Interesting article regarding commercially raised meat chickens in US

[Buster52]

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Sprinkle some chlorine on your eggs at your next breakfast and get back to me on that.

 

[CARS]

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Sprinkle some chlorine on your eggs at your next breakfast and get back to me on that.

Why the attitude??? I was simply asking if there is a similarity with what I do and they do.

 

[Neil Grassbaugh]

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Tough to do. Chlorine is gas.

 

[bigredfeather]

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They can't. The FDA has established it's the only way to control the contamination that occurs in the mechanical processing system. It is really sickening to think about a) the amount of fecal matter that comes in direct contact w/ the meat we eat during large facility processing, and b) that they have to use a chemical like chlorine to eliminate the contamination. I first read about this in Pastured Poultry for Profits. It made me sick to my stomach thinking about how many pounds of chicken I have eaten that has gone thru this process.

I'm glad I raise my own now.

 

[Buster52]

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Tough to do. Chlorine is gas.

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[Brunty_Farms]

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Sprinkle some chlorine on your eggs at your next breakfast and get back to me on that.

Why the attitude??? I was simply asking if there is a similarity with what I do and they do.

Your simply asking the difference... I don't see the problem.....

It's actually very complicated and your question would be bested answered by somebody in the pool industry or someone that is in a chemistry field. But I will do the best I can if I confuse you I'm sorry as it's hard to explain... but from what I remember from Adv. Chem....

Chlorine in nature doesn't typically occur but when it does it's a yellowish gas. Chlorine is a manufactured substance produced through electrolysis....

Chlorine is a byproduct of saltwater... however it's not present in the brine that most people use in their homes. Salt (NaCl) is where the chlorine is coming from... salt is not dangerous to us Chlorine is. The process to make Chlorine is called electrolysis (sp?) which is the process of taking a compound and breaking it down into it's elements (sodium and Chlorine in this case). The way this is done.... Salt (NaCl) is mixed with water and an electrical current is passed through the water. Chemically it does things on a molecular level... which I forget but if you do some research you will probably find enough to put together an idea of how it works. It basically separates the two elements from the compound...

Chlorine is tough product... however like anything else just because it's bad for us doesn't mean the government is going to protect us. It's much safer to drink chlorinated water than contaminated water. The mindset behind government is "we will keep it on the DL and tell people moderate amounts are ok" but honestly it's the lesser of two evils. There are alternatives to chlorine but they aren't as cheap and readily available as chlorine... It's easy to manufacture... and it's cheap... and it's better for you than drinking contaminated water.

Research is finding out that chlorine is having lasting effects on people.

This is where this topic gets very interesting. Many people argue that chlorine is basically safe-that it breaks down into harmless salt and water. Well, that's true-in a laboratory test tube under very controlled conditions. The real issue is not just how toxic chlorine itself is but how the unintended byproducts of chlorine (organochlorines and dioxins) remain in the environment. They are persistent in the environment; they do not break down readily and therefore bio-accumulate.​

 

[Brunty_Farms]

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Tough to do. Chlorine is gas.

http://spasandmore.com/catalog/chem...owder-granules-for-hot-tubs-and-spas-770.html

Nice try... but it's two totally different things... You both are right... Your product is man made... his is natural...

 

[CARS]

Thanks Jeff. Good explanation!!!

 

[Buster52]

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http://spasandmore.com/catalog/chem...owder-granules-for-hot-tubs-and-spas-770.html

Nice try... but it's two totally different things... You both are right... Your product is man made... his is natural...

Which negates my point how, exactly?

 

[Neil Grassbaugh]

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Nice try... but it's two totally different things... You both are right... Your product is man made... his is natural...

Which negates my point how, exactly?

This from Wikipedia is probably your pool product-
"Calcium hypochlorite is a chemical compound with formula Ca(ClO)2. It is widely used for water treatment and as a bleaching agent (bleaching powder). This chemical is considered to be relatively stable and has greater available chlorine than sodium hypochlorite (liquid bleach)." The sales blurb referring to Chlorine is to make the uneducated understand the product enough to make them function in a useful way and not be so burdensome on society.

This from Wikipedia is bleach-
"Sodium hypochlorite is a chemical compound with the formula NaOCl. Sodium hypochlorite solution, commonly known as bleach, is frequently used as a disinfectant or a bleaching agent."

This is also from Wikipedia-
"Sodium chloride, also known as salt, common salt, table salt, or halite, is an ionic compound with the formula NaCl. Sodium chloride is the salt most responsible for the salinity of the ocean and of the extracellular fluid of many multicellular organisms. As the major ingredient in edible salt, it is commonly used as a condiment and food preservative."

Sprinkle some of that on your eggs.

Your reasoning would also make you want us to believe that since some 70% of the human body is water, which contains Hydrogen (H2O), every time we get near a flame it should blow our asses off the planet just like a Saturn 5 Rocket. Or maybe a little climax like the Hindenburg. After all Hydrogen is Hydrogen and Chlorine is Chlorine- right?

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