Who Eats Chicken?

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Just a few facts to get this thread rolling -

1. Chickens are filthy birds. It doesn't bother them at all to nestle into excrement-filled nests and lay eggs that are so covered with excrement that the chicks have a hard time pecking their way out.
2. Free-range chickens eat essentially anything they can peck. Their gizzards (stomachs for the rest of us) are filled with gravel which is used to grind up the hard bits of stuff they swallow.
3. Most chickens today are not free-range, but are raised in confinement and fed a strict diet to produce the desired outcome. For example, if people like good, yellow meat and fat, then they are fed yellow dye.
4. Chickens have a wide variety of breeds which have specific characteristics. A popular breed of chicken has no feathers (makes plucking them a dream come true) and has such an insatiable appetite that they frequently die, choking on their feed. They grow very quickly as a result and find their way onto the plates of hungry Americans.
5. Chickens peck each other to establish a "pecking order" in their society. This results in wounds to the birds sometimes so severe that they die. Roosters, in particular, are useful for fighting purposes because of this trait.
6, Chickens have been bred so that they lack any intelligence. They cannot fly, although some breeds do to limited degrees. They cannot forage for themselves or protect themselves from predators.

My question is - Why would anyone in their right mind want to eat chicken?

 

[Dark_Lite]

Chicken tastes good.

 

[LittleLambofJesus]

*snip*

My question is - Why would anyone in their right mind want to eat chicken?

I generally place my mind "on hold" when eating

 

[Sphinx777]

Chicken is the meat derived from chicken. It is the most common type of poultry in the world, and is frequently prepared as food in a large number of different ways.

The modern chicken is a descendant of Red Junglefowl hybrids with the Grey Junglefowl first raised thousands of years ago in the northern parts of the Indian subcontinent.

Chicken as a meat has been depicted in Babylonian carvings from around 600 BC. Chicken was one of the most common meats available in the Middle Ages. It was widely believed to be easily digested and considered to be one of the most neutral foodstuffs. It was eaten over most of the Eastern hemisphere and a number of different kinds of chicken such as capons, pullets and hens were eaten. It was one of the basic ingredients in the so-called white dish, a stew usually consisting of chicken and fried onions cooked in milk and seasoned with spices and sugar.

U.S. chicken consumption increased during World War II due to a shortage of beef and pork. In Europe, consumption of chicken overtook that of beef and veal in 1996, linked to consumer awareness of Bovine spongiform encephalopathy or B.S.E.

Modern varieties of chicken such as the Cornish Cross, are bred specifically for meat production, with an emphasis placed on the ratio of feed to meat produced by the animal. The most common breeds of chicken consumed in the US are Cornish and White Rock.

Chickens raised specifically for meat are called broilers. In the United States, broilers are typically butchered at a young age. Modern Cornish Cross hybrids, for example, are butchered as early as 8 weeks for fryers and 12 weeks for roasting birds.

Capons (castrated [bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse]) produce more and fattier meat. For this reason, they are considered a delicacy and were particularly popular in the Middle Ages.

Typically, the muscle tissue (breast, legs, thigh, etc), livers, hearts, and gizzard are processed for food. Chicken feet are commonly eaten, especially in French and Chinese cuisine. Chicken wings refers to a serving of the wing sections of a chicken.

Exotic parts like pygostyle (chicken's buttocks) and testicles are commonly eaten in East Asia and some part of South East Asia.

Chicken eggs are commonly eaten.

 

[LittleLambofJesus]

Chicken tastes good.

 

[Kristos]

Just a few facts to get this thread rolling -

1. Chickens are filthy birds. It doesn't bother them at all to nestle into excrement-filled nests and lay eggs that are so covered with excrement that the chicks have a hard time pecking their way out.
2. Free-range chickens eat essentially anything they can peck. Their gizzards (stomachs for the rest of us) are filled with gravel which is used to grind up the hard bits of stuff they swallow.
3. Most chickens today are not free-range, but are raised in confinement and fed a strict diet to produce the desired outcome. For example, if people like good, yellow meat and fat, then they are fed yellow dye.
4. Chickens have a wide variety of breeds which have specific characteristics. A popular breed of chicken has no feathers (makes plucking them a dream come true) and has such an insatiable appetite that they frequently die, choking on their feed. They grow very quickly as a result and find their way onto the plates of hungry Americans.
5. Chickens peck each other to establish a "pecking order" in their society. This results in wounds to the birds sometimes so severe that they die. Roosters, in particular, are useful for fighting purposes because of this trait.
6, Chickens have been bred so that they lack any intelligence. They cannot fly, although some breeds do to limited degrees. They cannot forage for themselves or protect themselves from predators.

My question is - Why would anyone in their right mind want to eat chicken?

My chickens asked me the same thing. I told them as long as they lay eggs that aren't covered with poo, I will let them live.

 

[Bro_Sam]

1. Chickens are filthy birds. It doesn't bother them at all to nestle into excrement-filled nests and lay eggs that are so covered with excrement that the chicks have a hard time pecking their way out.

That's odd, I raise chickens and haven't found that to be the case. Excrement on the nests, sometimes, if the coops aren't properly cleaned out and the chickens aren't able to go out enough. Excrement on the eggs, no.

3. Most chickens today are not free-range, but are raised in confinement and fed a strict diet to produce the desired outcome. For example, if people like good, yellow meat and fat, then they are fed yellow dye.

Actually, our chickens eat grass and bugs and have never dyed a chicken.

They cannot forage for themselves or protect themselves from predators.

Not sure where you heard that chickens can't forage, but that's pretty much what nature has designed them to do.

My question is - Why would anyone in their right mind want to eat chicken?

Because it tastes good.

 

[Stryder06]

Chicken tastes good.

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[Sphinx777]

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[LittleLambofJesus]

Just a few facts to get this thread rolling -

1. Chickens are filthy birds. It doesn't bother them at all to nestle into excrement-filled nests and lay eggs that are so covered with excrement that the chicks have a hard time pecking their way out.

My question is - Why would anyone in their right mind want to eat chicken?

:o Did you really have to bring that up

 

[Blackknight]

All these food threads are making me hungry.

 

[tadoflamb]

Chicken is the meat derived from chicken.

And it tastes like chicken.


I got one of them lil' beer can thingies where you place the chicken over the beer can and cook it on your grill.

It's reeeeeeeeeeal good.

What are organic vegetables grown in?

 

[Dark_Lite]

What are organic vegetables grown in?

Organs of course.

 

[MrPolo]

I eat it. It tastes good. It provides me with a good supply of protein, not to mention vitamin B, zinc, and iron.

 

[TheOtherHockeyMom]

I prefer seitan (or tofu).

 

[b.hopeful]

I don't eat chicken( or any other animal) but I would like to bow down and kiss their excrement covered feet for giving us the glorious egg.

 

[tadoflamb]

Chicken fajitas, chicken pot pie, chicken and rice soup..................

 

[tadoflamb]

BBQ chicken, fried chicken, chicken almondine...........

 

[tadoflamb]

Chicken tacos, chicken burritos, chicken enchiladas.............

 

[CaliforniaJosiah]

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1. I like chicken.
2. God made chickens to eat.
3. I realize that chickens are alive before they are killed. And that they are evidently fairly intelligent creatures. And all but free range chickens (which I don't buy cuz they are expensive) have a pretty misable life. I just don't think about that.
4. I would never kill a chicken (heck, I try not to kill spiders - I try to scoup them up and take them outside). But I do eat them. I just don't "connect the dots." I don't with most things I eat.
5. A friend of my family growing up lived in the country. They had geese. They were MEAN. They killed them for Christmas dinner. I was glad.



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