BS: If you like chicken and don't watch BBC

Subject: BS: If you like chicken and don't watch BBC
From: GUEST
Date: 22 May 03 - 05:14 PM

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/panorama/default.stm

Read "The chicken run"

Subject: RE: BS: If you like chicken and don't watch BBC
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 22 May 03 - 06:05 PM

Too late, I already seen it....

Possibly going vegetarian soon.... wonder how many Muslims and Jews are going to sue because of the possibility there was "unfit" meat in there......


LTS

Subject: RE: BS: If you like chicken and don't watch BBC
From: vectis
Date: 22 May 03 - 06:14 PM

Now I remember why I started going to a local butcher that sells local produce. I visited a friend who had just married the manager of a dutch abbatoire: too, too illuminating.

Subject: RE: BS: If you like chicken and don't watch BBC
From: GUEST
Date: 23 May 03 - 12:44 AM

EAT BEEF !!!

By American - save a brain.

Subject: RE: BS: If you like chicken and don't watch BBC
From: Charley Noble
Date: 23 May 03 - 08:26 AM

Thanks for sharing!

This expose reminds me of other unhealthy practices this industry "used to" indulge in such as mixing chicken manure with chicken feed, and feeding it to chickens.

Back when I was a graduate student at Michigan State University we used to take undergraduates on social science field trips to the chicken farms on the south campus. There they would view row upon row of 2'X2' cages, stacked 3-up, with the upper rows shitting on the ones underneath. All very efficient in their way. We were attempting to provide these student a preview of what market forces they would encounter after they left the University. Eventually, the poultry management staff put a stop to our tours.

Charley Noble

Subject: RE: BS: If you like chicken and don't watch BBC
From: *daylia*
Date: 23 May 03 - 09:37 AM

Interesting article, GUEST. Thanks!

What I've heard about commercial chicken-farming (in North America, anyway) is that the birds, like cattle etc., are fed steroid hormones to make them grow faster. Those same hormones when eaten by humans cause fatigue, among other less desirable side-effects -- like interfering with the normal growth of children.

I've always wondered if this were true. Why DO children seem so much bigger these days? For the last 20 years I've noticed quite a difference between my students and what I remember of "standard size" for kids while I was growing up in the 60's/70's. A lot more of them have problems with overweight, too. Too much junk food/computers/TV, and not enough sports?
(Don't want to blame it on the piano lessons - most of them don't practice enough anyway!) Hmmmmmm

daylia

Subject: RE: BS: If you like chicken and don't watch BBC
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 23 May 03 - 03:06 PM

Processed meat apart, they are just getting a different diet - all carbohydrate and sugar, and a better one - all year round access to a huge variety of fruit and vegetables.

Take half the carbohydrate and two thirds the processed white flour/sugar out of the child's diet and you'll see a huge difference. Carbs make fat that is stored for use later, ordinary fats are used fairly rapidly. When you store all that fat and then don't use it, it's going to stay where it is, in the fat deposits on the stomach, the hips, the bum and thighs.

LTS