Vegetarian chickens...What?!

[dacjohns]

Aren't hormones and antibiotics illegal anyway?

More marketing hype.

 

[greyfields]

Correct hormones are disallowed in chickens.

Of course, we are all overlooking something rather blatant and obvious. If Eggland's best (as an example) can gurantee their birds are eating that food, then they're locked in an egg battery (cages) somewhere. I cannot support that and will not buy industrial raised eggs.

 

[DuckyBoys]

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Pork companies do the same thing.

I was out inspecting one the other day and as we roll up the manager proceeds to tell me this one is "vegetarian feed" only. I was like huh? Why bother? No vegetarian is going to eat these pigs. But I dunno - there must be soem demand for it or they wouldn't do it.

They are a good farm and they try hard, so I can't really fault them.

 

[Buster]

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Pork companies do the same thing.

I was out inspecting one the other day and as we roll up the manager proceeds to tell me this one is "vegetarian feed" only. I was like huh? Why bother? No vegetarian is going to eat these pigs. But I dunno - there must be soem demand for it or they wouldn't do it.

They are a good farm and they try hard, so I can't really fault them.

Many people don't feed their pigs meat. One reason, maybe a myth, I've heard is that it makes them mean- they could come looking at you for a meal. I don't know for sure, but I've heard it enough times that I don't feed my pig meat either.

 

[chickenlady]

I sent an email to Egglands Best. I asked them how they keep their chickens. We'll see what they say, if they even respond.

 

[farmgirlie1031]

Quote: They hear about farms and think, "how quaint", but never pause to think about the fact that the food they buy in the store was grown by a farmer somewhere. I've even heard someone say "I'd never drink milk from a cow, I only drink milk from the store."

I know. It still makes me sick though.

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I went to a magnet high school and knew all about where are food comes from but we went on a trip to a dairy farm in Colorado and the teacher just making a joke when we saw a brown and white cow said and that's where chocolate milk comes from. I knew it was a joke but one of the students did not understand and thought it was true! As a high school student! He even asked where the pink and white strawberry milk cows were at because he didn't see any. SAd! Another student awnsered the grocery store when asked where hamburger comes from! I could not believe my ears. We were in high school yet some of the students were what I thought at that time very "STUPID" I've grown up and later realized they just are never taught this stuff in schools anymore.

 

[dacjohns]

Checked my old feed bag labels. Found out I feed my chickens "porcine meat and bone meal". No more Rural King feed.

 

[dacjohns]

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[dacjohns]

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Found out this isn't true.

 

[ravenfeathers]

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Found out this isn't true.

it was true until very recently, then. as far as i knew, that was standard US policy because chicken waste and chicken slaughter waste is frequently fed to cattle on feedlots. if you feed BSE-infected meats to chickens, then feed the chickens back to cattle, you're completing a viral circle and letting BSE into feedlots through an odd vector.