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Gofirstclass

Gofirstclass

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Wednesday is the day the grocery store ads come in our local newspaper. As I was perusing them I came across one that still has me shaking my head.

A store named Grocery Outlet (which my wife calls "Gross Out") had an ad for frozen Norville Farms turkey. The headliner for that part of the ad describes the turkeys as:
No antibiotics ever
Vegetarian Fed
No added growth hormones
Humanely raised

VEGETARIAN FED? For crying out loud, it's a meat product. What the hell difference does it make if it was vegetarian fed? Are VEGANS all of a sudden going to start eating meat because the turkeys were vegetarian fed?

With all those disclaimers and descriptors, it makes me wonder two things:
1. How in the hell did the pioneers ever make it with regular, old turkey:
2. What the hell kind of wimpy people live in this country that this store is pandering to?

Give me a frickin' break.
 
Maybe its because of the risks associated with feeding animals other animals meat byproducts. I can't recall if it was real or fake news but there was a scare a few years ago that Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease could be contracted from sheep that had been fed brain tissue from diseased sheep that had died of a similar brain degeneration disease. I think some countries banned feeding animals with feed made from brain and spinal tissues of other animals.

So I agree it seems weird, but to be honest, if I had to pick between a turkey sandwhich made from turkeys fed on corn, and one made from turkeys that ate slaughter-house byproducts that were not even good enough for hotdogs........I know which one I would pick.
 
Why are there no 120 year old vegetarians and vegans? Seems like despite what PETA says on its web site, there is not a huge difference in life expectancy between those of us that eat well balanced diets that include tasty meats (in moderation) and those that don't.

If someone said to me today that they could guarantee that instead of dying at 88 I will die at 90 if I spend the next 34 years eating nothing but weeds, twigs, seeds and bark, I will take the 88 thank you very much.

Those last 2 years would be boring anyway, hanging around with a bunch of 89 and 90 year old self-righteous vegans that probably won't drink either.
 
Gofirstclass said:
Wednesday is the day the grocery store ads come in our local newspaper. As I was perusing them I came across one that still has me shaking my head.

A store named Grocery Outlet (which my wife calls "Gross Out") had an ad for frozen Norville Farms turkey. The headliner for that part of the ad describes the turkeys as:
No antibiotics ever
Vegetarian Fed
No added growth hormones
Humanely raised

VEGETARIAN FED? For crying out loud, it's a meat product. What the hell difference does it make if it was vegetarian fed? Are VEGANS all of a sudden going to start eating meat because the turkeys were vegetarian fed?

With all those disclaimers and descriptors, it makes me wonder two things:
1. How in the hell did the pioneers ever make it with regular, old turkey:
2. What the hell kind of wimpy people live in this country that this store is pandering to?

Give me a frickin' break.
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Creekwood nailed it on this one. As a boy I went out with my grandmother as she used a hook to snag a chicken by the neck, then wrung the neck by hand, (she probably had more wrist strength than most men today.) plucked the feathers, cut it up and fried it. Makes me hungry and nostalgic just thinking of it.

Chickens will eat some meat, some manufactured chicken feeds have meat by-products, these feeds have spread disease. There is nothing wrong with feeding chicken meat, however, my grandparents personally managed every single chicken, and diseased animals were burned, no chance of spreading disease. In the mega farm system, such monitoring is impossible. It is best practice to not feed animal by-products...

MM
 
A few years ago we had a mad cow outbreak in a town very close to us.
It was determined that it was because the cows were fed meat byproducts in their feed.
 
MonacoMike said:
Creekwood nailed it on this one. As a boy I went out with my grandmother as she used a hook to snag a chicken by the neck, then wrung the neck by hand, (she probably had more wrist strength than most men today.) plucked the feathers, cut it up and fried it. Makes me hungry and nostalgic just thinking of it.

Chickens will eat some meat, some manufactured chicken feeds have meat by-products, these feeds have spread disease. There is nothing wrong with feeding chicken meat, however, my grandparents personally managed every single chicken, and diseased animals were burned, no chance of spreading disease. In the mega farm system, such monitoring is impossible. It is best practice to not feed animal by-products...

MM
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It might not be good feed for some animals but humans are consuming most everything one way or another, they just don't know it. Read up on animal byproducts and their uses. If it doesn't get eaten then it's used for something else. Nothing is wasted, it's pretty interesting especially the medicines....even horse piss is useful. How about beaver ass(castor)? My cousin the trucker often delivers tankers of blood used for human consumption.
 
Woody said:
It might not be good feed for some animals but humans are consuming most everything one way or another, they just don't know it. Read up on animal byproducts and their uses. If it doesn't get eaten then it's used for something else. Nothing is wasted, it's pretty interesting especially the medicines....even horse piss is useful. How about beaver ass(castor)? My cousin the trucker often delivers tankers of blood used for human consumption.
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MMMMmmm. Black pudding.....
Not sure about the horse piss, but I think its called Coors light.
 
Woody said:
It might not be good feed for some animals but humans are consuming most everything one way or another, they just don't know it. Read up on animal byproducts and their uses. If it doesn't get eaten then it's used for something else. Nothing is wasted, it's pretty interesting especially the medicines....even horse piss is useful. How about beaver ass(castor)? My cousin the trucker often delivers tankers of blood used for human consumption.
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I completely get that, but the fact remains that feeding animal by-products to animals is not the best course of action and I avoid when we can.

MM
 
Oh so now turkeys can't be vegans too? Geeeezzzz. <sarcasm>...lol
 
Turkeys are the dirtiest animals on earth. Advertising as vegetarian fed is BS. They eat worms, bugs, cockroaches, and their own sh!t.... Pigs don’t even eat their own sh!t....
 
PMU stands for Pregnant Mare Urine. The hormones in the urine are used to manufacture Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) products for women. The most commonly known drug produced with equine urine is Premarin®, now manufactured by pharmaceutical giant Pfizer (Pfizer purchased Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, the original manufacturer of the drug, in 2009). Other products include Prempro®, Premphase® and the newly approved Duavee®—a combination osteoporosis-menopause drug. In 1990, Premarin® was the most widely prescribed drug in the United States and in 1997 it became Wyeth’s first one billion dollar drug.
 
Creekwood said:
Maybe its because of the risks associated with feeding animals other animals meat byproducts. I can't recall if it was real or fake news but there was a scare a few years ago that Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease could be contracted from sheep that had been fed brain tissue from diseased sheep that had died of a similar brain degeneration disease. I think some countries banned feeding animals with feed made from brain and spinal tissues of other animals.

So I agree it seems weird, but to be honest, if I had to pick between a turkey sandwhich made from turkeys fed on corn, and one made from turkeys that ate slaughter-house byproducts that were not even good enough for hotdogs........I know which one I would pick.
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But what if the turkey ate gmo corn?
 
If you were starving would you even think about it?
 
tc410 said:
Turkeys are the dirtiest animals on earth. Advertising as vegetarian fed is BS. They eat worms, bugs, cockroaches, and their own sh!t.... Pigs don’t even eat their own sh!t....
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Geese are the worst as far as dirtiest!!
 
tc410 said:
Turkeys are the dirtiest animals on earth. Advertising as vegetarian fed is BS. They eat worms, bugs, cockroaches, and their own sh!t.... Pigs don’t even eat their own sh!t....
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They do! They have evolved so that the young get undigested food from the older birds poo. They also pass immunity to the young as well.

MM
 
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