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

[Crickett]

As someone stated a while back, if confronted with my carnivorous choices, at least my food has a fighting chance and can run away. Plants don't have that option!

JK!

 

[Kusanar]

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So diabetics need a sugar spike if they choose (or need to) eat out? Also are people so ignorant on calorie counts that they cannot figure out if they eat a large hamburger (if that is what you are implying the kind of burger they are eating) that they cannot figure out to keep from gaining weight they need to remove calories from their diet elsewhere or exercise more to off set those additional calories? Or am I just plain stupid?
My BF is diabetic and generally he gets unsweetened tea with his meals when we eat out. However, technically, a diabetic should not be eating the burger bun or the large fry in the above example, not to say that my bf doesn't, but he shouldn't. Both of those are quickly turned into suger as they get digested and will cause sugar spikes.

Interesting fact, your body reacts the same way to fake sugar as it does to real sugar, it can actually cause you to have LOW blood sugar (does it to me) because your body senses "sugar" and pumps in extra insulin to counteract it. I only drink sugary things or things that have flavor on their own without fake sweeteners. Another interesting fact, at least one of the mainstream commercial sweeteners was originally developed as a insecticide and then they found out it was sweet and didn't cause any immediate health effects (cancer a few years down the line didn't bother them apparently), I actually tried it out, I had a bunch of ants getting in the insulation in the fridge in the barn and messing stuff up, so I got a few packets of fake sweetener from work (break room has it in a machine for free) and poured it on the line of ants as they ran back and forth, 1st day or 2 they were still happily carting the stuff back to the nest, but the numbers started going down dramatically after that. I didn't want to use a "poison" because my dog and the barn cat go in there and the effects of eating fake sugar shouldn't be as great for the animals as eating ant bait...

 

[vehve]

Yeah, aspartame should work like that. Apparently it works better as a water solution.

 

[lazy gardener]

Interesting, what kind of "sweetener" did you use? IMO, a well controlled diabetic can eat the same balanced diet we all enjoy, including the hamburger bun, as well as that occasional piece of birthday cake. It depends on whether they are a type I or type II diabetic, and what they are using to control their blood sugars. And how well they understand how much insulin they need to cover a certain amount of carbohydrates, and understand how fats, exercise, and glycemic index figures into blood sugar regulation. Diabetic care and education has come a long way in the last 20 years.

 

[Kusanar]

Interesting, what kind of "sweetener" did you use? IMO, a well controlled diabetic can eat the same balanced diet we all enjoy, including the hamburger bun, as well as that occasional piece of birthday cake. It depends on whether they are a type I or type II diabetic, and what they are using to control their blood sugars. And how well they understand how much insulin they need to cover a certain amount of carbohydrates, and understand how fats, exercise, and glycemic index figures into blood sugar regulation. Diabetic care and education has come a long way in the last 20 years.

Lol, no one including the DR's can figure out what to do with my bf's blood sugar levels. I'm not sure what kind of sweetner it was, it's in a machine and it has 3 buttons, sugar, sweetner, and creamer, I'm betting it's the stuff in the yellow packet, that's the standard these days for what people use...

Zach can go to sleep with his sugar in the 90's, wake up with it 250 or higher, just got a job where he was on his feet walking all day and had to quit because his sugar (with all meds as prescribed by Dr plus extra insulin) spiked to over 350 and his vision whited out and he started throwing up, after the 2nd time of that he had to quit his job to try not to literally kill himself at work... Now he's unemployed and trying to find another job but scared to get one with any sort of physical activity.

 

[7 Biddies]

My BF is diabetic and generally he gets unsweetened tea with his meals when we eat out. However, technically, a diabetic should not be eating the burger bun or the large fry in the above example, not to say that my bf doesn't, but he shouldn't. Both of those are quickly turned into suger as they get digested and will cause sugar spikes.

Interesting fact, your body reacts the same way to fake sugar as it does to real sugar, it can actually cause you to have LOW blood sugar (does it to me) because your body senses "sugar" and pumps in extra insulin to counteract it. I only drink sugary things or things that have flavor on their own without fake sweeteners. Another interesting fact, at least one of the mainstream commercial sweeteners was originally developed as a insecticide and then they found out it was sweet and didn't cause any immediate health effects (cancer a few years down the line didn't bother them apparently), I actually tried it out, I had a bunch of ants getting in the insulation in the fridge in the barn and messing stuff up, so I got a few packets of fake sweetener from work (break room has it in a machine for free) and poured it on the line of ants as they ran back and forth, 1st day or 2 they were still happily carting the stuff back to the nest, but the numbers started going down dramatically after that. I didn't want to use a "poison" because my dog and the barn cat go in there and the effects of eating fake sugar shouldn't be as great for the animals as eating ant bait...

What color packet?? Enquiring minds want to know!!

 

[Blooie]

My son is diabetic. When I first noticed it he was over here picking up his daughter late one evening. She was staying at Gramma's because Kenny wasn't feeling well at all and Jenny was still at work. He could barely wake up. As he walked past me I smelled nail polish remover. I got my meter down and demanded he test. It wouldn't read. I wanted to take him in right then but he argued me out of it.....mistake. I told him to come over in the morning and test before he ate anything. He did. Still didn't read.

Fast forward to the ER.....sugar was off the chart. They started treating him immediately. After he was stabilized the doctor told us that he was shutting down - and that my noticing that smell had saved his life. His response? "Ah, geez! Don't tell her that!"

After a week of diabetic education and medication instructions, he went back to work. Sugars went through the roof again. Same old sickness came over him. Back into the ER, where he was told he'd have to go on insulin injections until he was better. They didn't manage to put two and two together but I did when he got home from work one evening and tested at 390 after a snack of ham rollups with cheese. I told him he needed to start wearing a mask and long sleeves if he wanted to keep working to support his family. His job? He filled and move totes and railroad cars at a sugar factory. Yep....he wasn't eating anymore foods with sugars and the wrong carbs - he was inhaling it at Western Sugar and it was all over his skin. I figured it out when he came over to pick up Katie after work and we were sitting around talking while his 2 year old daughter licked his arms, which were coated with crystalized sugar. Can you say DUH????

 

[N F C]

Wow, Blooie, good job on picking up what was going on! So is your son still working there or did he find something else?

 

[Blooie]

Wow, Blooie, good job on picking up what was going on! So is your son still working there or did he find something else?

Nope, he's still there. Works watchman during the summer and then works the sugar campaign in the fall, winter and early spring. That incident was 4 years ago. He just watches his exposure very carefully and monitors his sugars more often than most people do. He's got some apps in at a couple of other places this year - not sure he wants to do campaign again.

 

[Double Kindness]

Oh wow that's wild!!

Someone said how can you eat those cute chickens you're raising? I can only eat organic grocery store chicken.

Well, I don’t want chlorine bleach or ammonia, so I decided to raise my own happy healthy chickens in the sunshine to eat. Why wouldn't I eat something I raised?

Oh don't eat black meat chickens! Why not?? Pppfftt