Re[2]: Re: OT: Food Inc, the movie

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Peeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeter.....I am just finishing a chicken sandwich.

Barth

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PB> At 03:18 PM 7/19/2009, you wrote:

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>>this really isn;t off topic due to the amounts of mycotoxins that

>>are allowed in foods like peanut butter or pork. No wonder I can't

>>eat eggs, have you seen what they feed them??

PB> LOL I eat a lot of organic eggs. Only organic and free range. The

PB> feed is anything growing

PB> in the yard/range (weeds, grass, flowers, bugs, flies, worms,

PB> ...). And rocks. About 1/4th

PB> rocks. Seriously. It aids their digestion by forcing more stomach

PB> acid to be released.

PB> So, yes, what hens eat can drive you right away from eggs. LOL.

PB> And grains as the bulk of the food, only organic grains. No slop for my

eggs.

PB> Now, what they feed non organic hens, that is truly appalling, I

PB> would think. :-(

PB> Did you know that 1/10th of all chickens sent to the slaughter die before

PB> arriving? They can not be slaughter, but it happens. And that 1/3th or

PB> so have cancer? If the cancer is " obvious " then the bird is not sold

PB> whole. However, now a days, as of this decade, in the USA, such

PB> a bird can have the 'bad' part cut off and discarded, while the rest

PB> of the bird is sold in a shrink wrap as parts? Thus, 1/3rd of all chicken

PB> sold has cancer, that you then eat? Remove parts of the bird you do

PB> not recognize, like the red globules joined by a fiber, and the bunches

PB> of white globules, that look like fat. Not that you can get cancer from

PB> well cooked chicken, but undercooked chicken, no one knows. Hmm,

PB> perhaps even from well cooked chicken, no one knows.

PB> Point is, never cook anything you do not recognize.

PB> Ditto for putting anything in your mouth, to eat or otherwise.

PB> I only buy whole birds now a days. Less risk of them having cancer.

PB> And only organic free range. Due to exercise, there is less cancer.

PB> Due to being feed organic food, less toxins, less cancer causing

PB> toxins, I eat mostly organic chicken, or rarely trusted other brands.

PB> Though some brands, Rosie, is not organic, or some like 's do

PB> an okay job.

PB> Yes, I do eat chicken at restaurants. They get premium chickens,

PB> though they are not organic. I try for half chickens mostly.

PB> Chicken burritos as well. Sigh. A perfect world it is not.