Re: Dark meat to light meat




"OmManiPadmeOmelet" <Omelet@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> >> It looks like meat to me...... ;-)
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>> >> I know it's been saline treated, but I don't particularly care.
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>> > No, I was thinking more of how it had been raised. And killed.
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>> The reason I got chickens is because I objected to the close quarters
>> cages
>> and lack of feathers. After watching the way chickens can pick on each
>> other free range, I shudder to think what happens in close quarters.
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> They de-beak them to prevent that.

That's alright then.
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>> What I don't know is how they are killed. Dead is dead, right? Isn't it a
>> clean fast humane death? i would think it would be uneconomical to be any
>> other way.
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> The birds are electrostunned.
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> If it's good enough to execute humans, why not birds?

It doesn't kill in the levels used on animals.

It doesn't always stun either.
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