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

[ronott1]

I was cracking eggs for a cake, into a black cup so that i could pick out a shell if one fell in... My aunt by marriage (who is dirty minded) points to the suspension cords of the yolk and says "eww aren't you going to dig that out? Thats rooster sperm, you might as well be bobbing on the rooster if you put that in your cake!" i havent invited her to my house since.
Then there was this snooty couple that came to look at a horse trailer i was selling. Both claimed to have grown up on a farm. The girl goes "oh my gawwwddd like i didnt know chickens and horses could live on the same farm" and then giggled i said " ummm yea they funny that way"
People kill me with their ignorance of animals

Horses and chickens can't live on the same Farm! I love it!

 

[8GeeseALaying]

Id like to see her idea of a farm lol

 

[8GeeseALaying]

Remembered another good one...
My neighbor moved here from detroit born and raised there in the city and now lives here in WV beside me. She came beating my door one day like it was an emergency. When i went out to her she starts yelling at me about my rooster. She said " i just saw your rooster brutally beating your chicken" i said "ok what exactly did he do" she said " he ran over to it drug his wing on the ground threatening it then grabbed the back of its neck stood on its back and shook it! You need to do something that thing is abusing the others" i started laughing and said "they are mating" she was like "oh why is he so rough?" i was like "maybe she likes it rough" and went went back inside.
Shes not too bright anyways she acts like an old stoner lol

 

[jnntefend]

No I haven't but we don't eat fast food anymore haven't had a drive-thru anything in over 3 years now. Take it back did have fries that I was craving and spent the rest of the day in the restroom. Cured. Even restaurant food tastes different than home cooked not sure what they do to it but we don't do that much either. I don't trust that hands and foods are being washed as they should be won't even eat things brought to church for bake sales many have cats and most people allow their cats to walk on counters and tables, so I opt out.

I think something happens to your body when you start eating good food, and the bad stuff starts making you sick like this. Talk about a warning sign!

 

[jnntefend]

Hmm not motivated enough to go check those claims about margarine on snopes but it really does have the ring of a piece that may have exaggerated the truth a little

That said we don't eat margarine here either. I figure by the time you add a chemical to make it a solid and another to make it yellow and another to make it taste good there is no way it can be better for you than something with no additives.

I stopped eating margarine one day without doing any research, because... I was making a treat for some friends, and melted some margarine to put on my popcorn, as I had done before with butter. Butter floats on top of popped popcorn kernels, causing very little shrinkage, and no watery texture. With the margarine, I might as well have poured flavored water over it. The popcorn shrank up and got soggy and inedible. I figured that wasn't natural.

 

[jnntefend]

My daughter has Autism, and in the beginning, we researched all kinds of stuff about foods and additives. Some of the information gleaned was scary, to say the least. i will always stick to what my grandmother taught me as a kid........"anything in excess is bad for you, if you stick to the real stuff, in moderation (meaning butter, olive oil, cheese, etc.), you will be healthy, nutrition wise". THE KEY: MODERATION
Now I have been reading reports about how horrible canola oil is for you, neurologically, and the FDA has been pushing it for years because it is- according to FDA studies- supposed to be better for you...............
The FDA is made up of representatives of food manufacturers.........That's all I'm saying

Absolutely. Good post. Reminds me of the book "In Defense of Food"

 

[jnntefend]

I was cracking eggs for a cake, into a black cup so that i could pick out a shell if one fell in... My aunt by marriage (who is dirty minded) points to the suspension cords of the yolk and says "eww aren't you going to dig that out? Thats rooster sperm, you might as well be bobbing on the rooster if you put that in your cake!" i havent invited her to my house since.
Then there was this snooty couple that came to look at a horse trailer i was selling. Both claimed to have grown up on a farm. The girl goes "oh my gawwwddd like i didnt know chickens and horses could live on the same farm" and then giggled i said " ummm yea they funny that way"
People kill me with their ignorance of animals

LOL. Great post.

And my apologies, folks for continuing the off-topicness.

 

[mfpif16]

I had two of my neighbors (8th grade girls)over today to meet my chickens for the first time.
Me: (pick up my bantam, Popcorn)
Them: She let's you pick her up!?!
Then I asked if they wanted to pet her, and they both hurriedly said no and stayed as far away as possible. It's like they thought she would bite them or something.

 

[7 Biddies]

The only thing that comes close to oil companies doing anything wrong is the olive oil companies selling oil-just like the oil in margarine--instead of actual olive oil because the Italian mafia controls he trade in olive oil.

Guess I need to buy Greek or Spanish EVOO from now on. Jeez!

 

[Lifestudent]

This is what I found on margarine:

Pass The Butter... Please.
This is interesting...
Margarine was originally manufactured to fatten turkeys. When it killed the turkeys, the people who had put all the money into the research wanted a payback so they put their heads together to figure out what to do with this product to get their money back.
It was a white substance with no food appeal so they added the yellow coloring and sold it to people to use in place of butter. How do you like it? They have come out with some clever new flavorings..
DO YOU KNOW.. The difference between margarine and butter?
Read on to the end...gets very interesting!
Both have the same amount of calories.
Butter is slightly higher in saturated fats at 8 grams; compared to 5 grams for margarine.
Eating margarine can increase heart disease in women by 53% over eating the same amount of butter, according to a recent Harvard Medical Study.
Eating butter increases the absorption of many other nutrients in other foods.
Butter has many nutritional benefits where margarine has a few and only because they are added!
Butter tastes much better than margarine and it can enhance the flavors of other foods.
Butter has been around for centuries where margarine has been around for less than 100 years .

And now, for Margarine..
Very High in Trans fatty acids.
Triples risk of coronary heart disease.
Increases total cholesterol and LDL (this is the bad cholesterol) and lowers HDL cholesterol, (the good cholesterol)
Increases the risk of cancers up to five times..
Lowers quality of breast milk.
Decreases immune response.
Decreases insulin response.
And here's the most disturbing fact.... HERE IS THE PART THAT IS VERY INTERESTING!
Margarine is but ONE MOLECULE away from being PLASTIC... and shares 27 ingredients with PAINT
These facts alone were enough to have me avoiding margarine for life and anything else that is hydrogenated (this means hydrogen is added, changing the molecular structure of the substance).
You can try this yourself:
Purchase a tub of margarine and leave it open in your garage or shaded area. Within a couple of days you will notice a couple of things:
* no flies, not even those pesky fruit flies will go near it (that should tell you something)
* it does not rot or smell differently because it has no nutritional value ; nothing will grow on it. Even those teeny weeny microorganisms will not a find a home to grow. Why? Because it is nearly plastic . Would you melt your Tupperware and spread that on your toast?
# # #
Dr. Gourmet Says...

There was a time when nutritionists and dieticians recommended avoiding butter and using margarine because of the amount of saturated fat in butter. We know now that while too much saturated fat can promote heart disease, it is trans-fats that are far more of a problem. While these types of fats do occur in nature, they do only in small amounts. Unfortunately, for a long time many products that were produced were very high in trans-fats.
The reason for this is that when margarine and vegetable shortening are created by hydrogenating oils, trans-fats are created in the process. Those trans-fats were found in a wide variety of foods and have probably been a greater promoter of heart disease than has butter or other saturated fats.
These days more and more foods contain less and less trans-fats, including margarines. The "spreads" that are on the market now are lower fat versions of margarine and contain very little trans-fats. Smart Balance is a good example of this.
The email you received is another of those urban myths. Anytime you receive such silliness in your email box, you should be suspect. For the best answers I turn to snopes.com. Click through to this link for the research on your email: http://www.snopes.com/food/warnings/butter.asp
Thanks for writing,
Timothy S. Harlan, M.D.
Dr. Gourmet

This has been debunked as an urban myth.
http://www.hoax-slayer.com/margarine-butter.shtml