If You Buy and Eat Chicken Meat (very traumatic)

It's not every day that Tree Hugger and PETA agree on the same thing. Well, it's not every day that anyone agrees on anything with PETA nowadays. However, the chicken industry has bahavied unacceptably for many many years.

Please remember to support your local organic chicken growers or grow your own chickens!

Warning: this is very traumatic - baby chicks are ground alive

Hatchery Horrors: Video Shows No Mercy for Baby Chicks By Christine Lepisto

New Undercover Investigation: Chicks Ground Up Alive from PETA

Chickens at work, Part 2

In one of my previous posts I wrote about my new approach to letting people know that we have a massive chicken farm. I was just testing which way is better for me - letting people get to know me first and then telling them about our chickens OR just telling people that we have hordes of chickens and see what happens. Telling people upfront apparently has worked better!!! The proof is the picture above. Today the organization-wide email went out to invite everyone to the company's annual picnic. The picture of chickens playing soccer was a part of it! It's wonderfully weird, can't describe it.

Buying poultry

Photo: nukeit1

Here is another article on buying poultry from Wisebread - Supermarket Angst Part III: How to Buy Better Poultry. I can't put it better - community agriculture is the way to go. You have to go and see for yourself where your chicken comes from. You need to visit your meat, ask questions. The more you know, the better you eat.

However, growing chickens moved us closer to being vegetarians. Farmer Boy is a meatarian. He likes his steak. But if you look at our consumption of meat since he got chickens - we eat less meat. I still buy turkey and chicken meat from Costco and organic black Angus (once a year) from Trader Joe's. Overall, we eat less meat. Part of it, I signed up for Terry's Berries farm share (about $28-30 a month). We get a lot of veggies and fruits, which forces us to eat it all within the same week. It also simplified my cooking and spending. I am forced to cook and eat what we already get.