Why are People So Paranoid?

[TattooedChicks]

We're all dirty, filthy, smelly chicken touchers and we like it that way. Excuse me while I go smooch all my icky birdies so I can get all the salmonella I want.

 

[BantyChooks]

They're all just fear mongers. If we don't question what they say and search for truth they'll be able to spoon feed us all sorts of crazyness in the future and we will just go along with it like lemmings off a cliff.

Uh oh. Think my tin foil hat is showing

You're just a level 1 crazy. Talk to me when it's a lead hat.

 

[sannabelle]

Bahahahaha!!!

 

[rjohns39]

Folks,

I stumbled across this thread bounced around and read a few posts, then went back to page 1 and read them all. So sorry for crashing in on your thread. I had to take a break because its hard to type when you're laughing as I was....

On the serious side...
There are bad bugs and good bugs all around us--but people who insist on living an antiseptic lifestyle deprive their immune systems of what it needs to build a healthy and strong body--they do it because they believe the hype. There have been a number of studies as this group has already pointed out that demonstrate this fact. Another fact is that our eggs, milk and our meat is cleaner and more nutritious than anything you can buy in the supermarket. I had a friend who bought a tysons and a purdue chicken and sent them to the lab along with his. The whole report is pretty long but lets just look at fecal contamination. His birds 333ppm, the others were over 1400ppm and OMG he processes his birds out doors. Let's talk about open air processing... If a fly happens to land on a chicken, it is adulterated. However, if you have a USDA inspected facility, then fly traps are sufficient and even if the birds are covered in flies, its ok.

On the lighter side...
We're all bio-terrorists! We let our birds covet with wild birds... Have you ever heard of avian flue? That said I'm going to recap a story I think I read here, but could have been somewhere else. A lady was selling brown eggs to a group of concerned college students... One day they discovered the the egg came out the same vent as the poop. Never mind there are two paths to the exit. They decided they could no longer buy her eggs cause they were brown and chickens who lay white eggs have two different exits. Seriously... College students?????

Thanks for lighting up my evening

 

[Frazzemrat1]

Honestly, it just amazes me how the general public is so disconnected from their food. It's innocent if it comes prepackaged on styrophome wrapped in cellophane. But talk about butchering your own animal, be it chicken, cow, sheep, pig or goat, and people lose their collective minds. It's like i said I was planning a day of fun, kicking puppies and kittens.

 

[sannabelle]

Bahahaha. I love it!!!! And you are more than welcome here!!!

 

[rjohns39]

Honestly, it just amazes me how the general public is so disconnected from their food. It's innocent if it comes prepackaged on styrophome wrapped in cellophane. But talk about butchering your own animal, be it chicken, cow, sheep, pig or goat, and people lose their collective minds. It's like i said I was planning a day of fun, kicking puppies and kittens.

I have a tractor guy (crazy as it sounds I don't have one yet), but he's in his late 20s, early 30s. When I finished processing a batch of CXs I gave him a whole bird. The look on his face was priceless... He had no idea what to do with a whole chicken and no idea how to turn it into things like thighs, drumsticks, breasts, etc. I may be showing my age here--but when I was growing up, you couldn't buy a cutup chicken... If you wanted one you had to sweet talk the butcher... Oh and I think he charged me a dime to do the work.

 

[BantyChooks]

Honestly, it just amazes me how the general public is so disconnected from their food. It's innocent if it comes prepackaged on styrophome wrapped in cellophane. But talk about butchering your own animal, be it chicken, cow, sheep, pig or goat, and people lose their collective minds. It's like i said I was planning a day of fun, kicking puppies and kittens.

That's why I love my town. I'm fairly sure there are few to none that haven't killed an animal themselves. Nobody gets horrified like that.

 

[Frazzemrat1]

That's why I love my town. I'm fairly sure there are few to none that haven't killed an animal themselves. Nobody gets horrified like that.

See, a the thing for me... I didn't grow up on a farm, I was mostly in suburbia, but the couple of times we lived in the country made a huge impression on me, and I love the lack of people and my few neighbors... wish I was deeper in than I am, but you work with what you get. This is my first time owning livestock, and I love my girls, but everyone I Work with knew that if any of them were cockerels they were going in the freezer. Some were really horrified by that. But I work at the largest builder of submarines in the world, and there are a lot of people. And most of them are city kids.

 

[BantyChooks]

See, a the thing for me... I didn't grow up on a farm, I was mostly in suburbia, but the couple of times we lived in the country made a huge impression on me, and I love the lack of people and my few neighbors... wish I was deeper in than I am, but you work with what you get. This is my first time owning livestock, and I love my girls, but everyone I Oakes with knew that if any of them were cockerels they were going in the freezer. Some were really horrified by that. But I work at the largest builder of submarines in the world, and there are a lot of people. And most of them are city kids.

I do have to admit I get a near childish glee from scaring the wussy city people that come here.