Comments on: Who mistook the steak for chicken?

By: NorCal Cazadora

NorCal Cazadora — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 21:41:52 +0000

Great post! I found your blog when I was researching a post on chicken breast for my blog (click back on my link and check it out to see a GREAT 1940s-era photo of roasted turkey – its breasts are positively tiny).

I hunt for most of my meat, so I get around this problem most of the time. (Double bonus: Wild game tastes infinitely more flavorful than domestic meat.) When I do buy domestic, I try really, really hard to avoid factory-farmed meat for exactly the reasons people have talked about here – animals bred into deformity to meet the inexplicable demand for the most boring-tasting part of the bird. (Not to mention the disgusting treatment of animals and the environmental damage of all that concentrated waste.)

But oh, man, I love chicken, and sometimes I can’t stop myself from putting a rotisserie chicken in my cart at the grocery store. If the store carried a free-range/pastured/organic chicken in its rotisserie rack, I would buy it more often, at almost any price.
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By: Allie

Allie — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:20:39 +0000

It really stinks that talking about moderation isn’t popular or newsworthy.
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By: alice

alice — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 02:54:15 +0000

Next time you’re in Chattanooga, I’ll take you by our downtown chicken processing plant for a looksee and (even from a distance) I think you’ll change your mind. They use mistreated (and therefore, quite sickly) chickens that are freakishly disgusting — bald, deformed and covered in shit. No thanks. If that’s going to be the only way we can put food on our dinner tables as the population increases on this planet, then we need to start seriously thinking about culling the herd and/or incentivizing/enforcing some form of birth control.

Well, we ought to be working on that anyway… it’s getting too damn crowded…
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By: ssg

ssg — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 13:39:42 +0000

doooood where’ve you goooonnnneeee????????
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By: My Name's Not Barbara

My Name's Not Barbara — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:15:55 +0000

I think this was a well balanced post. While I know the social, environmental, and health benefits of being a vegetarian, (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6299642/) I still eat meat. I believe it is important in our diets but not to the extent that Americans consume it. I’m very much against hormones and antibiotics in cattle, pigs, chickens, and other domestic fare, the idea that farmers are selectively breeding their chickens doesn’t sound all that appetizing either. Like you said, everyone has to start taking responsibility for their food and their own health and eat the right portions. Ideally, the meat you consume should have been treated ethically and also eaten as a “treat” rather than a meal staple, as it was in my house growing up.
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By: ssg

ssg — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:58:50 +0000

dude i totally disagree with you over the animal thing. Maybe cos I’m from the Uk and we’re all wack jobs that support animal charities, but I dont want to eat something that’s had a measley life, cooped up in a cage. I would rather be veggie. And why would prices sky rocket if we all went veggie? If i went veggie i dont think I would eat that much more veg, I would just cut out the meat which I dont really need. People could be more encouraged to grow their own food. The space taken up by cows and pigs and shit could be converted into crop land. And we dont need to eat so much- most of us in the western world eat way more than we need to, and also throw away a lot. Saying you dont care about chickens cos we all need to be fed to me, isn’t a good argument. We dont need meat everyday. We dont need huge meals. We dont have to raise chickens in a battery environment inorder to get enough protein to feed us. We could eat engineered bacterial fodder if we wanted to, but we have a choice. Eating a zombie chicken that cant move and is having a horrific time is not what i’d call tasty. I call that gross. Why do we always have to eat what we want now- it’s the same for some fruit. i can get pineapple in the UK any time of year- but why should I? I kinda find it disgusting.
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By: Jill/Twipply Skwood

Jill/Twipply Skwood — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:33:32 +0000

Nathan B. – I don’t know for certain, and what I know uncertainly isn’t much. But my daughter was telling me that some of the kosher laws have to do with making (certain) animals pure by means of a slaughter where they don’t suffer. Other animals (like fish she was telling me) you could just eat alive if you want. I don’t know why one would care about the suffering of one animal over another…

A Free Man – I didn’t know that about the starvation thing. I thought that the corn and stuff that went into raising an animal would feed more people than the dead animal itself? Is it that they’re being fed stuff people couldn’t eat I guess?
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By: Ted

Ted — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 06:22:54 +0000

It makes you wonder what you have actually eaten in your life sometimes.

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By: A Free Man

A Free Man — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 04:16:12 +0000

I don’t actually care about how chickens are raised or slaughtered or whether they tip over when they walk. I don’t mean to be flip, but chickens are incredibly stupid animals and when it comes right down to it, whether we like it or not, there are 7 billion people on the planet that have to eat. If we all became vegetarian today, food prices would skyrocket and a hell of a lot of people would starve. Whether a chicken is raised in a cage, or a shed or is ‘free range’ – as an aside, all you have to do to make a chicken ‘free range’ is give them a small outdoor area, they ain’t roaming the Great Plains my friends – means nothing to me. Food security is going to become an increasingly important issue, so the ethical raising and slaughtering of chickens just isn’t that important. Call me what you will, but we have to be pragmatic.
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By: Nathan B.

Nathan B. — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 03:37:04 +0000

I was referring to the posts that alluded toward the humanity (my words) of pigs being killed in a gas chamber, etc. My understanding is that religious rules for meat processing are in place for ensuring “purity” of the meat, not how humanely the animal died. I could be wrong though…