Won't eat THAT again...

gadog430

If you REALLY start to pay attention to what is in processed foods you will cry daily. I am working and learning to get away from anything that comes to me processed. It is just really poison.

rebawagner

It taste good right?... end of story. go chinese food!

LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Pocket_Pixi

I am not sure that organic is really the way to go. You really want farm raised. Have you seen Food Matters? They talk about organic a little bit. Organic is a little better but not by much.

True but then again there is grocery store organic and farmers market orgainic and you CAN taste the difference between them. I think If you want true organic you have to grow your own - you know what in there. As for meat - go to a farmer and buy your stuff there.

ilookthetype

Seeing "Food Inc." helped tip me toward organic. Doing more research on "organic" made me decide i wont eat animal products if i don't know where they came from and how they were treated. Just because they are "organic" doesn't mean they lived a good life and weren't in messed up living situations

Exactly. This is why I'm trying to move toward sustainable farming.

bynsky: that was awesome

Spinelli2288

My boyfriend and I are buying a free range cow, pig, and chickens this year to put in our new chest freezer. We're both hunters and we know where the deer/rabbit/duck/goose/turkey comes from, and the way we kill it is far more humane than the meat you get at your local grocery store. One thing I REFUSE to eat is foie gras, they force feed those poor ducks and half of them die before they can even take them to a butcher. Another great thing, we get to pick our own cow, pig, and chickens. We also get to see the process so we know the animal didn't suffer.

CHEFCH♥ZZ

IM NOT BUYING THAT A BILLION DOLLAR COMPANY IS BUYING A PILE OF DEAD CHICKENS FROM SOME DANK BARN TO USE IN THEIR PRODUCTS. WTF??
:laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

2hungariangirls

I don't know your friend or what you do in Oklahoma, but here in SC we are actually about 30 miles from the Campbell's plant. I've seen so many trucks of LIVE chickens going there since I was a small child. It is big business here in our town to have chicken houses and sell to that plant. I know a few chicken farmers personally. I not calling your friend a liar, but I find that hard to believe. IMO

oceanrose78

This makes me SO relieved that I am a vegetarian!

^^^^^^ This. I make myself a huge pot of vegetarian soup every week on Sundays. Don't miss the meat at all.

JamesonsMommy

This is why campbells soup is so cheap... They don't have to pay a chicken killer.. If it wasn't safe to eat they wouldn't sell it I prefer homemade myself

vinylscratch

Would you rather people didn't eat them and they rotted and the animals were able to give nothing back to us?

This is how I feel about hot dogs... sure they're made of whatever and it might not be your cup of tea, but those otherwise unusable parts are allowing the animal to give back to someone.

I like to envision the entire natural world like the Giving Tree and we're the only ones who doesn't understand how to properly give.

think48

SO weird because I saw the title of the post and assumed it would be people posting about foods they can no longer eat. My very first thought was, "I'll never eat Campbell's soup again. The thought of it makes me gag." and I had NO idea about what you posted. I just think it's nasty and when I open a can, I gag.

Interesting.....

Secret_Agent_007

this is why I make all my soup out of live chickens.


wait.

wut?

Uh oh, here comes the thread about the chicken pee diet. *eyes rolling*

JamesonsMommy

This makes me SO relieved that I am a vegetarian!

^^^^^^ This. I make myself a huge pot of vegetarian soup every week on Sundays. Don't miss the meat at all.

I went vegetarian over the summer and the only reason i went back over to the dark side was chicken broth...lol Silly i know but i love mrs. grass soup...lol Killed me not to eat it all summer

UsedToBeHusky

Honestly, never cared for Campbell's anyway. I like Progresso and Healthy Choice.

JennBrown83

@Bynsky, LMAO!! I LOVE Douglas Adams and I nearly died laughing when I read that scene in "The Restaurant at the End of the Universe" for the first time, thanks for the laugh again!!!

As for who or what goes into chicken soup... who cares? Chicken is chicken, I use chicken when I make my homemade soup. The only canned soup I eat on a regular basis is Campbell's sodium reduced tomato and PC Blue Menu Tomato & Roasted Red Pepper.

I'm with everyone else, the chicken's gotta come from somewhere. Now unless he's leaving the chicken sitting there for an extended period of time to where it becomes inedible that's a different story but really, all animals have to killed at some point before we can consume it, so really who cares????

rebawagner

Did you think the chickens were alive?

Confused here

I guess for me its just the vision of having a pile of dead chickens on the ground that were not slaughtered for their meat but died for whatever reason and tossed out. I know there are people that "Dumpster dive" for food but I never really thought of food companies doing it?!

maab_connor

A large dairy animal approached Zaphod Beeblebrox's table,
a large fat meaty quadruped of the bovine type with
large watery eyes, small horns and what might almost have
been an ingratiating smile on its lips.

'Good evening', it lowed and sat back heavily on its haunches,
'I am the main Dish of the Day. May I interest you in the parts
of my body?'

It harrumphed and gurgled a bit, wriggled its hind quarters in
to a more comfortable position and gazed peacefully at them.

Its gaze was met by looks of startled bewilderment from
Arthur and Trillian, a resigned shrug from Ford Prefect and
naked hunger from Zaphod Beeblebrox.

'Something off the shoulder perhaps?' suggested the animal,
'Braised in a white wine sauce?'

'Er, your shoulder?' said Arthur in a horrified whisper.

'But naturallymy shoulder, sir,' mooed the animal contentedly,
'nobody else's is mine to offer.'

Zaphod leapt to his feet and started prodding and feeling
the animal's shoulder appreciatively.

'Or the rump is very good,' murmured the animal. 'I've been
exercising it and eating plenty of grain, so there's a lot
of good meat there.'

It gave a mellow grunt, gurgled again and started to chew
the cud. It swallowed the cud again.

'Or a casselore of me perhaps?' it added.

'You mean this animal actually wants us to eat it?' whispered
Trillian to Ford.

'Me?' said Ford, with a glazed look in his eyes, 'I don't mean
anything.'

'That's absolutely horrible,' exclaimed Arthur, 'the most revolting
thing I've ever heard.'

'What's the problem Earthman?' said Zaphod, now transfering his
attention to the animal's enormous rump.

'I just don't want to eat an animal that's standing there
inviting me to,' said Arthur, 'It's heartless.'

'Better than eating an animal that doesn't want to be
eaten,' said Zaphod.

'That's not the point,' Arthur protested. Then he thought about it
for a moment. 'Alright,' he said, 'maybe it is the point. I don't
care, I'm not going to think about it now. I'll just ... er ... I
think I'll just have a green salad,' he muttered.

'May I urge you to consider my liver?' asked the animal,
'it must be very rich and tender by now, I've been force-feeding
myself for months.'

'A green salad,' said Arthur emphatically.

'A green salad?' said the animal, rolling his eyes disapprovingly
at Arthur.

'Are you going to tell me,' said Arthur, 'that I shouldn't have
green salad?'

'Well,' said the animal, 'I know many vegetables that are
very clear on that point. Which is why it was eventually
decided to cut through the whoile tangled problem and breed
an animal that actually wanted to be eaten and was capable of
saying so clearly and distinctly. And here I am.'

It managed a very slight bow.

'Glass of water please,' said Arthur.

'Look,' said Zaphod, 'we want to eat, we don't want to make
a meal of the issues. Four rare stakes please, and hurry.
We haven't eaten in five hundred and sevebty-six thousand
million years.'

The animal staggered to its feet. It gave a mellow gurgle.
'A very wise coice, sir, if I may say so. Very good,' it
said, 'I'll just nip off and shoot myself.'

He turned and gave a friendly wink to Arthur.
'Don't worry, sir,' he said, 'I'll be very humane.'

It waddled unhurriedly off to the kitchen.

Douglas Adams actually DID know the answer.

ummlovelovesyou

This is partly why I am vegetarian.

:flowerforyou:

ajbeans

Did you think the chickens were alive?

Confused here

I guess for me its just the vision of having a pile of dead chickens on the ground that were not slaughtered for their meat but died for whatever reason and tossed out. I know there are people that "Dumpster dive" for food but I never really thought of food companies doing it?!

So because they died of old age or whatever, that's somehow more gross than a chicken who was raised solely to be killed?

Kilotango55

Have heard that pie manufacturers by whole cows, freeze the carcasses and grind them up bones, skin and all. Not sure they can still get a way with since CJD...but it wasn't unknown in the 80s just wish I can remember the name of the manufacturer...quite well known (UK)

CiciPorcayo

Well I will say this... we can't trust our food companies plain and simple.... gurantee our governers and political people don't eat anything but organic or fresh grown. They know what the food industry does with our foods... lol They are funding it. Hormones, Antibiotics... etc etc etc...! I am not a fanatic on the whole eat organic, food comapnies torture animals but.. I did watch Food Inc. , I am a mother, and I have a heart lol Soo I would say organic is much healthier, and a lot less bad for you... but now a days, What isn't bad for you?

dbratton87

What is wrong with everyone? You never eat livestock that died from unknown causes! It IS totally different than a slaughtered animal. It is incredibly stupid and unsafe. That said I don't believe that story. I cook with cream of chicken on occasion and don't plan on stopping.

AnninStPaul

So a friend of mine on FB just posted about how her dad is an egg farmer and that he always has a pile of dead chickens in the corner of the barn (such is farm life). Campbell’s soup comes and buys all the dead chickens...not sure what happens next but that is all I needed to hear?! The more I read and learn the more I am convinced about an organic lifestyle! There goes canned soup! Have you ever heard anything like this that made you change your eating habits?

I highly doubt that the dead chickens go directly in to a food product - more likely mixed in with other organic waste to fertilize crops. Many food companies contract out the growing of specific strains of vegetables that optimize their recipes.

FDA and USDA do not allow use of animals that died other than during the slaughter process in human food (I can't speak to animal feed), and if the fact that Campbell's buys dead chickens is so widely known by farmers as to be posted on FB, it would not escape regulators etc. It would have made the national news and the practice changed.

brandieb123

OMG!!! Yes I read an article yesterday infact about what chicken nuggets are made of...GROSSSSSS!! Alot of processed meat has the bones, eyes, colon in it. We all know how companies like to cut corners sometimes and then spiffy them up if DHEC or OSHA or FDA comes in....imagine what is put in food when no one is watching!

Dtho5159

I prefer Progresso lower sodium minestrone soup. Still not as great as homemade but its on hand if we need a quick meal.

committomittxoxo

this is why I make all my soup out of live chickens.


wait.

wut?

First of all.. that was HILARIOUS.
But yea.. consumers don't have any idea what they're eating in general. I heard a story about pickles once that pretty much changed the way I look at wild animals.. and urine for that matter. Thanks for the tip.. No pickles, and now, no Campbell's. And I'm sure we all know not to eat hot dogs.. unless you want to eat pig snout.

rachel_d_b

I just watched a documentary titled Forks Over Knives...it changed my life. I am now serious about reading the labels of what I ingest...I never even thought about some of the stuff that is marketed for us to think is healthy until I watched this. You definitely have to be aware of what it is you are buying.

UsedToBeHusky

So a friend of mine on FB just posted about how her dad is an egg farmer and that he always has a pile of dead chickens in the corner of the barn (such is farm life). Campbell’s soup comes and buys all the dead chickens...not sure what happens next but that is all I needed to hear?! The more I read and learn the more I am convinced about an organic lifestyle! There goes canned soup! Have you ever heard anything like this that made you change your eating habits?

Was your friend an original poster? Or was this a "chain" status update? I'm willing to bet that has been copied, pasted, and spread more often that the flu.

PaleoPath4Lyfe

I just had a bowl of Campbells soup for lunch, and now I want to puke.

Yeh, I'll be making my own soup from now on.

It's scary how much we don't know about where our food comes from...

That is why it is important to ditch the boxed, packaged, frozen convenience foods and find local sources to purchase your food.

The majority of all the grains, vegetables and fruits in the stores are GMO. I want no part of GMO products.

I get Compassionate certified Pork, free range (like just run around the yard and scrounge up food, bugs, grass, etc) chicken and eggs, Beef and dairy come from local farms.

We no longer eat fish unless we go catch it ourselves. All of our fruits and vegetables are pretty much what is grown in local organic green house, CSA membership or if we do buy a few things from trader joe's, dierbergs or whole foods - it is organically certified.

I know where my food comes from. I can go directly to the source except for a few items.

PaleoPath4Lyfe

this is why I make all my soup out of live chickens.


wait.

wut?

First of all.. that was HILARIOUS.
But yea.. consumers don't have any idea what they're eating in general. I heard a story about pickles once that pretty much changed the way I look at wild animals.. and urine for that matter. Thanks for the tip.. No pickles, and now, no Campbell's. And I'm sure we all know not to eat hot dogs.. unless you want to eat pig snout.

YUM, I eat pig snout BBQ'd on the grill. It is awesome.