Posted on 04/15/2025 11:24:12 AM PDT by BenLurkin
America 🇺🇸 deplores NPR. How safe are American tax dollars?
We need to clean up our food supply—and not keep trying to force it on the rest of the world!
It’s just slamming the country with BS lies, deceit and half truths because that’s the in thing right now. NPR is garbage and the EU are Fascists
Crazy, ain’t it? But chicken producers discovered it’s cheeper to pack up the chickies and ship them to China for processing than to process them here. It’s the usual reason: dirt-cheap labor and no worker benefits, no labor union complications, no regulatory hoops to jump thru, etc.
More reason for the tariff. Stop the insanity.
I rather prefer chicken without built in salmonella.
Agree on the eggs. We get them free from our neighbor (he has several breeds). I can really taste the difference in the meat however. It may be due to the breed, but my beef guy only raises Angus, the chickens are Cornish Cross (same as you get at most grocery stores). The guy I buy pork from raises several breeds. I’d like to think that it has more to do with the methods used.
If the EU is willing to accept US chicken if its rules are followed, then follow its rules if you want EU sales.
You didn’t read your link.
NO SHIPMENTS!
National Chicken Council spokesperson Tom Super described the Facebook post as "fake news" in a July 12 email to USA TODAY. Super said there "have not been any shipments of US chicken sent to China to be processed and sent back here."
FALSE
"It makes zero economic sense to do so, especially in light of record input costs, and sky-high shipping and freight costs," Super said.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2022/07/15/fact-check-years-old-usda-rule-allows-china-process-us-poultry/10031250002/
The No Regular Shipments comment was backed up by a Fact Check from USAToday from 2022.
Hoo Boy.
Football helmets are the cause of all manner of head injuries if you ask a rugby player. You get shoulder injuries in rugby - CTE not so much.
Safety standards are often a cornerstone for an industry maintaining a regulatory competitive advantage. So can you even sell chicken without a chemical wash? IDK. If so, that woul be a nice way to stop me from buying from the Ahmish down the street.
Same deal with US requiring all milk be pasteurized - you can have horrible cow hygiene an get away with it - except for horrible tasting cheese that has lost all manner of nutrition and beneficial bacteria.
I haven’t eaten a turkey for years. Since I opened up the package and smelled formaldehyde. And now, every time I think of a chicken or a turkey unless it’s organic I can’t even think about eating it.
God the level of ignorance is appalling. Go to your sink turn it on, pour a glass and drink it. Oh the horrors chlorine! It is in every municipal water supply and most well water systems use chlorine tablets too. There is no other better disinfectant, ozone works but has no lasting effect so if you store the water it goes off quickly same UVC light treatments it’s instant and then not effective. For lasting effect you need a halide ion and chlorine is the best one.
all I know is most times I open a package of chicken from the supermarket there is an off putting odor and it’s rubbery. date is fine, but some thing isn’t ok.
I started buying “air chilled” and so far less if any smell.
of course it costs more.
“God the level of ignorance is appalling.”
yes it is.
Chlorine is harmful to people, if you recall Dems were up in arms when they thought Trump was telling people to inject bleach during pandemic.
seriously, if you have thyroid issues you are told to avoid chlorine, so why would we want to eat food treated with it? you may say it’s tiny amount, but enough drops of poison adds up.
all these chemicals are hurting us. people years ago didnt use them. I’d rather we bring back fresh kill butcher shops.
You and these others are eating these eggs with no seasoning on them?
Yuck.
That’s so unpleasant, I’d be unable to discern a difference anyway.
OTOH, I’d think any seasoning added would swamp minor differences in taste.
With meat, whatever was used to wash it could make a difference in the taste, even IF only water was used, as some can get absorbed into the meat, and water varies hugely.
At the very least there are different (more) pigments in free range eggs than in your “industrial” eggs, and I’d be willing to bet some trace “nutrients” (or contaminants?)* are higher in free range eggs. Whether that is “better” I’m not certain, but the “more orange” free range eggs yolks are certainly more visually “attractive”.
*I will grant you many a keeper of free range chickens has no idea what was dumped or buried 50 or 150 years ago on the land their chickens roam... I find all sorts of crazy stuff if I do any digging in the woodlot out past our east yard and garden.
Only vaguely related: Have you seen the info. that has come out that Gene Hackman’s wife knew she was sick, and apparently thought she might have COVID? Unfortunately, there is a lot more than COVID “out there”. I’m NOT a “run to the doctor” if I’m not really sick sort of person, but it’s so sad she didn’t go to a doctor once she got more than moderately ill... I wonder if she took heavy nighttime cold medicine, zonked out, and then in the morning was so sick she never COULD call for help.
Gotta understand your limits as ya’ get older...
Thats not the truth with eggs either if you compare relevant things.
The difference is flavor is not related to housing or weather they had their butts massaged by pandas.
For example, there is a couple we know that has a few dozen chickens. They have a coop and a small enclosed area. The chickens are let out once in a rare while but for the most part kept in a 1/2 acre plot. According to the dirty cramped housing theory their chickens and eggs should taste much better than “factory” farm eggs.
Their eggs are absolutely disgusting. They keep their birds locked up until they are into maturity. They dont readily identify “wild” food. The chickens eat a low grade budget crumble. If you throw a worm their way they stand terrorized wondering what the worm is going to do. Their eggs taste like the smell of hot wet corrugated cardboard. These eggs are much worse than “factory” eggs.
My personal flocks are let out within days of hatching. They dont say what they eat but it has to be almost exclusively bugs and weeds along with any corn left from last year that the crows, cranes, and wild geese havent picked up. I do not hire pandas to rub their butts. I open the door in the morning so they can go to work. I close the door at night so the raccoons cant come to work. They dont tell me where they go but I know that some go quite far to feed on things like wild grapes, gooseberries, junebugs, and whatever else mother nature puts on the menu. There are kitchen scraps and sometimes that box of smashed week old donuts I picked up for 25 cents. My eggs, not really the whites but especially the yolks, taste entirely different and significantly better than “factory” eggs.
‘At the very least there are different (more) pigments in free range eggs than in your “industrial” eggs, and I’d be willing to bet some trace “nutrients” (or contaminants?)* are higher in free range eggs’
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