Good Eats S1E5P1: A Bird In The Pan

Uhm. Yeah. It is illegal to give growth hormones to chicken, turkeys, pigs, etc in the US. It is only legal to give growth hormones to beef and dairy cattle. And we don't need to give chickens hormones. Commercial breeds have been bred to get so large so fast that they have to be slaughtered at 6-7 weeks old or they become crippled (mostly heart and leg conditions) by their own oversized bodies. If they got bigger any faster, they would be dead before they were large enough to eat.

That sounds like adolescent mutant ninja chickens to me. Okay, maybe not ninja but the rest is true.

But commercial chickens etc are not being fed what they are designed to eat. Grains. While chickens will eat just about anything they are supposed to eat grass. That is excluded from their diet. The chickens you eat are sick chickens they are caged and eating bad food to get them to grow as fast as possible. Also they way they keep the bird kept will only continue to shrink the wink size.

Chickens eat insects, vegetation, dead chickens and unhatched eggs. Commercial feed is neither particularly unnatural or unhealthy. They are more healthy than most pet foods are for dogs and cats (wheat, corn and sugar, the main ingredients in most and are TERRIBLE for dogs and cats).

And they don't cage chickens to make them grow faster. It's to keep them from pecking each other to death. They are kept indoors because outdoors most would die horribly from exposure, disease, and predators.

BTW I do agree that the lives of factory farmed chickens are pretty bad. But that's because breeding for growth and size created sick crippled animals - probably in pain most of their brief lives. If you want chickens that had decent lives, buy heritage breeds rather than ones with slightly better food or shelter. "Free range" birds live in an overcrowded outdoor shed, and "organic fed" birds suffer from awful diseases because they aren't given antibiotics. Both are crippled sickly birds.

Yeah, of course it is also the debate on what and isn't healthy. There is evidence that flu vaccines are bad for you yet there is evidence they do the job. But generally if a bird or animal is eating what it is supposed to antibiotics shouldnt be need. As for cows. I think you certainly agree that something has to change.

It's not much of a debate. There is evidence that vaccines work. Nothing but anecdotes saying they don't or are harmful.

There is also no evidence that a chicken eating grass won't get sick and need antibiotics. "Organic" chickens have a MUCH higher incidence of disease, and wild birds are still more prone despite "eating what they're supposed to." But a well bred chicken in a clean dry shed is less likely to get sick, even on a poor diet. A genetically weak chicken will get sick regardless.

Yes but there is a strong connection between autism and asthma along with vaccine usage. Both diseases dramatically increased with with mandirty immunizations.

There is NO connection. There is an alleged connection between a chemical no longer used in a vaccine no longer given and autism. NO study has supported the allegation.

There IS a connection between thousands of children  dying from preventable diseases and people like you tragically misinforming people by spouting rubbish about shots causing autism.

Please find a cause that doesn't kill people's babies, and do stop spewing nonsense about chickens, There's nothing wrong with chicken feed

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