Why Do We Love Chicken So Much?

[Mike]

http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2015/03/why_do_americanslove_chicken_s.html#incart_river

The competition is ratcheting up the pressure.

 

[backhoeboogie]

It tastes like chicken.

 

[Mike]

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/b9faf4f7f4f44ae5acdff0d6daa94356/influence-game-meat-industry-fights-new-dietary-proposal

Red meat doesn't fit the "Climate Change" speak..............................

 

[Traveler]

As the EPA goes after your backyard grill. It's all interrelated.

http://video.foxbusiness.com/v/4116932335001/epa-considering-regulations-on-backyard-bbq-grills/?#sp=show-clips

 

[mrj]

My first inclination as an answer to this post q: "why do we love chicken so much?" was to say we love chicken because we can make it taste like something else so easily! Flip answer and not really true, as when I buy chicken from the colony, it is really great tasting fixed in any traditional way, fried, roasted, or boiled to serve with dumplings!

These links, especially the one to the AP story show what we really need is more accuracy and honesty. The writer seems so bent on making ogres of the people supporting/defending the use of meat in a healthy diet, and so lacking in questions of the lady in the decision group who implies that red meat is over-consumed. Surely anyone involved in those decisions has access to the facts, particularly that red meat is one of few food groups consumed at or below recommended levels! And that the nutrients in beef and other meat are often lacking in diets, are available in meat at a low 'cost' in calories to nutrients, and so much more in favor of not only including red meat, but of emphasizing that we need be sure to consume enough of it!

mrj

 

[Faster horses]

My first inclination as an answer to this post q: "why do we love chicken so much?" was to say we love chicken because we can make it taste like something else so easily! Flip answer and not really true, as when I buy chicken from the colony, it is really great tasting fixed in any traditional way, fried, roasted, or boiled to serve with dumplings!

These links, especially the one to the AP story show what we really need is more accuracy and honesty. The writer seems so bent on making ogres of the people supporting/defending the use of meat in a healthy diet, and so lacking in questions of the lady in the decision group who implies that red meat is over-consumed. Surely anyone involved in those decisions has access to the facts, particularly that red meat is one of few food groups consumed at or below recommended levels! And that the nutrients in beef and other meat are often lacking in diets, are available in meat at a low 'cost' in calories to nutrients, and so much more in favor of not only including red meat, but of emphasizing that we need be sure to consume enough of it!

mrj

Well done! :clap:

 

[andybob]

There is definitely a difference in taste in our "free range" chickens, and their being moved behind the cattle and sheep helps with parasite control, while adding valuable fertiliser to the soil to speed the pasture recovery for the next cycle.
We are continuing to build up our soils through livestock production, and apparently strong large volumes of atmospheric nitrogen - still busy studying this aspect.

 

[Faster horses]

If you like chicken, better get it bought as the bird flu is costing millions and resulting in many chicken farmers losing their flocks.

 

[cowman52]

Speak for yourself, don't do fowl, period

 

[Mike]

There are some large scale chicken growers around here that won't eat chicken.

 

[Faster horses]

Mr. FH says "it's called fowl (foul) for a reason"...