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are chickens killed for human consumption?
At what age...
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Pretty young, I believe.
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Well, I'm going to refrain from eating any chicken, unless I know where it came from, for a couple months.
http://www.cnn.com/2007/HEALTH/05/18/pet.food.poultry/index.html
http://www.cnn.com/2007/HEALTH/05/18/pet.food.poultry/index.html
mori...that's insane (the releasing of known contaminated animals into the food supply, when we already know what happens to pets who eat melamine)
BTW how impossible would it have been for the contaminated gluten not to have made it into the human food chain directly ?
BTW how impossible would it have been for the contaminated gluten not to have made it into the human food chain directly ?
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Dilution is the solution!
According to the book Omnivores Dilemma by Michael Pollan that I'm reading... 6-8 weeks of age. Chicken is the most efficient means of turning corn into protein for human consumption. I highly suggest people read it, it's a really factually cool book.
http://www.amazon.com/Omnivores-Dilemma-Natural-History-Meals/dp/1594200823
http://www.amazon.com/Omnivores-Dilemma-Natural-History-Meals/dp/1594200823
Is it true that chickens eat with their pecker
#@$%! Chinese again. Why don't our pols get some stones and just ban the shiite from import?????
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It's just business, Pablo!
Pablo,
I've read that it might even be intentional, rather than accidental to increase the nitrogen(?) content to appear a more highly refined product than it really is.
It's got parallels down here when they decided to use cheaper tests for meat pies, testing total nitrogen to infer a protein level. Big pie companies started mixing blood in with the gravy to get the nitrogen up, so they could cut back on the meat.
I've read that it might even be intentional, rather than accidental to increase the nitrogen(?) content to appear a more highly refined product than it really is.
It's got parallels down here when they decided to use cheaper tests for meat pies, testing total nitrogen to infer a protein level. Big pie companies started mixing blood in with the gravy to get the nitrogen up, so they could cut back on the meat.
There is NO doubt about it. The Chinese are saying so.
About 45-50 days
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Let's hope that most of that questionable poultry is snatched up by discount supermarket chains and fast food "restaurants." 80,000 chickens will be consumed quickly.
I was wondering why my melamine dinner plate tasted like chicken...
We knew a couple who raised chickens from hatchlings for poultry giant Perdue. Five times a year Perdue trucks would pick up the chicks for slaughter from each specialized barn. Later the next batch of hatchlings would arrive. Allowing time to clean the barns between broods, you get an age at slaughter of absolutely no more than 10 weeks, and probably less.
Take it from someone who had country grandparents on both sides: chickens do not age well and do get tough quickly. Any that is a full year old is going to be too tough to eat using normal cooking methods, hence the term "stewing hen".
Take it from someone who had country grandparents on both sides: chickens do not age well and do get tough quickly. Any that is a full year old is going to be too tough to eat using normal cooking methods, hence the term "stewing hen".
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It's time to fetch my coq au vin recipe...
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chicken stories
Used to catch chickens after school for some extra coin, got paid by the 100. They would light the warehouse with black lights, chicken can't see but you can. We would go around and scoop em up by the legs and put them in the cages that were loaded on trucks. Once the warehouse was clear there was always dead ones smashed by the forklift or killed and pecked by the others. Since these were live fryer loads they couldn't go in the cages, UNLESS, it was a soup load. Then the foreman would yell, soup load everything goes.
another,
The chicks were separated from the adult chicken when hatched and put with 100's of other chicks. So there was no adult learned behavior like would occur in nature. The stupid chicks emulated the other stupid chicks and were quite frankly, stupid. I pull this analogy out from time to time to describe the behavior, or should I say excuse the behavior of some of our youth. Like a bunch of stupid chickens emulating each others stupidity unless they have some adults for a good example.
Used to catch chickens after school for some extra coin, got paid by the 100. They would light the warehouse with black lights, chicken can't see but you can. We would go around and scoop em up by the legs and put them in the cages that were loaded on trucks. Once the warehouse was clear there was always dead ones smashed by the forklift or killed and pecked by the others. Since these were live fryer loads they couldn't go in the cages, UNLESS, it was a soup load. Then the foreman would yell, soup load everything goes.
another,
The chicks were separated from the adult chicken when hatched and put with 100's of other chicks. So there was no adult learned behavior like would occur in nature. The stupid chicks emulated the other stupid chicks and were quite frankly, stupid. I pull this analogy out from time to time to describe the behavior, or should I say excuse the behavior of some of our youth. Like a bunch of stupid chickens emulating each others stupidity unless they have some adults for a good example.
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