"BD" > wrote in message
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>A good documentary about the food industry in the US. I have to find a new
>way to purchase chicken. I already buy beef from a farmer by the
>hindquarter, and produce from the CSA.
>
I have not seen this documentary, and am not sure if I will. They take the
very worst of the industry and exploit those images. I grew up on a farm,
and my father was a cattle feeder. We certainly did not mistreat a valuable
animal. We also raised hogs for slaughter. Again, never mistreated and
raised humanely. We raised chickens for our own family consumption. They
were allowed range in the fenced in pen, and had protected roosting at
night. They ate only organic foods. They did taste very good, but we let
them get a little bigger than the current grocery store chicken.

The problem is that we as a society demand cheap meat, and that has lead to
factory type settings for raising the animals. Yet, we do love a bargain at
the meat counter.

Later,

DP