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

[speckledhen]

My chickens' water comes from a rain barrel and then fed through a water hose. Still better than chlorinated city water.

Absolutely. We have fabulous well water, no chlorine here.

 

[Hinotori]

Mom is allergic to wheat. Harvest time about kills her. She doesn't eat most of the gluten free stuff because it's junk and just empty carb calories.

She also can't eat store bought eggs. Something to do with how they wash them we think. She'll be sick within five minutes. She used to think it was eggs themselves. Then she tried a bite of the eggs I brought just to taste them and expecting to get sick. It didn't happen. Now every time I visit I bring all the eggs I can and she hoardes them.

 

[mrballance]

Absolutely. We have fabulous well water, no chlorine here.

I like Chorine water. It's better for there teeth

 

[hennible]

Do you mean fluoride?

I like Chorine water. It's better for there teeth

 

[speckledhen]

I think you meant fluoride, though there is some evidence that fluoride is a problem for the thyroid and not great in the huge quantities we're getting it in. But, then, of course, chickens have no teeth, so they need neither fluoride nor chlorine.

 

[rancher hicks]

I wonder how folks survive. I should be dead instead of thriving and being active in my 60s. Everything I eat, drink, breathe, wear, and do is designed to kill me, I guess. Back in the day folks made their own bread. Gluten was the stuff that you tried to get to develop when you kneaded it. There is a segment of the population that should avoid gluten - folks with ciliac disease and such - but for most folks gluten is totally harmless. Yet somehow someone came up with scientific evidence that gluten kills even healthy people and a new market to promote "healthier" foods was born. A box of regular corn flakes - $4.00. A box of gluten free corn flakes - $5.49.

So if people never eat gluten, fats, salts, sugar, high fructose corn syrup, drink carbonated beverages, flavored waters, never breathe a molecule of pollution, and avoid all of the things they are told to avoid, can they live forever? That's the implication. "If you eat _____________ you will die from it." That implies that you'll live forever if you stick to artificial guidelines. Look around next time you're at the grocery store, not at the products but at the people. How many old codgers like me do you see? Quite a few, I'm betting. Those folks played in the gutters after it rained. They played with toys that had small parts. They slept in wooden cribs that had been passed down from the kids before them. They rode in cars without seat belts and air bags, and cars that didn't tell you that you were about to be in an accident and applied the brakes for you. They ate heavily marbled beef, pork, and made the food dollar stretch with organ meats. As babies they were eating cereals at 3 weeks old, strained foods by 2 months old, and cow's milk instead of formula by 6 months, rather than living on nothing but formula or breast milk until after a year old. Food allergies in children were extremely rare. Those old folks used pesticides on their gardens for a bigger harvest. They ate homemade bread with lots of gluten and they slathered it with fatty butter. They weren't terrified of home canning and pressure cookers. They didn't panic over preservatives added to some foods because that made lots of food safer to store for longer periods. Some of them even smoked cigarettes or smelly old cigars. They lived through the Great Depression on next to nothing, eating things that would make the food police come uncorked. And they survived. They are still walking around among you today - a little frailer, a little worn around the edges, but still viable and loved family members.

I admit that there are more cases of things like diabetes, heart disease and cancers today than there once were. But I wonder, I really wonder, how much of that increase is because the bodies that were fueled with fats and sugars used to work so hard at physical labor that those foods were burned off quicker and didn't just sit in our bodies, accumulating. Have we overprotected our systems so much that now they simply can't handle the diets that once made us strong and helped us thrive? Too much of anything can be bad.....and that goes for putting too much credence into what "experts" tell us we should do to keep from dying. Please stop informing me that there are chemicals in stuff that I eat. If you were to find a blade of grass in an untouched wilderness and give it to a scientist for examination, guess what he'd find? Chemicals. Everything is made up of chemicals. But they pick the scariest ones to warn us about, and we blindly follow. Even health food junkies die eventually. Me? I'd rather enjoy a home made chocolate cupcake (made with regular flour, cocoa powder, sugar and eggs) with my grandchildren than just about anything else I can think of. I kinda like to think that that's what I'm supposed to be doing with my life instead of spending it reading labels and watching for signs of poisoning.

How does that tie in with the dumbest thing people have said about my backyard chickens? When offered a dozen eggs yesterday, my neighbor replied, "No, thanks. I just have this thing about eating eggs that didn't come from a store.......I'm just not sure what's in the ones from your chickens." Well, I'll tell ya, Vickie - I inject mine with gluten, MSG, high fructose corn syrup, sodium, and xanthum gum. <sigh> People are running scared. And it's pretty bad when we are so scared of food that unless folks can read a label and see what evil stuff might be hiding in there they won't touch it.

Well I'll play devils advocate. Folks ate less and did more. We were skinny cuz we didn't eat like we do today.

I'm ashamed to say I ate two helpings of DW's Beef Stroganagh (whatever) a little salad, a Nutty bar and jello for dinner.

Meals were much smaller back in the day. Folks did more for themselves back in the day. Not like now. You hire someone to clean your carpeting, wash your car.

I just read an article that inspite of all the safety things we have, injuries to children has NOT decreased.

However folks do live longer than back in the day too. Of course I'm not sure how much of what they do is really living. Too I just found out my great, great, great grandfather died at 62 of a cerebraly hemmorage but his wife lived til she was 85. Though the closer I get to 85 the younger it seems.

I really need to get off my bum and do more. My days begin late and end early.

How many breaks did YOU take today?

So what to do?

Oh and I forgot. FOLKS HAD MORE KIDS BACK IN THE DAY TOO!

 

[ChaoSS]

"WoodenCoyote"
-Thank you! He widdled on my friend's kitchen cabinets in an attempt to woo her lady cat. It didn't work.-

Lol! Too funny. Cats are priceless.

I also must say to all the hunters on here, that hunting is wonderful way to get food on the table. Before I was born it was how my family survived. And what's better, taking a mature wild animal who lived well and wild or eating a critter who was caged in back of the grocery store.....
Omg meat growing in the grocery store I will never get over that! If anyone sees a steak tree let me know.

My God what do they teach kids in schools these days?

You won't be seeing steak trees because they are only grown inside the freezers. The trees are native to the arctic and Antarctic regions (depending on which cut you need) where the meat won't spoil as it grows.

I swear, the ignorance done people display on here....

 

[Howlet]

I like Chorine water. It's better for there teeth

Chickens dont have teeth.....

 

[hennible]

My God what do they teach kids in schools these days?

You won't be seeing steak trees because they are only grown inside the freezers. The trees are native to the arctic and Antarctic regions (depending on which cut you need) where the meat won't spoil as it grows.

I swear, the ignorance done people display on here....

That's why I have never seen a steak tree, not quite fat enough north.

 

[hennible]

Far not fat
Arg