Dumbest Things People Have Said About Your Chickens/Eggs/Meat

[cassie]

does anyone know the article im talking about, an article about fingers in meat, bugs in food etc. i believe it was the article that started the USDA or maybe the FDA.

history was never my strong point.

i don't think they get used anymore, and im ashamed to admit it. we have at least 3 kindles in this house somewhere. i thought they were just electronic books, so i bought them for my kids - hoping they would read more. im technologically impared myself, I used to be all for it. even to the point of 2 technology based degrees. i use it now, but i maintain my independence from it at the same time.

Common Sense was written by Thomas Paine in 1776 and it challenged the authority of the British government and the monarchy. You may be thinking about The Jungle. It was a book by Upton Sinclair and was published in 1906. It was primarily about the plight and exploitation of new immigrants, but it did describe the deplorable conditions in the meatpacking industry in graphic detail. Upton Sinclair spent several weeks working incognito in meat packing plants in Chicago to gather information for his book. The publication of the book did a lot to spearhead the implementation of the pure food and drug laws.

 

[TREX]

Freak out beef eaters even more by telling them chicken poop is used as cattle feed! http://www.bae.ncsu.edu/programs/extension/publicat/wqwm/ag61.html Perhaps mention this as your co-workers are biting into a "clean" BigMac.

Lol!! They probably won't listen anyway. And to tell you the truth even after seeing that I will still eat beef. No worse than me eating catfish or tilapia who sometimes bottom feed on waste materials or even shrimp who scavenge all sorts of dead organic matter from the bottom of the ocean. By the time I eat them they have already converted the gross stuff into yummy food for me.

Pretty thoughtful of them.

 

[ChickenFox]

Freak out beef eaters even more by telling them chicken poop is used as cattle feed! http://www.bae.ncsu.edu/programs/extension/publicat/wqwm/ag61.html Perhaps mention this as your co-workers are biting into a "clean" BigMac.

Eww...this is why I'm going to raise my own beef when I can eventually afford my farm. Which will probably be in....25 years. lol For now I'll settle with my Backyard Flock.

 

[oldrooster]

Quote:
It's my understanding you don't want to know what shellfish eat because they are as bad or worse than catfish.

 

[loveourbirds]

for some reason I cant quote tonight - thank you for helping me "the jungle" is what I was looking for. I hated history in school, I wish I would have paid more attention now.

my ex mother in law wouldn't eat a big mac or any mcdonalds hamburger because of the fishing worm/night crawler rumor. she always ordered fish when we went there - just for fun one day, when she was half way though the sandwich I asked her if they used worms to catch the fish.

 

[CyndiChick]

Rofl
I made the mistake of telling my kids that hot dogs and baloney are made of @$$ and lips. ..To this day they won't touch them.

 

[TREX]

Or human reproduction, either.

HAHAHA!

Ain't that the truth!

 

[Hinotori]

Rofl
I made the mistake of telling my kids that hot dogs and baloney are made of @$$ and lips. ..To this day they won't touch them.

I don't like the taste of either of those, but I like sausages. If they have natural intestine casings I like them best. Nice snappy bites. My Uncle makes some of the best I've had.

We knew how stuff was made growing up because in my family they want you to understand where your food comes from. But then most of my family is farmers.

You would not believe how many people have eaten my beef soup and loved it. Then they get all weird when they find out that the stock base and meat in it is ox tail. A lot of them eventually get over it when they really think about it (why is the tail any worse than the butt that they eat?). Tongue and heart get people as well. It's muscle, you just have to know how to fix it right.

 

[loveourbirds]

Quote: do you have a good recipe for bulk sage/pepper sausage?

we have similar backgrounds, nothing better than homemade pickled pigs feet! Hormel isn't even close.

 

[Hinotori]

do you have a good recipe for bulk sage/pepper sausage?

we have similar backgrounds, nothing better than homemade pickled pigs feet! Hormel isn't even close.

I don't. I won't be able to talk to my Uncle until we go back down for a visit sometime this fall. We're talking about getting a whole pig this fall and I want to try making some different sausages so I've been looking around the web for suggestions. I'll try a bunch of them when the time comes. Lately I've been learning to smoke so that's been taking my time up. I've gotten the salmon down I think. Friend of ours tried the rub recipe and he couldn't get it to work, but I get the same results each time I do it.