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lazy farmers

jodywy

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http://westernfarmpress.com/blog/farmers-return-fire-panera-bread-company
It amazes me how social media allows American farmers and ranchers to respond when companies fire shots across agriculture’s bow. No longer can ridiculous blanket statements by marketers and media mavens with an agenda and a false premise go unchallenged.

Panera Bread Company recently garnered heavy return fire on Twitter and elsewhere after the company posted some over-the-top insinuations about the slothfulness of farmers and their use of antibiotics in chickens.

A Twitter account that has since been taken down accused poultry farmers of being “lazy” – their words, not mine – for using antibiotics. Do the marketing gurus at Panera and other self-righteous advocates mock and criticize their own doctors as “lazy” when they need antibiotics for diagnosed conditions, or do they snatch up their prescription paper and make a bee line for the local pharmacy?

“It’s very easy to sell fear,” said Martina Newell-McGloughlin on the topic of biotechnology at a recent regulatory conference of the Western Plant Health Association. Newell-McGloughlin directs the University of California’s Biotechnology Research and Education Program.

The U.S. Farmers and Ranchers Alliance talks about the necessity of keeping animals and healthy through the proper use of antibiotics and other approved means. Even farmers of organically-raised livestock use antibiotics, though the use forces them to later sell their livestock to conventional producers after the proper withdrawal periods have been met.

I know an organic dairy producer who does this. His personal ethos to produce organic milk doesn’t get in the way of his desire to raise his animals humanely and doing all in his power to keep them from suffering as much as possible, even if that does require the use of antibiotics.

While it remains to be seen how the latest boycott of Panera Bread Company pans out, agriculture has the tools through social media and blogs to promote its message of responsibility to consumers. Judging from the buzz on some social media sites, it seems to be working.
 

Zilly

Well-known member
Amazing isn't it, Jody? People get the sniffles and they run to the doctor for a perscription and don't think twice about ingesting the chemicals the doctor prescribed. Yet, if the folks who raised chickens did not treat them, those same people would be screaming about the death loss numbers and the price of chicken.
 

Mike

Well-known member
Careful or you'll have Flounder breathing down your neck. :wink:

Not that it matters, but he tries any way he can to belittle or downgrade a farmer/rancher.

And yes. He believes the rancher is responsible for overuse of antibiotics and Mad Cow.
 

Steve

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I haven't found out who supplies Panara.. but another liberal icon Trader Joes' takes about the same approach.

but guess where they get their chicken..

Consumers Union found that one major meat supplier, Ruprecht, Inc., already supplies both types of products to Trader Joe's. Much of the "no antibiotics" chicken sold at Trader Joe's comes from Perdue, and BC Natural, a Perdue-owned company.

ok i found panara breads chicken source.. yep a local family farm..

well not really..

Bell and Evans, a Pennsylvania poultry company with over 1,000 employees, has witnessed success as a result of the growing market for their chickens, which are raised without antibiotics and are given an all
- vegetable diet with no added preservatives or artificial ingredients
.
Bell and Evans partners with several major restaurant and grocery chains, including Chipotle Mexican Grill, Panera Bread Company
and Whole Foods market.

Bell & Evans is one of those producers who confuse otherwise-ethical shoppers. They say “free range,” and they now sell “organic free range” chickens and chicken parts. And when you’re in the store, and you’re looking at those versus completely unidentifiable chicken, of course you think you’ve made the best choice.

The life of a Bell & Evans chicken is one of luxury for an industrial chicken. But it’s still very much an industrial chicken and their marketing is still a gross misuse of the term “free range.” They live indoors, in gigantic climate controlled chicken houses, where the lights turn on an off at certain times and where water and food is mechanically distributed.

Their “organic” chickens are legally required to have access to the out of doors, but, of course, it’s really not much of a yard. The woman who took our call assured that “It’s not like they have to go out,” and revealed that they don’t, in fact, go out much at all. That’s a terrifying glimpse into the brainwashing that goes on in this world.

One of the big selling points of these birds is that they are “air chilled.” For those of you who don’t know what this means, it’s the alternative to water chilling slaughtered poultry. Some say it’s more sanitary to air chill them because these water baths chill so many birds. But the Bell & Evans people want you to know that water chilling is less ideal for consumers because the birds take on water weight, which we then pay for at the register. Instead, their birds are hung from hooks and cruise around a factory for TWO MILES in cold air.

so for those who care.. and go to penara bread because you think the chicken is better... it isn't any different than any other chicken factory..

stupid liberals..
 
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