"Old-hen meat fed to pets and schoolkids"

[Rosalind]

Good heavens, where do people think McNuggets come from? The McNugget tree?

The article cites higher bacterial contamination rates as a concern. In that case, children should not be eating any ground meat whatsoever, as the grinding process is known to spread contamination significantly.

I agree with Boyd, I'd rather that people not eat battery chicken in general, but if you're going to eat that sort of thing voluntarily, you can't very well complain about quality. As near as I can tell, cafeteria food has been pretty awful since the invention of the school system, anyone who grew up eating "mutilated monkey meat" and "bug juice" should not be at all surprised.

Although I gotta admit to being slightly surprised that it is actual chicken. Some of the school lunches I ate, I was pretty sure used a combination of cockroach, mealworm and rat as a protein source. On the whole, sounds like school lunches have been getting better since I was a kid!

 

[Tendu]

I like the old meat. It has character enough to stand up to a mole. Plus it can take a yogurt marinade without dissolving.

 

[Cara]

Its been ALIVE longer, not DEAD longer! What's the fuss about?

 

[rirluvr]

mmmmm... chicken soup sounds delicious right now. But my girls are only 4 months old, they have quite a few years of laying before they bless me with soup.

 

[Boyd]

just made some home made soup from a 6lb'er ...... close to 4 gallons of soup total. Half in the freezer, the kids devoured the other 1/2

 

[theOEGBman]

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I had to quote this, that's just amazing! I love that.

 

[mjdtexan]

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¿Battery birds? ¿Que es battery bird?

 

[Boyd]

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¿Battery birds? ¿Que es battery bird?

battery birds live in cages with about 6 birds in 3 square foot of space. Their feces are collected on conveyor belts as it falls through the wire, the eggs hit the wire and roll out to a separate conveyor belt and the feed is also fed via gravity conveyor belt. Water is gravity. They have no quality of life.

 

[saddina]

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¿Battery birds? ¿Que es battery bird?

battery birds live in cages with about 6 birds in 3 square foot of space. Their feces are collected on conveyor belts as it falls through the wire, the eggs hit the wire and roll out to a separate conveyor belt and the feed is also fed via gravity conveyor belt. Water is gravity. They have no quality of life.

That dirty jobs episode where he's mucking out a battery barn was on last night. It's why I decided to raise my own eggs. Just used 32 quail eggs in my holiday baking.

 

[greenfamilyfarms]

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Exactly.