Conventional Chicken (confined birds ) . May Contribute to Poor Health … Corvid -19 is not the only one……part 77

Feeding poultry vegetarian diet is also mainly because it is cheap, it's chicken junk food. ( pellets ) Chicks fed in the wild by their parents are on an exclusive invertebrate diet, even if the parent bird is an omnivore.

They need this to grow both physically and for the nervous system, feathers are made from protein and they need those quickly to both keep warm and to be able to avoid danger.

Incidentally feather pecking which is an aggressive/stress related behavior in birds, is due to deficiency in amino acids, in particular l--methionine and also the B complex vitamins, in particular B12 and B9.

Jungle fowl foraged through the cereal fields not to eat the grain but the insects and other invertebrates that lived upon the plants. Similarly with meat, my experience of growing my own food and eating organic for over 20 years, is that I can taste the components of diet (and/or rather lack of them) if I eat commercial organic, where the animal has been fed on a restricted diet.

With vegetable oils, even used in organic products, you can taste poor quality ingredients, I have just eaten an organic nut chocolate spread, which unfortunately had very small writing for the ingredients, the canola oil in it I discovered immediately by its overpowering taste, I then got out the magnifying glass.

These huge corporations which produce and supply the majority of commercial foods would be out of business tomorrow if the people who purchase and eat their product would retrain/regain their sense of taste. Above all it would mean an end to the obscene practice of battery farming.

Even if ones relationship to food is totally divorced from reality, how anyone can eat an egg or meat from a poor, miserable confined bird is beyond me. In an awful way, Poultry gets its revenge for its horrid short life.

I had a talk with a butcher at Fresh Market yesterday about how they advertise their chickens are fed a vegetarian diet. I remarked that chickens are not vegetarians! He agreed with me that it’s probably to appeal with people who are concerned about health but who really don’t understand the truth. How sad!

I also find that because I (and all other pastured chicken farmers I know of) have to give my flock a considerable amount of supplemental feed through the lean winter months, that the best time to slaughter is in the fall after they've had all summer to forage on the bounty that the monsoons bring, which makes this region the bug capital of the US.

Many bugs are great sources of omega3 fatty acids and that translates into meat birds with a good omega3 profile. Same goes for my pigs, who also love to eat bugs. As far as those lean winter months go, I'm getting closer to a healthier diet for my birds, less dependent on commercial supplemental feed.

It involves a sizable composting operation, which produces a lot of soil life that can survive in the warm compost through the winter. This keeps the birds active, scratching through the compost looking for those critters. I've also developed some good sources for vegetable and fruit waste thrown out by some nearby health food stores. 

Combined, those can reduce the amount of supplemental feed .

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Thank you …The food system has been a total disaster for decades. Once again; we're "Preaching to the Choir". What has changed?

It has gotten worse! Almost daily; when I read grocery store flyers, I see new players - and they are not promoting "healthy" food.

The zombie masses are so locked into the "Fake Food" phenomenon, that they are incapable of making healthy choices.

I have extensive experience attempting to explain this situation to hundreds of people over the years and I assure you - they don't want to hear it.

I'm just waiting for the global collapse to unfold. As far as I can see; nothing is going to stop this tsunami of evil.

People think I'm weird; because I refuse to eat certain (non)foods; even after I explain it to them. The lame stream media has been brainwashing and conditioning the masses since they began (that's their primary purpose!).

They call the media "Programming", for a reason! I would love nothing more, than for this society to change for the better. All I've seen; is this society descending further and further, with no evidence that it will change any time soon. I am a realist.

You need only take a long, hard look at our current situation to see where humanity is headed. I'll state this again; as nobody seems to be listening...this covid nonsense and the tyranny that continues to grow, is only beginning!

I doubt if this society has even ten years left. This entire planet and the people; which includes plants, animals, fish, bees, butterflies... are all being systematically destroy; and by what? The Love of Money and the sheer GREED that accompanies it! We're living in the "New Reality"!

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Chicken in Canada (and pork) are not raised with hormones but beef is and it's why I'm reluctant to eat it. (Canadian dairy is also hormone free). 

I do occasionally eat free range chicken but lately my diet has been mostly vegetables, extra virgin olive and virgin coconut oils, nuts, wild fish and some unprocessed whole grain. I worry about the mercury in wild caught fish though.

I eat it about five times a week. The veg is also a worry with herbicides and pesticides so I eat organic when possible. Even so our food supply is slowly killing us and it isn't right. There' always something that is 'bad for you' coming out almost monthly.

Problem is I don't see any healthier than the people I know who eat badly of processed foods, sodas, artificial sweeteners and bad rancid oils and in many cases my health is worse.

"Raised without hormones" is nothing more than a marketing ploy; nothing but mass deception. Companies are in business to make money - period! I would go into great detail; but, if people don't understand "the system" by now; they never will!

 A prime example of deception, is when Subway announced that they were removing the "Yoga Mat" chemical from their bread.

Do you believe in any way, that this makes their "fast food" healthy?

Fraud, Lies, Deception and Illusion.

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Non-ruminant meat, such as chicken and pork, contain 0.9 and 0.6 mg/g low CLA, (Conjugated Linoleic Acid) respectively. This is because monogastric animals do not have any significant amount of bacteria in their digestive system to produce CLA.Food sources originating from ruminants (such as cattle) are known to have markedly higher CLA concentration than those from monogastric animals.

Turkey meat has the highest CLA content of 2.5 mg/g fat among non-ruminant species. Dietary inclusion of conjugated linoleic acids in poultry diets would be of great advantage to consumers. In addition, through the consumption of conjugated linoleic acid enriched meat and egg products, the human population would have gained conjugated linoleic acids that are crucial for health and well-being.

This review attempts to provide an overview of the available data on conjugated linoleic acids in poultry meat, products originating from different poultry species, as well as the observable inclusion effects of conjugated linoleic acids in poultry

www.tandfonline.com/.../10942912.2016.1168835 

Turkeys are a conundrum, of the good kind. Having raised both I can say that, in a pastured setting, turkeys will eat far more grass and other forms of vegetation than chickens. I'm thinking they may have some form of gut microbe that helps them convert a higher ratio of CLA.

Turkeys also eat a higher percentage of insects high in omega3 lipids. If one considers the native habitat of turkeys (temperate, 'edge' ecosystems, with lots of ground level vegetation) with that of chickens (tropical forest floor with very little ground level vegetation) it becomes clear that turkeys may have evolved to make better use of a higher percentage of grass and other vegetation than chickens. 

They are two very different birds, not only in terms of how they forage and what they forage on, but also in terms of their meat and eggs. I find pastured turkey eggs and pastured turkey meat superior to pastured chicken in every regard.

 Heritage turkey breeds raised on pasture will be mostly dark meat, a sign of a much higher ratio of mitochondria. Sadly, most pastured chickens these days are Cornish crosses, bred to grow to a harvestable size in 2 months.

These birds will have mostly white meat - a very low mitochondria count. Even 'cutting edge'. You can't speed up Mother Nature. Building in a good mitochondria level takes times. Unfortunately the market demand for turkey meat is seasonal and their egg production is dismal. Hence, the popularity of chickens.