I remember growing up seeing Foster Farms commercials saying they don’t do this. It was the main theme of nearly all their ads.
When I was a teenager, I got a job at the local Foster Farms plant. My job was part of the process of injecting the chicken with saline. 😬
There should be a class action lawsuit against Tyson and Perdue,.etc. We pay by the pound for chicken, not saltwater.
You save all your chicken receipts?
Of course, don’t you?
Im a madman, but not THAT mad.
Mandatory “in the US”.
While this one is technically legal in the EU, it would require labeling the salty water as an ingredient if it changes the weight significantly.
It’s labeled in the US. You’ll see language like “may contain up to N% x, y, z solution” etc.
However that would require us to read
Also to help packaging n shelf life. Chicken production and processing facilities are both morally and biologically disgusting.
It’s not “processing”. It’s murder. Call it what it is.
Ill agree that what we do to most chickens is deplorable. That said words are made by humans w certain meanings. Murder is reserved for something human and something unlawful.
Maybe mass slaughter? conveyor belt slaughtering?
Weird fact. Did you know a human once decapitated a chicken and it still lived for a year? Google it if you don’t believe.
That said words are made by humans w certain meanings.
And these humans have a vested interest in making sure that a death of their own is treated differently than a death of a chicken. That human lives are somehow more precious, sacred whereas those of pigs and chickens meaningless.
Of course this is reflected in human language. This is like excusing racism in english by “well the english made those words up w certain meanings” here is a good video about “the oppressors language” in a different context https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYpM0qF9kZY .
Yup! Though if you shop around you can avoid it and some chains, like Trader Joe’s, tend to include less as far as I can tell (except recently with those big breasts of theirs?). Not even that much more expensive but definitely a jump in quality. A Sprouts nearby also has fantastic chicken.
I’ve been meaning to visit the carnecerias near me, though. Getting meat at any specialized store tends to cook better, anyway, but I’m a little shy since my Spanish is terrible and last time I tried they didn’t speak English. Lots of pointing and gestures, lol.
chicken comes in price ranges. the highest price range is usually double what the lowest is.
TJ has 2-3 ranges of chicken products. the higher end ones don’t do this, but the really cheap bulk ones probably do and a lot of cheap low end chicken in cheaper stores definitely do.
just like they have 4 kinds of eggs, with the cheapest begin 3 dollars and the high end ones being 6-8.
I was talking about this is a thread last month and got downvoted and harassed for it by people who seem to think pre-made super market chickens were a great healthy way for poor people to get protein… people just refused to believe how unhealthy it was and that it was processed food and kept complaining how raw whole chickens were awful by comparison or something…
