In article >,
Dave Smith > wrote:

> OmManiPadmeOmelet wrote:
>
> >
> > You just have to learn to pick and choose. A LOT of generics
> > are canned by the same places as the name brands! It's all in the
> > labelling.
> >
> > Same with turkeys. All those "name brand" turkeys come from the SAME
> > turkey farms and the SAME processing plants! They just get bagged with
> > different labels, or special injection treatments to order.
>
> It's not like the big companies have their own poultry farms. There are
> plants
> around with processing facilities and there are poultry farms. The eggs go
> to
> hatcheries. A farmer goes in and orders a bunch of hatchlings and sticks them
> in a
> big bran to eat and grow for 6-8 weeks. Then it gets to the point where they
> are
> not growing enough to get a return on the money it costs to feed them, so off
> they
> go to the processing plant. If someone else in the area has a barn full of
> birds
> ready to go at the same time, they don't get as much for the birds. If no one
> else
> has birds ready to go they get a better price. The consumer has no idea what
> farm
> their birds are coming from, and sometimes not even what country they are
> coming
> from.
>
>

Yep!!!
I took ag classes in high school and was in the FFA.
We toured processing plants.

They are all the same birds from the same farms!
--
Om.

"My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-bitch." -Jack Nicholson