Viewer Disrection! Animal Cruelty From Farm To Fridge

Chickens have been caged for sometime. We have had massive chicken coups on the stock-framing side of the family for decades.

Two many dangers to have a chicken free range.

If or when they do escape-get out, we let the younger siblings do a "round up"

I have done many taste-tests on people...free range chicken (of the same breed) tastes no different than caged animals.

Its pacebo
 
Because something has happened for a long time does not make it a good idea.

Because you would have to change the way you do something to suit does not make something else a bad idea.

Mitch
 
Agree. However, people cry foul because chickens or animals for food consumption are slaughtered

Actually, processed animals are treated far better than in the past.

Mainly, because of the "investment"
 
This is again nonsense.

Top quality free range chickens definately definately have a gamier taste that just isn't there is caged birds.
 
As much as it pains me to say this...I actually agree with martial man to a degree.
And I never thought I'd say that.
Much like tasting expensive wine compared to cheap wine much of the difference in taste is down to expectation and perception rather than an actual perceivable difference. Some of it is even snobbery I think in that people want to be seen to know the difference between the two. Don't tell people which one they are eating or drinking and the ability to distinguish diminishes.
Now I'll be the first to admit that my tastes are basic but I think the difference (in taste and nutrition) between a basic free-range chicken and a pretty good battery hen (if you can call it that) will be minimal. Find the very worst water filled cut of battery hen you can and the best free-range fillet and most could tell the difference but in the middle, where much of the chicken people eat really is, the difference will be imperceptible to most (even the ones that say they can tell the difference).
 
While it's very easy to seek out labels such as "free range" (a meaningless term by the way) and "cage-free" and even "pastured", the reality is that it can be quite difficult to really figure out just what that means. Here's a good article about the various terms, and what the journalist encountered in trying to sort them out. ... http://www.salon.com/2011/01/20/what_chicken_labels_really_mean/

Local butchers may be readily available in the UK, but not so much in the US. Here, it's all about profits, and manufacturers will paste whatever label they can if it gains them more sales. The only way to really know just what you're getting is to either raise your own, or join a local food co-op and become involved in how the animals are raised.
 
When you agree with me, sometimes pain can be good (unless you are a masochist)

I have performed chicken and egg taste tests on people (My sister is one of those health-organic-anti hormone...yada.. etc people)

I have also performed beer taste test on people

Its all "in the mind"
 
"People" being one person it seems, or am I wrong? How many people have you tested your theory on and what exactly was the test?

How was the meat prepared, was it a blind tasting and what were the control measures?
 
In my school days on school holidays i would work on my Uncles farm my Auntie had 50 chickens that would roam in the day and back in the coup at night, they were fed all the leftover food scraps from the house as well as chicken pellets, the eggs were bigger then supermarket eggs the color of the yolks were a deep orange almost red color and the taste fantastic buy far better then any egg i have bought from the big stores, either you get your eggs from a supplier where you can see what is going on or you will never really know for sure but the color of the egg says allot for the health of the chicken anyway thats my experience.
 
I have definitely noticed a difference in yolk colour between shop bought eggs and the home raised, free range eggs that friends have given me. The other thing I've noticed in recent years is the lack of double yolks you get in shop bought eggs. I've not seen a double yolk egg (from shop eggs) in years, yet have seen several in eggs from friends chickens.
 
Holy crap. I haven't seen a double yolk since maybe I was 8! There must have been a meeting about missing out on profits from making double yolks so they developed a system of chemical and hormone treatment to keep it from happening. Bastards!

On another note, I haven't seen a wishbone since the last time I saw a double yolk! And I eat a lot of chicken! We need to get the conspiracy theorists on this. They're purposely trying to make sure we don't get extra nutrition or wishes!
 
The color of the yolk and difference in taste is mostly a product of the breed of chicken combined with the food it eats. Those hybrids created for factory egg production are not the same breed that most people will have on their farm and allow to free range. Also, the feed given to factory egg chickens is designed to foster docility and increase egg production. It is far different from what most farm raised chickens will be fed.

There are a lot more factors that influence the taste and quality of any meat other than the way it was raised or slaughtered, not that these don't have an influence.
 
I am far more concerned with factory farm raised veggies. There is huge difference in the flavor of the factory raised and home grown. Plus no pesticides being absorbed into my salad, that is on the side of my store bought cow product.
 
I have yet to see any demonstrable difference in taste that is anything other than placebo
 
Agreed but that was what i was getting at, all the scraps and left overs from the house were a much better diet and the chickens were the ordinary run of the mill white ones its just that they had much better living conditions and feed, very happy chooks.
 
Scraps and leftovers meaning cabbage leaves, lettuce leaves, carrot peelings, rice, apple cores etc etc etc without going into every thing that was thrown out everything organic and the chicken feed that you by from the farm feed suppliers, chickens love eating all the left over fruit and veg that doesn't get used.
 
Chickens even eat each other's poop. And do so even after being fed regular food
 
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