How fucking stupid do advertisers think we are? Look at this package of eggs. "Vegetarian Fed Hens". As opposed to the hens that are out having steak every night? Have you ever seen a hen eat anything but a vegetable-based diet?
There's a Chipotle commercial that exclaims that they use "chickens raised by farmers, not corporations". Does anyone actually buy into this shit? Like the chicken we get elsewhere is being raised in a downtown skyscraper? They're ALL raised by farmers, asshat!
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True, I don't believe everything I read...but sorry to say there's some really disgusting stuff out there. Read.
Funny! I saw some chicken tonight with the same claim.
I think I might try skipping the farm raised animals fed a vegetarian diet and dive right into eating some vegetarians. Mmmm....
Eating those eggs will drop a tenth or two off your flying 200!
Don't you and Franz drink 3 raw eggs every morning?
I try to choke down six eggs if possible. It goes down much better if I add some bacon grease as well.
Franz
I skip the eggs and just eat raw chickens. If I have extra time I pluck them first.
I admit to buying the tree-hugger eggs. I'm vegetarian, and as long as I have a choice I want to know my money isn't going to factory farms...and that I'm not ingesting the things that factory farms feed or inject into their animals. The link Trish posted (from the Union of Concerned Scientists) isn't just PETA propaganda.
A "factory farm" is still a farm, and while they are obviously not ideal conditions for animals, they are not nearly as extreme as the hippies want you to believe.
Hippie stereotypes & cheesy marketing aside, think of it this way: as an athlete, you want to be as careful as possible about what you put into your body when it comes to vitamins and nutritional supplements. Shouldn't you be equally concerned about hormones/antibiotics/etc. that may be in what you eat?
I live in the heart of farm country. We have a lot of Jack Frost, Gold'N Plump factory supported farms. I have also worked on a small independent farm when I was young.
With out a doubt the average large farmer is more educated and in tune with disease and contamination than the small independent farmers I worked with and for.
Funny you do not think that many small independent farmers do not travel to their local MILLS FLEET STORE and buy drugs for their infected animals. Funny you do not realize they administer the drugs to their infected animals (a dead animal does not make them money). If you have been to a MILLS FLEET you will see they have a refrigerated drug area right in the store.
When I worked at a small store in Albany MN back in the 80's it was amazing how many small independent farmers could not even fill out a check. They were illiterate. Now do you really believe they can prescribe the correct dosage of drugs to their sick animals if they can not read the bottle?
Question everything.
Ted
Ted, I will agree that while "local independent" may make it easier to avoid conditions necessitating practices such as high levels of antibiotics or debeaking, it doesn't necessarily translate to "the best". My mother spent several years working on the factory floor of a frozen foods company. They handled a lot pork products (among other things), and whatever was unsaleable was taken by a "local independent farmer" and fed to his hogs. Mmmmmmm, pork-fed pork chops, anyone?
Similarly, "vegetarian fed" doesn't indicate that the chickens are receiving the best nutrients--but it does reduce the potential for latent animal diseases in the feed. This diet/labeling, in fact, is perhaps more of a benefit to large-scale operations than it is to smaller farms, where chickens can have the benefit of eating living grass...and even some bugs.
FWIW, I grew up in a rural area not that far from where you're at. Our family raised chickens for a while, I had a lot of friends who farmed, and my own grandparents have been in the hog farming business for 50+ years. So I'm familiar with a range of farming practices, and my dietary choice is informed by firsthand perspective--not animal rights rhetoric. It is my choice not to eat meat unless I have raised, fished, or hunted it myself. It's no judgment on what anyone else chooses to eat. If I skip the steak, there's more left for you!
I agree with you last comments. Especially the one in that you do not eat something if you do not know for a fact how it was handled. nuf said.
Ted
Oh snap! New record for comments on my blog, and all because I thought to myself, "that's funny, of COURSE chickens eat vegatables".
Many of you may not know that I come from a long line of farm people (you'd never guess it, since I've acclimated so well to live in the big city!), so in a way, I tend to take offense when I hear claims about how commercial farmers are unnecessarily cruel to animals.
Many of my relatives have had to resort to operating so-called "factory farms" because it's the only way to make it as a farmer anymore. However, I know for a fact that the animals are cared for as humanely as possible.
If an animal is sick, I definitely want it to receive antibiotics, otherwise it would likely die. And believe it or not, the use of steroids is strongly frowned upon, even by the large corporations whose number one goal is to make a profit.
Now that I think about it, maybe eating steroid-laden meat will help me throw down a faster flying 200 time...
I shall close with my one of my favorite quotes of all time:
"Damn hippies...they say they want to save the world but all they do is smoke weed and drive around in cars that get poor gas mileage."
-Eric Cartman
(hippies, please don't take offense, I just think it's funny to perpetuate stereotypes):
3 raw eggs in the morning right?
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