Bruce wrote in rec.food.cooking:

> In article >, cshenk1
> @cox.net says...
> >
> > Bruce wrote in rec.food.cooking:
> >
> > > In article >,
> > > gravesend10 @verizon.net says...
> > > >
> > > > Could have bought a 7 pound oven stuffer roaster where I live
> > > > for 79¢/lb... season and pop it in your oven.
> > >
> > > Are Americans really completely unaware of what goes on in the
> > > chicken industry? Don't you have decent media that report on
> > > things? Or is life only about money?
> >
> > Yes, most of us know such. Sheldon doens't even know that most
> > states tax food and the rate can be higher for 'pre-made' things
> > from the deli area.
> >
> > http://pilotonline.com/news/local/co...herty/high-tax
> > -on-
> > virginia-food-is-nothing-to-laugh-at/article_5597520e-b133-5b9e-9302
> > -908 29840d811.html
> >
> > It's not particularily astounding that I don't eat out much, or get
> > pre-made chickens here.
>
> It's just that if you're buying 79 cents per lbs chicken, you're
> going for the nastiest, cruelest, sickest kind of meat you can get.
> Both in terms of animal welfare and in terms of what you're putting
> in your mouth. You'd expect people in a cooking newsgroup to have at
> least some basic standards about what they eat. Here, most people are
> totaly blinded by the 79 cents.

Fine Bruce. Eat what you want.

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