Factory farm chickens are so pumped up with steroids that they grow..

[Union Yes]

so large that their internal organs and bone structures can't keep up.

They often spend their last weeks paralyzed by their own body weight. Only able to barely crawl.

As long as they live until the processing/slaughter date of the whole flock, they all get processed.

Enjoy the taste of paralyzed chicken.

Please watch Food Inc for free tonight on PBS.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

1. This food has little effect on those who consume it daily. That's what the

factory farm owner wants you to believe... thinking persons know otherwise.

[WeDidIt]

2. About three fourths of it is the genetics

You cna get meat birds as chicks. They lead horrible lives even free range because of how they were bred.

Oh, and before the cut up chicken hit's the meat shelves in the grocery store, they inject water into it which keeps the meat juicy regardless of how fucked up you try to cook the shit, but also increases the wieght.

I buy certified organic drug and hormone free range chicken meat. It costs two to three times as much as the grocery, but I only eat a third of what I would eat from the grocery.

[Warpy]

6. No kidding, that's what I did the last time I ate it.

Free range chicken can't be cut with the side of your fork, it's real meat instead of factory farmed mush.

I've totally lost my taste for any meat, at all, so it's fish for me and not much of that.

Changing over to organically farmed meat is the best first step. Cutting your intake because of its higher cost is the best second step. Your cardiovascular system will thank you for it.

[Gman2]

3. When it looks like you will take a lickin", Call Super Chicken. Bak bak bak

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKss2pBYQ6Y

[uppityperson]

4. We raised meat birds once, they got to run around and weren't the superfast growing ones

Of course they weren't that tender, but they got to have a bit of a life beyond being stuffed in a tiny cage with nothing to do but feed the hungry belly all day and night. The super fast ones were grown by a friend who butchered them because they were too pitiful. They could go outside but grew so big so fast that they could no longer stand up.

[NNN0LHI]

7. A friend who shot a wild turkey near here imagined it was going to taste like a Butterball

He said it was more like eating shoe leather. He said the more he chewed the bigger it got in his mouth.

Don

[shraby]

11. We always had our own chickens to eat when I was a kid..

If Mom wanted a more tender one, it got put in a cage for a few days. Mostly they got pre-fried then put in a pan in the oven with a couple of cans of cream of mushroom soup over them and cooked for about an hour...yummmmmm

[Mother Smuckers]

5. I can't get that television here, do you have a link to that claim?

Thanks.

[amerikat]

8. You can watch it online here....

http://www.sprword.com/videos/foodinc/

You will need broadband.

[Mother Smuckers]

15. Oh well thanks, I'm stuck with a jerry-rigged semi-dialup out here in the jungle

video isn't doable. They keep talking about some kind of satellite gadget but it will probably be long after I'm finished with my project...

[KT2000]

9. It is horrendous

what is being done to other living things for profit.
Have you read what the animals produced by genetic modification live through - pure torture. They are huge and terribly deformed.

One of the benefits of living where I do (rural) is that the beef I purchase comes from a local family farm (no hormones etc.) and the same with the free range chickens and eggs.
If I hear anything bad about them, I will give them up too.

[kestrel91316]

10. Chickens aren't given anabolic steroids. CATTLE are given anabolic steroids.

Just FYI.

Chickens have been selectively bred to be the freaks they are, just like turkeys. That's bad enough.

I watched Food Inc and nowhere in it does it say chickens are given steroids to make them the way they are. Of course, if you have hard factual information that you can provide a link to, and it's from a reputable source rather than fearmongering gossip, I'd appreciate it.

I remember the Ralgro anabolic steroid implants they used 25 years ago. Not sure what they put in cattle now. Ralgro v6.0, probably.

[uppityperson]

12. Those chickens are freaks indeed. Link from 2000...

http://envirocancer.cornell.edu/Factsheet/Diet/fs37.hormones.cfm

What are the different hormones used now by the meat and dairy industries?

There are six different kinds of steroid hormones that are currently approved by FDA for use in food production in the US: estradiol, progesterone, testosterone, zeranol, trenbolone acetate, and melengestrol acetate. Estradiol and progesterone are natural female sex hormones; testosterone is the natural male sex hormone; zeranol, trenbolone acetate and melengesterol acetate are synthetic growth promoters (hormone-like chemicals that can make animals grow faster). Currently, federal regulations allow these hormones to be used on growing cattle and sheep, but not on poultry (chickens, turkeys, ducks) or hogs (pigs). The above hormones are not as useful in increasing weight gain of poultry or hogs.

[kestrel91316]

14. As the clip says, they are NOT USEFUL in chickens or pigs. As I thought.

[flvegan]

13. Here's a thought...maybe stop eating them.

Just a thought. Not suggesting anything.

And with chickens, it's not steroids. It's genetics and antibiotics. Still stuffing shit in your piehole, though.

[B Calm]

16. I use to love fried chicken. Lately they taste like crap. . .