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Default those supermarket rotisserie chickens

In article >, says...
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> "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.


Do you really think that a .79 cent chicken has been raised under
reasonable circumstances? You're not stupid.