Say we are sitting down to a nice fried chicken dinner. Beneath the crunchy layers is the large, juicy breast. But if see most chickens you will notice that they are smaller. So where do these mammoth breast come from? Well if you are asking….
Most chickens from the stores are found on farms. Once upon time, these farms had chickens that took 85 days to grow from baby chicks to adulthood. Now it takes 45 days. The chickens are growing so rapidly that they are now having issues with their hearts, lungs, legs, etc. These new chickens are growing so fast that their bodies cannot support the weight and pressure that they are under. Chickens now are being diagnosed with brittle bones and are dying from malformed hearts quicker than we can grow them. Many growing rooms allow for 20,000 chickens or one bird for 130 square inches, which gives these chickens little to no room to grow.
Once these chickens are ready to be slaughtered, they are loaded onto a conveyer belt that slits their throats. With as many as 8,400 chickens being killed an hour some chickens are being boiled alive as they are over looked by the machines.
Food is our sustenance, yet we never think where it comes from. These chickens are being genetically modified to grow larger and faster. What are these hormones doing to our body and what are the lasting effects? As these practices are relatively new, there is not much known about the long term effects on our bodies. However, I can safely say that knowing how our food is treated makes me think twice about what I put into my mouth.
Reference http://www.chickenindustry.com/cfi/broilerindustryreport/
(look at the pictures if you dare...see how your chicken is grown.)
(look at the pictures if you dare...see how your chicken is grown.)
I think you have the right idea. I have always tried to be careful what I eat. I do not like that I can see how the food is prepared that I eat. You never know what you could be getting.
ReplyDeleteBrittle bones? Malformed hearts? Makes me sick to think about it.I agree with you Jess, Makes me think twice about wanting to put it in my mouth also.
ReplyDeleteOk so the brittle bones did not freak me out as much as malformed hearts did... that's scary it sounds like godzilla chicken! I makes me definitely want to watch was kind and size of chicken I am eating.
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