Comments on: Getting the Best Deal on Poultry

By: mom-and-rn

mom-and-rn — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 03:52:31 +0000

Another blurb on eating organic chicken. I find that when I buy cheap chicken it is full of fat so really I think I am paying less and getting less edible meat. They are fat because they sit in a cage and do not move plus they give them hormones to make them grow faster. We all know that hormones are stored in fat. I am finding in WA state that a lot of the organic foods are only pennies more. I try to make up for the organic meat cost by serving smaller portions of the meat and larger portions of vegies, fruit and ha ha of course dessert! I don’t care how frugle you are you have to have after dinner dessert!

By: L

Sat, 26 Dec 2009 03:13:24 +0000

This is great, I always wonder the same thing. Thanks

By: CarrieK

CarrieK — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 16:57:49 +0000

Please, please consider how the bird was raised before you buy it. Yes, properly raised birds cost more, but they are worth it. Consider this: you get what you pay for and you can pay now or pay later (with poor health) I could write about the deplorable conditions factory birds are raised in, the disgusting diet they feed them, I could write about the chemicals and pharmaceuticals involved in raising factory birds, I could write about the long term contamination of the water supply and the ground….but I think all of you need to do the research yourselves. We have been conditioned to believe we deserve and need cheap food. Cheap food equals poor health. Go read anything by Michael Pollan. Go google Polyface Farm. There are people out there properly raising meat the way God meant…and they are not going broke buying it or eating it. When more people demand healthier meat, when there becomes a market for healthier meat, the big agribusinesses will start to listen. End of lecture