"cshenk" > wrote in message
...
> 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.


It's not true anyway. When Foster Farms goes on sale for .79 at a particular
store, it has nothing to do with how the chicken is raised, but what the
store is putting on sale.

Cheri