SC - Craspois

[LYN M PARKINSON]

They drop the plucked birds that are freshly gutted into a large tank of
icewater to firm up the flesh before handling it, head and feets on. I don't
know how many of you have ever seen a commercial chicken battery, but they
live in their biological waste product, which becomes ingrained into the
pores of the skin on the feet and under belly.  The resulting water bath
spreads out the filth evenly, and they only get a cursory rinsing off before
the final packaging. If you take your lovely fresh from the package bird and
look at the pores carefully, you will find small pin feather stubs, blood
clots from recently lost feathers, and little birdy black heads[ to be a bit
euphemistic about it.] I have had dinner guests wondering as they watch me
manipulate the skin under running water and thoroughly washing my chicken-at
least until I show them what I am washing off the poor lil beastie. Even
when we nackered our own birds, I took the same amount of care in preparing
them for cooking.
margali
- -----Original Message-----
>My Lady,
>I have to suspect that if you saw how meat is handled nowadays before it
lays
>swathed in poly & styrofoam that you wouldn't eat it either.  Most people
are
>ignorant of the meat processing industry.  The key thing is-- most of us
>prefer to remain ignorant and pretend meat appears in the supermarket meat
>cooler.
>
>Who knows how many days their supermarket meat has been slaughtered before
it
>shows up in the meat case?  Not I.  How can we responsibly assume that our
>society (which trucks beef across the continent) actually puts fresher meat
on
>our tables?  Frankly, I'm with Ras (A'aql, gesundheit!).  They probably had
>fresher meat than we do.
>
>~~Minna Gantz <KALLYR at AOL.COM>


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