I’ll just go shoot a few deer. Tastes like chicken or something.
Couldn’t care less what happens at Whole Paychecks.
The article says that chicken breasts from the alternative breeds could cost $10/pound vs. $3/pound currently.
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The elites don’t care. $10/pound. $1,00/pound. Makes no difference to them.
At ten bucks a pound I can raise my own, even if it isn't legal in my suburb.
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Whole Foods Chicken Certifier Upends Market With New Breed Rules
These people are deranged. We are going to cut off the chicken's heads, defeather them, gut them, and eat them. I am not into animal abuse, but that is not what this is about.
As you implied, this is using the government to drive people into their desired forms of food consumption, much the same as they use the government to drive people into using their preferred forms of transportation.
Everything they do is about control. They are evil, pure and simple.
I was in a WF the other day for day to drop an Amazon return.
The smugness was palpable. It is like the unique scent of Airport Duty Free shops: sanctimony, smugness and self-satisfaction in an overwhelming wave.
“Chicken from alternative breeds can cost $10 per pound for boneless breasts compared with about $3 for mass-market birds currently.”
Doesn’t really mean much, as the alternative breeds are specialty, small-farm products vs. the more efficient larger farms.
I’m in an expensive part of the country and boneless chicken breasts (yuck—where’s the flavor?) is regularly on special for $2 a pound.
I am for producing and eating a lot of meat, but treating all animals involved well from birth to butchering.
I bought fresh whole, skinned chicken breasts at Sam’s for $1.89/lb just a few weeks ago...9 breasts in the package.
Used it to make dog food for little Fido over the weekend.
Fido may have to go on a diet.
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.
It seems like the opposite had happened since Amazon bought Whole Foods - they moved to lower quality meat.
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.
Typical dick move by wealthy psychopaths.
Maybe the Rattlesnake and the Alligator meats will become price competitive. They both taste like chicken, but cost a lot more!
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.
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.
Less choice and higher costs. Socialists always support that.