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

[GimmeCake]

Dihydrogen monoxide is another word for water.

I think that was the joke.

 

[Hinotori]

Quote:
You prefer Hydrogen Oxide?

I'm STILL laughing at the California town that almost banned it.

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/4534017/n...cience/t/local-officials-nearly-fall-ho-hoax/

 

[The Yakima Kid]

I will never understand "gluten free" marketing. The industry has managed to make everybody afraid of gluten, even though it hasn't caused problems. All of a sudden people are blaming gluten for health problems, thinking they're allergic to it and buying the gluten free stuff. Makes me wonder what ingredient they're going to attack next.

Want to have some real fun? If you see someone buying a lot of gluten free stuff, ask them what gluten is.

Most of the time THEY DON'T EVEN KNOW!

 

[ChickyChickens]

No it's fine, she's all better now

Good!

 

[speckledhen]

Not that dumb, some species of avians feed their offspring crop milk. The hormone prolactin is involved just as in humans.

Not the same thing as "bird's milk candy".

Trust me, this woman knows nothing about crop milk, that would be even more foreign to her. She was talking suckling the chicks like a dog would pups.

 

[appps]

Early 50's. I'd heard of someone who sold a hen with chicks to a customer and the customer called her a week or two later, saying the chicks were dying because the hen apparently ran out of milk, what should she do. I was skeptical about the story until my SIL pretty much confirmed that people really are that clueless. I told her that no, chickens are not mammals, and showed her the chick starter, but now, come to think of it, I'm not sure she knows what a mammal is. :/ As we in the South say, well, bless her heart!

Maybe she'd watched one too many YouTube videos. Have you seen the one where the ducklings suckle on the surrogate cat mum. So amazing that they copied the kittens.

 

[speckledhen]

Maybe she'd watched one too many YouTube videos. Have you seen the one where the ducklings suckle on the surrogate cat mum. So amazing that they copied the kittens.

I bet she never watches youtube. This lady, though I love her to death, is very disconnected. Not that anyone has to look at youtube, but she knows about certain things and nothing about many natural things in life that to me are just normal, natural things. Ask her about her family being more self sufficient and she'd probably not know what you meant. Most folks who keep chickens at least get that. She is typical city folk who work long hours, are interested in a decorated home and vacations and have never grown a tomato in the backyard. There's just something about that to me in these times that is worrisome. I do worry about her and others of my family who think things will never change, never get worse other than they have to spend more for things.

 

[Double Kindness]

As a person with celiac disease who can't have gluten and spent 3.5 YEARS in the hospital every other week for a week vomiting violently, I have to be hyper aware of gluten, hidden gluten, cross contamination etc. It's a very serious debilitating disease.

All commercial chicken feed contains gluten. It is making me very sick again. Gluten is in wheat, barley & rye, which is in absolutely EVERYTHING!

I had to become a food nazi. Most gluten-free stuff sucks beyond belief to eat and is also insanely expensive. It's taken me 2 years to figure out how to properly cook gluten-free. I'm a foodie however, and very critical of everything I do.

There are mice on our property, I saw one in the barn last night when I was tending my chicks and injured slw. Suddenly my bf doesn't know what happened to the mouse traps.

The greyhound let another squirrel escape from the live trap again yesterday and the day before. Dang worthless greyhound. Today is a busy day, gotta go to the feed store and stock up on feed, and chicks ship Monday, so I need to prepare for them. Ahem. Yeah, that's the ruse anyways... there's a chicken swap at the feed store today, I'm thinking of bunnies and muscovy ducks. $600 in my pocket is a dangerous thing on this Saturday. Lol anyways, going to go talk to my fellow crazy chicken ppl, and see if my buddy will hook me up with some fresh raw goats milk to finish my dp meaties on and the bresse later.

After my greyhounds pass on, I think I need better livestock protection dogs.

 

[Blooie]

I will never understand "gluten free" marketing. The industry has managed to make everybody afraid of gluten, even though it hasn't caused problems. All of a sudden people are blaming gluten for health problems, thinking they're allergic to it and buying the gluten free stuff. Makes me wonder what ingredient they're going to attack next.

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.

 

[hennible]

Yeah, it is an allergy, but only 1 in 133 people have it. Yet everybody who reads "gluten is better for you" suddenly is allergic to gluten.

True, my sister is celiac and it is less common than today's diets would seem to want people to think. But as I understand it gluten is an indigestible protein that has been rising in concentration as we have been breeding wheat and genetically modifying wheat to be more productive. I believe the concentration of gluten in modern wheat is 10x that of the heirloom or ancient grain versions... Not sure what my point is