Europe deplores America's 'chlorinated chicken.' How safe is our poultry?

NPR ^ | 04/15/2025 | Will Stone

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‘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’

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Chickens are ultimate omnivores, they eat anything, including you if you happen to die in their coop. They eat living like dead things, the worms in the cow poop and the poop itself. By all accounts and unless a lot of fortunate chance ( I mean a lot!), the eggs of free range chickens, especially yours who don’t tell, should be disgusting compared to eggs from chickens in controlled environment with controlled and optimised feed. But as I said, I have found no difference IN BLIND TESTS and have always found that those who said otherwise always fail to taste a difference when submitted to the test.

I don’t doubt you find your eggs better than industrial eggs. What I doubt is that you have a rational explanation for that serependitously superior taste , that you did real blind tests or that your exceptional taste buds are the norm and not the exception.

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‘You and these others are eating these eggs with no seasoning on them?”

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Salt and pepper with boiled eggs and bacon with fried eggs for me, if that counts as seasonning. And of course, no restriction on salt.

[gnarledmaw]

Chickens do not eat anything just because its there if they have a choice any more than you would. None of that holds water.

You admitted that you were testing something else and therefor have never once done a blind test.

I dont see why my imaginary belief should cause your fabrication to get so ruffled.

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‘Chlorine is harmful to people’

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Chlorine is used massively in swimming pools. Do you have data that show that people with swimming pool have been harmed by chlorine and have worse health than those without?

Btw, it’s false to say that chlorine wasn’t used years ago. It was used more than two centuries ago for its disinfectant and bleaching properties, massively so and its usage has never decreased ever since. Chlorine as water disinfectant has been litterally a miracle chemical and has saved billions of lifes from food borne diseases and infectious diseases like cholera or dysentery.
It’s just very recently that there has been a vast campaign demonizing ‘chemicals’ in general and chlorine especially. And the fact that Greenpeace is at the forefront of that fearmongering should be a red flag to any freeper worth his salt.
Greenpeace, seriously? When has it last been right on anything?

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‘Chickens do not eat anything just because its there if they have a choice any more than you would. None of that holds water’

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What do you mean by “none’? They eat all I said above, given the choice or not, so unless you can deny any specific, what I said do hold water.
If your free range chicken don’t eat ‘anything’ given the choice, then why do they eat your kitchen scraps which are by definition anything? Free range chickens eat anything they find precisely because they are raised so, that’s precisely THE point of free range, so your refutation makes no sense.

‘You admitted that you were testing something else and therefor have never once done a blind test”

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Whaattt? I never ‘admitted’ such thing. Your reading is crazy.

[gnarledmaw]

You have no idea what your talking about. Just go back to your drinking, I dont want you to stumble or anything.

Have a fine day.

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“You have no idea what your talking about. Just go back to your drinking, I dont want you to stumble or anything.”

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Projection much? As a carnivore, I drink only water. So you are dead wrong, as always. But thanks for your kind attention to ‘anything’.