Won't eat THAT again...

miss_missa07

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?

those chickens could have died of anything, so there is very little chance that campbell's puts them in any food designed for human consumption. they would eventually be caught, and this would be the end of the entire brand, overnight.

i've actually worked in food safety product development, and i tend to take every food horror meme on facebook with about a pound of salt.

Not to mention, it doesn't make much sense from a business stand point to drive around to a bunch of little farms to pick up dead chickens. You have to figure that, even if the chickens have been sitting there a while, there probably will still only be a few chickens to pick up, unless the farmer is horrible at his job and is killing chickens left and right. The driver would have to stop by a bunch of these small farms in order to get enough chickens for even 10 cans of soup, a number that is easily eaten between two households in a short matter of time. Considering how expensive gas is, these trips don't make much sense.

It makes a lot more sense for the company to raise their own chicken and slaughter them. I'm not going to say that the conditions those chickens live in are great--I doubt they are--but it makes more economical sense this way.

mama1229

Gross! That reminds me of the show Food Inc. and what they showed about Tyson chicken. The chickens were alive but living in awful conditions and grown to be so big breasted that they could not even walk.

Tyson takes about 20-30,000 baby chickens, puts them in a chicken house that is about 1/4 mile long and 6-7 weeks later the birds are ready for your dinner table. Tell me those birds are not full of hormones. :sick: From baby, to a 5-7lb bird in 6 weeks is crazy talk.:noway: I have never watched the movie FOOD Inc but I know how Tyson works on a personal level. It amazes me how quick the birds grow. I don't know about the whole Campbell's Soup debacle but I do know that the "dead truck" would come around and pick up Tyson's dead chickens for the dog food manufacturers.

tomomatic

This doesn't sound kosher...on so many levels...

Seriously, if you want meat that's been slaughtered properly, look for the kosher or halal symbols on the package.

shreyaj

Watch Food Inc. -- excellent documentary it's on Netflix, it will change the way you eat forever, or at least make you think twice about the food choices you make.

lovinbeinold

Sorry, I accidentally posted the same thing twice. See no way to delete the post.

coyoteo

I would honestly rather eat soup made from chickens that were raised on a farm and dead already than ones that lived their lives just to die. Just me though.

1smemae94

I am so glad I don't eat that junk anymore...

2hungariangirls

If we aren't supposed to eat animals why are they made out of meat?

LOL-I had a friend that had a bumper sticker with that on it.

kekl

Meat is delicious and I will never stop eating it. Bring it on!

Two things I will never have are McDonald's sweet tea and any frappachino beverage. I used to work there and had to make them... the tea is 5 lbs of sugar, 5 gallons of water, and a tea bag. The frappachino mix is just half and half, chocolate syrup, and coffee syrup blended with ice. Holy sugar batman!

jazzalea

I'm in Canada, so that MIGHT make a difference,


but I find that very hard to believe....

we lived on a dairy farm and raised cattle and with the laws the way they are now you have to pay to have deadstock remove any dead animals... Any animal that dies on it's own away from a proper kill facility is unfit even for animal food.

Additionally laying hens medicated and innoculated and that would prohibit them from being used for human consumption for sixty days even at the end of their productivity....


I'm thinking urban myth

jazzalea

Ewwwww but freshly dead chicken is still freshly dead chicken.

Rather eat a dead one than a live one

ywilliams125

OMG!!!!!

kimiel51

I had a friend in high school tell me all about hot dogs. I refused to eat them for years. Then I got over myself.

LOL!!

PaleoPath4Lyfe

Just my opinion. I have not been a big meat eater for years. But a few years ago almost entirely quit eating beef and now I don't eat it at all. Once in a while I will have a little turkey, not much.

My reason for my feelings about beef is that a farmer put in a feedlot next to my house. If you ever want to be "cured" of wanting to eat beef, go check out a feedlot. Or go out into the country and check out how some people keep their animals. It might concern you a bit. Or it might not.

Keep in mind too, the cows die in fear, but have no choice but to step forward to get the hammer, each one in her turn. It ain't purdy! I want nothing to do with it, so refuse to eat the products of that industry now.

With turkeys I doubt it is a lot better. But I haven't been that up close to turkeys. I can't justify eating meat at all. But I am not very adept at getting protein on my anti inflammatory diet, so a couple of times a month I do eat a bit of turkey.

Not all farmers treat and keep their livestock in horrid conditions. I am surrounded by cattle and dairy farms that are all pastured and grass fed.

I actually get raw dairy and beef from 2 of these farmers. The best meat I have ever eaten.

arianeari

I guess it would be better to have soup made of chickens who got their throats sliced and left hanging to die from chocking on the blood, or being plucked and boiled while still alive. just saying. pretty much no humane method of slaughtering animals for human consumption

seems its the whole idea that the chickens had been dead for some x amount of time and began to rot. which would make me go hmm at anyone selling or trying to buy them.

calliope_music

part of the reason i'm vegetarian. now i just need to back away from the eggs and cheese.

sweet110

Have you seen this on FB recently??


http://a5.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/400527_10150599900219813_744434812_10988797_307297832_n.jpg


Can You Guess What McDonald’s Food Item This Is? Say hello to mechanically separated chicken. It’s what all fast-food chicken is made – things like chicken nuggets and patties. In addition, the processed frozen chicken in the stores is made from it. Basically, the entire chicken is smashed and pressed through a sieve — bones, eyes, guts, and all. It comes out looking like this. There’s more: because it’s crawling with bacteria, it will be washed with ammonia, soaked in it, actually. Then, because it tastes gross, it will be reflavored artificially. Finally, since it is weirdly pink, it will be dyed with artificial color.

Not trying to defend the McNugget. But the truth is bad enough without adding untruths to the mix. For a more balanced view, check out: http://www.snopes.com/food/prepare/msm.asp

kalepowered

I have a hard time believing that, simply because a big company like Campbell's probably doesn't need to go running around to all sorts of small farms collecting dead chickens for soup. That being said, very few things that go on in the meat & dairy industry surprise me anymore, and that's why I'm vegan. If you're concerned about where your food comes from, books & movies especially have made it more than easy to find out, despite attempts to keep things hush-hush. The information is all there, you just have to look at it.

mama1229

I'm in Canada, so that MIGHT make a difference,


but I find that very hard to believe....

we lived on a dairy farm and raised cattle and with the laws the way they are now you have to pay to have deadstock remove any dead animals... Any animal that dies on it's own away from a proper kill facility is unfit even for animal food.

Additionally laying hens medicated and innoculated and that would prohibit them from being used for human consumption for sixty days even at the end of their productivity....


I'm thinking urban myth

In my area Tyson had two types of farms. Corporate farms and Contractor farms. On corporate farms there were typically 7-8 houses with 20-30,000 chickens in each house. These chickens were placed in the houses as hatchlings and were raised to "full grown" in about 7 weeks. The birds were pumped full of steroids and growth hormones(very evident in the color of the food in the feed troughs). As the birds grew larger over the 7wk period it was not uncommon to have 100's of "dead" on a daily basis, especially in the summer months. The "dead truck" would make rounds to all the corporate farms and pick up the chickens that had died from various causes. These trucks were then sent to the local dog food manufacturer where the dead chickens were irradiated and ground up for filler in hard dog food. Don't know how the US handles beef but I know for a fact how they handle chickens(Tyson Farms, anyway). The pullet (laying hens) houses were completely separate from the chicken houses and those birds were never processed for human consumption.