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Whole Foods' Animal Welfare Certifier to Cut 90% of U.S. Chicken From Approved Supplies
Bloomberg | Amelia Pollard, Leslie Patton, and Michael Hirtzer

Posted on 11/22/2021 2:09:06 PM PST by karpov

No excerpt from Bloomberg allowed, story here.


TOPICS: Business/Economy
KEYWORDS: chicken; food; wholefoods
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To: karpov

They’re moving to slower growing breeds instead of what some people call frankenchickens. Along with a neighbor, I raised Red Rangers that take 9-11 weeks as opposed to the Cornish Cross that takes 6 weeks to get to processing size. They were pretty decent. I don’t like Tyson and other brands with huge breasts that are basically tasteless rubber.

One grocery store was advertising whole chickens for $1.29/lb this week but when I went there, it was Tyson so I grabbed a Springer Mountain Farms whole chicken for $1.59/lb.

If you let those Cornish Cross grow out past 42 days, they can’t even walk. They will just sit and eat. They also have a tendency to have leg issues, broken legs, because their legs can’t handle the extra weight they were selectively bred for. It ain’t natural. They have zero personality and are just eating machines.

With the slower growing breeds, you can free range them a little or use a chicken tractor. That way they’re getting something natural to eat, bugs, worms etc. You could open the coop door for the Cornish Cross and they won’t even go outside.

Even the slightly slower meat breeds like the Red Ranger are four way crosses from four specific grandparent lines so you can’t try to breed them yourself and expect the same result. If you want to raise and breed your own meat chickens, about all you can do is use the heavy dual purpose breeds. Meat and eggs and take the roosters and eventually unneeded hens at a fairly young age/small size before they get tough.

The Delaware breed was about to be the official table bird until they came out with the Cornish Cross and after that, breeders quit developing the Delaware for meat and left it as a dual purpose breed. Sand Hills Preserve was supposed to be working on bringing the Delaware back towards the fast growing meat bird but it’s only one guy and his wife so I don’t think they’ve done much.

On that note; I don’t care if Whole Foods is doing this if that’s what their customers want. I know of a guy who found a niche among the rich people living in the rockies that gets $30/chicken for “natural raised” and he’s using the dual purpose breeds. Whatever. On the other end, I don’t do Smithfield or Tyson period because I don’t like conglomerates. I like choice.


21 posted on 11/22/2021 2:47:07 PM PST by Pollard (PureBlood -- youtube.com/watch?v=VXm0fkDituE)
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To: rlmorel
Everything they do is about control. They are evil, pure and simple.

Maybe we should return the favor by taking away their basic fundamental comforts like their money, mansions, businesses, cars, boats, jets, and all other luxury items. They don't need more than one small house or more than 1/15th of an acre of land. In fact a small apartment in the projects is all they need. If they complain they can pitch a tent on the street like all the new homeless people they created.

Let's see how they like being controlled. Do unto others...

22 posted on 11/22/2021 2:51:51 PM PST by Boomer (Leftism is a mental illness wrapped in a perverse ideology resulting in insanity. FJB)
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To: foundedonpurpose

I don’t much are for these giant modern chicken parts. I’ve always preferred squirrel meat to chicken, anyway. Looks like the woods around here will be losing quite a few of those cute critters if other stores follow Amazon Foods.


23 posted on 11/22/2021 2:57:15 PM PST by Cincinnatus.45-70 (What do DemocRats enjoy more than a truckload of dead babies? Unloading them with a pitchfork!)
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To: karpov

It seems like the opposite had happened since Amazon bought Whole Foods - they moved to lower quality meat.


24 posted on 11/22/2021 3:00:28 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

Is WHOLE FOODS clearing the way for BILL GATES’ fake meat?


25 posted on 11/22/2021 3:05:13 PM PST by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord. (Psalm 33:12))
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To: KarlInOhio

https://www.nal.usda.gov/legacy/awic/certification-programs

animal welfare certifier


26 posted on 11/22/2021 3:07:14 PM PST by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: Pollard

we have grown crosses and have taken away their food about 3 pm. takes 9 to 12 weeks to grow them but they grow slower and stay healthy


27 posted on 11/22/2021 3:07:34 PM PST by Chickensoup ( Leftists totalitarian fascists are eradicating conservatives)
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To: Cold Heart

***In Oregon (why not), they want to pass a law that would outlaw hunting.***

They did that 100 years ago on the north side, Kaibab Plateau of the Grand Canyon. No hunting, but the government also removed all predators there.
The deer multiplied so fast they soon destroyed the land, then came the massive die off.


28 posted on 11/22/2021 3:14:49 PM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar (OUT of Facebook Jail! But for how long?)
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To: Chickensoup

I’ve heard of doing that. The Red Rangers we did ended up being $5.50/bird and CCs would have been cheaper because the day old chicks are cheaper. We let ours grow out a week longer than we should have because the timing ended up at hunting season and my neighbor didn’t want to take a day off from that to process the birds so we ended up with 5-6 pounders.


29 posted on 11/22/2021 3:21:17 PM PST by Pollard (PureBlood -- youtube.com/watch?v=VXm0fkDituE)
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To: Pollard

I don’t eat “commercial” chicken or pork any more. The Omega 6 ratio to Omega 3 is WAY off. I want low PUFA meat ... this means pastured chicken/pork. There’s a local farm that sells it .... I occasionally buy there. Mostly, I eat venison and beef (ruminant - which takes care of the PUFA issue).

A relative of mine is just starting a farm where they will be selling pastured chickens & pork & eventually grass raised/finished beef. I can’t wait!

Some interesting reading on the subject:

Disastrous Trends in American Bacon
https://fireinabottle.net/polyunsaturated-fat-pufa-in-pork-and-chicken/


30 posted on 11/22/2021 3:23:32 PM PST by Qiviut ("Don't let your children die on the hill you refuse to fight on.")
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To: karpov

Since the average chicken breast has grown to D-cup size I’ve lost interest in buying/cooking with them. The texture and flavor are not the same as when they are smaller.


31 posted on 11/22/2021 3:34:17 PM PST by Rebelbase ( State Dept. Havana Syndrome victims: Guinea pigs of 5G/graphene oxide vax experiments?)
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To: karpov

Typical dick move by wealthy psychopaths.


32 posted on 11/22/2021 3:38:06 PM PST by TheDon (Resist the usurpers)
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To: Pollard

—> I don’t like Tyson and other brands with huge breasts that are basically tasteless rubber.

Never thought the day would come on FR when “huge breasts” are dissed!!!

WHAT’S HAPPENING TO THIS WORLD???!!!


33 posted on 11/22/2021 3:42:17 PM PST by aMorePerfectUnion (Fraud vitiates everything ᡕᠵ᠊ᡃ࡚ࠢ࠘ ⸝່ࠡࠣ᠊߯᠆ࠣ࠘ᡁࠣ࠘᠊᠊ࠢ࠘𐡏⁻ )
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To: karpov

Maybe the Rattlesnake and the Alligator meats will become price competitive. They both taste like chicken, but cost a lot more!


34 posted on 11/22/2021 3:48:16 PM PST by AZJeep (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0AHQkryIIs)
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To: aMorePerfectUnion

I like pears, not melons.


35 posted on 11/22/2021 3:50:55 PM PST by Pollard (PureBlood -- youtube.com/watch?v=VXm0fkDituE)
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To: karpov

Is this a Jeff Bezos initiative?

I just discovered a terrific local farm that raises beef, chicken, duck and pork- free range and grass fed with no antibiotics or junk to make them huge. They’ve been there for years and I never knew- heard an ad on local radio and hustled over. For the first time in years, chicken tastes like...chicken:) Not cheap but I’m not feeding a family anymore, it’s ok.


36 posted on 11/22/2021 4:01:19 PM PST by SE Mom
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To: foundedonpurpose

I thought gator was kind of gross, and I was already drunk on Jack...


37 posted on 11/22/2021 4:31:32 PM PST by EEGator
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To: karpov

Farm livin’ is the life for me. I raise my own for meat and eggs. Chopped the heads off of three just yesterday, plucked, cleaned, and quartered already in my freezer. Overall cost for this farmboy... maybe <1.50 chicken (even after feed).

Whole Foods can kiss my cockadoodledo.


38 posted on 11/22/2021 4:32:45 PM PST by centermass_socrates (RINOs belong in Africa with their friends.)
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To: piasa

Liberals probably taste like couch potato, with the “e” as in coach potatoe.


39 posted on 11/22/2021 7:51:52 PM PST by Jumper
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To: karpov

Less choice and higher costs. Socialists always support that.


40 posted on 11/22/2021 11:42:24 PM PST by minnesota_bound (I need more money. )
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