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Post by Deleted on Jan 9, 2014 8:52:40 GMT -5
Anyone seen this documentary? It is excellent though a bit hard to watch sometimes when you see how meat gets from the quote in quote "farms" to the table.The mass production of corn and all the bi products the corn produces and is in our everyday food is alarming.No wonder we are in a nation of fatties.I try to eat healthy but it's getting harder and harder these days with rising costs and organic farming is a thing of the past because we have so many mouths to feed and we need the produce to grow faster but with that short growing season the food loses its flavor.The thing that bothered me most was the chicken growers and the conditions the chickens lived in to get fattened up quickly. When you see a chicken breast the size of a turkey breast something is wrong.
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Post by patcat on Jan 9, 2014 10:51:53 GMT -5
I think I saw that show a while back. If not that one, one similar. My dad was always bringing home birds(quail, pheasants, dove) after hunting. Deer and hog were something that had to be dressed. From the wild, they don't come pre-packaged. LOL! We used to buy a half a cow every yr, with the preacher. He passed, and well, 2 ppl just don't need a whole cow, not to mention the space it takes to store it. We used to fish the Everglades and eat that fish. That was so long ago, now with the mercury poisoning, well, fishing just ain't the same, when you can't eat and enjoy the catch. We try to get snapper, grouper, and whatever gets on the hook, from the west coast, when we can all get away for a week or two of fishing, when the snappers is running. We also enjoy scalloping a little further north on the gulf side, in season. I lobster also, down here in S.Fl. We love summer, for the abundance of good fresh veggies!
When the Mr. was building I-75 from Ocala to the Ga line, he went over to Starke area, and one of the chicken farmers took him on a tour of the poultry plant. My husband would not eat chicken for about 6 months! The only horror memory I have of chickens, is my little ole grandma, swinging a chicken around, like it was a helicopter! At least it looked different, by the time it got to the table! LOL! Was probably better for us, than all that chemical, confined chickens we get from the store.
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Post by BC1969 on Jan 9, 2014 10:58:28 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Jan 9, 2014 13:06:58 GMT -5
Pat I love your stories,I can just see your granny swinging that chicken around! My mom who is 83 remembers when even in the suburbs people kept chickens in their yard for natural pest control as well as using the chickens for their eggs and meat.It was the girls' job to pluck the chickens after my granddaddy wrung their necks.It sounds so inhumane but at least the chickens were free range chickens and lived the life a chicken is supposed to live,not trapped up in coops with other disease ridden birds who can't even stand up because they are raised and injected with hormones to fatten them up to make them bigger.You are so very right about Monsanto,we're becoming a socialized food nation and ever more dependant on the government.
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Post by DeepseekerADS on Jan 9, 2014 20:48:56 GMT -5
Oh, Lord knows I plucked some chickens, but I didn't wring any necks like Granny did!
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