Where was your meat made?

[Quiver0f10]

http://www.chickenthistlefarm.com/20...-was-made.html

I saw this on a friend's FB this morning. It's funny, sad and scary all at the same time LOL.

[therunbunch]

***graphic response... don't read if you just ate***

That's interesting. I was reading "What Would Jesus Eat" and it was talking about how inhumane butchering was and how they have a machine that "bludgeons" the cow before another machine slits its throat. It said sometimes the machine doesn't kill the cow like it's supposed to.. and then it heads to the slicing machine and since the cow is now thrashing about because of the non-lethal blow from the bludgeoning machine, that the slicing machine misses the throat.. so now the animals is bleeding out and STILL alive.. hanging upside down by it's foot moving along a conveyor. I buy local now.

People are naive (and I'm one of them). I also buy all my eggs local now too, and take great pride in knowing that the hens that laid the eggs are still alive, happy, and free-ranging.

People think hunting is inhumane? They should get a bit more educated about the "humane" practices of big industries.

[arabian knight]

This weekend is our towns broiler festival, and I ate a lot of chicken so far and will be having more for lunch today. May go and just get 2 pieces and take it home to eat while watching the Nascar race. Then have some more for supper time tonight. This is the last of the 3 day celebration. I eat my fill of this charcoaled chicken for a year, in these 3 days.
So I know right where my food was made, and came from.
There are plenty of chicken barns all around me, and the processing plant is 25 miles south of where I live. I even worked there for a spell.

[Windy in Kansas]

I prefer mine raised instead of made.

[arabian knight]

Oh yes mine was raised, just happened to be in a huge barn that is all. I am am having a couple of pieces of charcoaled chicken as I am posting this. Yummmm.

[Harry Chickpea]

You might want to get your money back on that book. Chickens are hung upside down, go through a shock bath and then decapitated. Cattle are led to a killing floor, killed with a bolt from a gun, the the floor is opened and they drop into the processing area. Your book has the two processes totally conflated and sensationalized.

Originally Posted by therunbunch

***graphic response... don't read if you just ate***

That's interesting. I was reading "What Would Jesus Eat" and it was talking about how inhumane butchering was and how they have a machine that "bludgeons" the cow before another machine slits its throat. It said sometimes the machine doesn't kill the cow like it's supposed to.. and then it heads to the slicing machine and since the cow is now thrashing about because of the non-lethal blow from the bludgeoning machine, that the slicing machine misses the throat.. so now the animals is bleeding out and STILL alive.. hanging upside down by it's foot moving along a conveyor. I buy local now.

People are naive (and I'm one of them). I also buy all my eggs local now too, and take great pride in knowing that the hens that laid the eggs are still alive, happy, and free-ranging.

People think hunting is inhumane? They should get a bit more educated about the "humane" practices of big industries.

[arabian knight]

You got that right. So much of things like this have been flopped around on the net over the years, without much on truth, and way over on sensationalism.

[Harry Chickpea]

My momma always said that a good meat meal would stick to your ribs. I wonder if I have parasitic pork chops down there...

Meat glue. Eh. Not much different than hide glue. You don't want to be around an old furniture shop on a warm day. For that matter, being around an old cow on a warm day isn't all that much fun either.

[MaineFarmMom]

Lisa Ling went to a slaughter house. The video is a little graphic. It doesn't show the killing but it does show everything else.

http://www.oprah.com/oprahshow/Insid...terhouse-Video

[Harry Chickpea]

I like the way you worded that first sentence. Has anybody informed her kids?

The caption under the video (which wouldn't play on my protected computer system) is also informative:
"Investigative reporter Lisa Ling goes behind the scenes of a slaughterhouse to see how meat is made. "

BEHIND the scenes at a slaughterhouse? There is a "behind the scenes there"? I bet all those cows who are waiting in the wings for a chance to be on stage must be smoking cigarettes and rehearsing their lines.

How meat is made... REALLY. Do they hire inner-city kindergartners to write their captions? "How we make carrots on our farm", by Suzie Chreamcheese. "How to make an apple" by Johnny Appleseed.

[Tracy Rimmer]

Changes need to be made, without question, but if the 7 billion people on the planet all want to eat a Western-style diet, and North Americans want to continue eating FOUR TIMES the daily dietary requirement of animal-based proteins, the fact is, industrialized farming is the only way to do it.

[Farmerwilly2]

More like SIX TIMES for this ole boy. It is a well know scientifical fact that meat is an insulator that can keep bread from shorting out IF there is enough in between both slices. It is true though that a well balanced diet requires some vegatables, thus nature invented slices of onion, maters, lettuce and miracle whip as well as sliced pickels. If you hold said samich in one hand and a cold beer in the other you should be pretty well balanced.

[Quiver0f10]

I am sorry, I wasn't trying to argue about humane farming or not. I just thought it was funny that the writer didn't know meat wasn't made at the store LOL.

Originally Posted by Farmerwilly2

More like SIX TIMES for this ole boy. It is a well know scientifical fact that meat is an insulator that can keep bread from shorting out IF there is enough in between both slices. It is true though that a well balanced diet requires some vegatables, thus nature invented slices of onion, maters, lettuce and miracle whip as well as sliced pickels. If you hold said samich in one hand and a cold beer in the other you should be pretty well balanced.

I like your simple, yet eloquent explanation. However, miracle whip is of the devil. Real men use Dukes mayonnaise, and only Dukes.

[tinknal]

When other meat eaters whine about hunting or killing your own food I pointedly ask them "so you HIRE your killing done?"

[Harry Chickpea]

Originally Posted by tinknal

When other meat eaters whine about hunting or killing your own food I pointedly ask them "so you HIRE your killing done?"

I love that image. Three guys with dark pinstripe suits and fedora hats drive onto a feedlot, walk up to a steer, and say "Jimmy Twofingers has a message for you. You will be sleeping with the fish sticks tomorrow."

[luvrulz]

Originally Posted by Harry Chickpea

I love that image. Three guys with dark pinstripe suits and fedora hats drive onto a feedlot, walk up to a steer, and say "Jimmy Twofingers has a message for you. You will be sleeping with the fish sticks tomorrow."

I see a Farside cartoon when I read this...

[Ravenlost]

Anyone watching this season's Food Revolution on TV? Jamie Oliver is having a hard time trying to get into L.A. schools. It's amazing how dumb those teenagers are about where their food comes from (did you know honey comes from bears and cheese comes from noodles?).

BTW...I know where MY meat comes from...the woods of North Alabama where my brother and BIL hunt deer. I raise my own eggs and will eventually have my own milk and cheese if I can just break hubby down and convince him we need a cow or some goats. Until then I am going to buy those products locally. I try to avoid buying any meat at the grocery store and haven't bought beef in at least three years now.

[haypoint]

I know a couple of people that don’t like the idea of slaughterhouses and can’t stand the slimy raw meat in the grocery stores. They prefer the canned, premade stuff or the frozen pre-cooked meals. I tried to explain that the processed beef and chicken comes from old, worn out milk cows and exhausted laying hens. Apparently, that is information the consumer doesn’t want to hear.

A major Michigan egg producer, Herbrick’s, is now selling eggs from free range chickens and organic eggs, available by the millions. Didn’t take industry long to hop onto that fad.

As an aside, the cattle pens and chutes, shown in the slaughterhouse video, are likely designed by the cattle expert, autistic Temple Grandon. If interested in cattle or autism, get the movie by that name.

[salmonslayer91]

if that there is the correct definaition of a balanced diet im definatly positivly perfect...