Mmm. . . .Chicken!!

[munkee]

Chickens today are selectively bred for size and growth rates.

They are kept in sheds that have light for up to 23 hours per day and almost no space to move. They eat more and move less so the majority of energy consumed goes to growth rates.

Why does whiter meat mean not fed growth hormones?

[liasis]

i get day old chicks and i feed them crushed grains and by 6 weeks they are huge i dont let them get that big as they are to big for my snakes so if they grow that fast at my place how are they getting growth hormones it a myth do your research first they havent fed growth hormones sincew the 60s if your family red the chickens hormones they are breaking the law

[cement]

Originally Posted by liasis

Antibiotics Policy of the
Australian Chicken Meat Industry

Version 2. 26 October 2005
Executive Summary
The primary objective of the chicken meat industry is to produce a healthy food. Chicken meat produced in Australia is healthy and nutritious. Eating chicken meat does not expose consumers to antibiotic residues or antibiotic resistance.
Antibiotics are substances that kill or inhibit the growth of bacteria and related microorganisms and are essential in human and animal medicine.
The use of antibiotics in chicken meat production in Australia is limited to two important functions:

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therapeutic agents (ie applied to treat the clinical symptoms of a bacterial infection)

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prophylactic agents (ie applied to healthy animals deemed to be at risk of infection to prevent disease occurring).

This policy sets out the guiding principles for the chicken meat industry to ensure that:
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development of antibiotic resistance is minimised; and

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chicken meat is not contaminated with antibiotic residues.
The industry funds research into alternatives such as vaccines for the use of antibiotics in chicken production, both at an industry-wide and individual company level. It also universally supports the Australian Government’s National Residue Survey, which conducts regular independent checks of residues of antibiotics in chicken meat in Australia. This testing has consistently shown that chicken meat does not contain residues of antibiotics in Australia.

Would i be right in guessing that this policy was put together by the people who sell heaps of chickens. Or is it the people who sell the drugs that go into the chickens. Be careful with these types of documents they are not always what they seem.

[munkee]

Someone also mentioned children being bigger than their parents. The average human height has been steadily increasing over the past 200 years.

This is mostly due to better diet and nutrition for the general populace. Not hormones in food products or Voodoo or sleeping hanging from a tree.

I'm on a bit of a rant tonight aren't I?

[liasis]

look out everyone theres a huge conspirecy they are trying to make us grow into giants look out for the ufos

[grimbeny]

I definatly read in a mcdonalds pamphlet that all their chicken meat is from hormone free chickens. I also read in a Dr KArl book which i have somewhere that hormone use in chickens has been banned in australia for a long time. This does not mean the chickens havnt been selectively bred to grow super fast or produce insanely large breasts. Not to mention if chickens r caged for 6 weeks its unlikely they r going to be able to stand up afterwards.

[munkee]

The governments of the world had a 'We are taller than you' for the last 300 years.

[munkee]

Meat chooks aren't caged usually. just crowded in by other chooks so not much room to move

[kabuto]

Hey guys just go for the rats you cant beat them for packing on the growth.I would be concerned if these chickens have enough nutritional value in relation to the energy expended for digesting them?

[liasis]

chickens have more meat than a rat does can someone prove that there is more nutrtional value in rats then in chickens

[Inkslinger]

Pros and cons rats are leaner have a higher iron content both have about the same calcium Chicken is very fatty beaks can be a problem have seen some nasty wounds from pythons eating chicks rare but does happen. The best of the lot espec from large pythons are rabbits. The worst guinea pigs hair is way too long and can cause major problems

[Inkslinger]

Originally Posted by liasis

look out everyone theres a huge conspirecy they are trying to make us grow into giants look out for the ufos

Never seen a UFO!!! that does not mean they dont excist. Unlike UFOs the chicken thing is fact can be verified, do your homework, growth hormone is still used as are antibiotics,
also you should not eat chicken before an exam or where you need to have good brain Brain function, there is an enzyme that naturally occurs in chicken that slows the brain function down turkey has one that makes you tired.

[liasis]

hows this for homework

Old–fashioned myths about food still dominate many Australian consumers’ eating habits.
In research conducted by the AFGC in October 2001, the nation’s top three food myths—unsafe to refreeze meat after it has been thawed, red food colouring makes children hyperactive and chickens are fed growth hormones—all were wrong!
3. Chickens are often given growth hormones to improve production
Unfortunately, a large number of people in Australia still believe that chickens are fed hormones. In part, this stems from a television program in July 1985 in which hormonal abnormalities in young women in the Caribbean Island of Puerto Rico were linked to feeding of hormones (oestrogen) to chickens.
Without actually saying so, the story implied that the feeding of oestrogen to chickens was a common practice worldwide—and indeed a practice followed in Australia.
However, the feeding of oestrogen to chickens was banned in Australia in the early 1960s—more than four decades ago.
In order to maintain consumer confidence in poultry products, the Commonwealth Government’s National Residue Survey (NRS) regularly tests for growth hormones. No residues have ever been detected. NRS test results can be obtained from the NRS website www.nrs.gov.au/residues/residues.html or by calling (02) 6272 3446. 80% of people surveyed believed this myth to be true.

The process of adding growth hormones or steroids to chickens was banned in Australia in the early 1960’s. The reason for the myth is that there was a case of hormones being fed to chickens in South America in the 1980’s which led everyone to think that the practice was occurring world-wide. The Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry also tests chicken meat regularly and no hormone residues have ever been detected. So you can rest assured that the Australian chicken you buy is free from added hormones.

[Inkslinger]

and if you believe that you will also believe they are free from chemicals pesticides antbiotics ,
ROFLMAO

[Snow1369]

Okay then, i just wanted to show some pic's and hear the opinions on them, but. . . . . . this is good. lols, i don't wanna argue but i've allways heard that chickens are full of hormones, but you can't be sure unless you see it first hand so i'm not going to make assumptions weather they are or aren't i'll just agree!