What's wrong with grocery store chicken?
On Vital Votes, Dr. Matthew Loop of Lilburn, Georgia writes:
"The commercialization of meat production illustrates most clearly how taking control of our food supply (domesticating, breeding, and artificial feeding) has affected its nutritional content and our physical health!
"For example, chickens are possibly the most abused animal on the face of the planet. These conventional birds are crammed in filthy sheds by the tens of thousands, immersed in their own excrement among the corpses of other birds who died of heart attacks or stress ..."
Vital Votes reader Steve from Toms River, New Jersey adds:
"I never knew how absolutely disgusting factory farming really is until reading Dr. Mercola's book, The Great Bird Flu Hoax. What an eye opener to the reality of corporate greed that does not give a darn about the quality of food produced. It's ALL about profits and never about consumer health.
"If you want instant proof, watch the Wegman's Cruelty video, also noted in the book. This is a must see, free 27 minute video. Sadly, it's not just chickens and eggs. Add to the equation -- non-organic: beef, pork, seafood, vegetables, fruits, nuts, grains, etc. The list goes on."
Spring Hill Farms highly recommends Dr Mercola's site for good information on many health topics.
"The commercialization of meat production illustrates most clearly how taking control of our food supply (domesticating, breeding, and artificial feeding) has affected its nutritional content and our physical health!
"For example, chickens are possibly the most abused animal on the face of the planet. These conventional birds are crammed in filthy sheds by the tens of thousands, immersed in their own excrement among the corpses of other birds who died of heart attacks or stress ..."
Vital Votes reader Steve from Toms River, New Jersey adds:
"I never knew how absolutely disgusting factory farming really is until reading Dr. Mercola's book, The Great Bird Flu Hoax. What an eye opener to the reality of corporate greed that does not give a darn about the quality of food produced. It's ALL about profits and never about consumer health.
"If you want instant proof, watch the Wegman's Cruelty video, also noted in the book. This is a must see, free 27 minute video. Sadly, it's not just chickens and eggs. Add to the equation -- non-organic: beef, pork, seafood, vegetables, fruits, nuts, grains, etc. The list goes on."
Spring Hill Farms highly recommends Dr Mercola's site for good information on many health topics.
Freedom Ranger Chicken
How is pastured poultry from Spring Hill Farms different?
Our birds have constant access to the outdoors and fresh air. Contrast that with commercial, confinement, operations that face problems such as:
Fecal dust contamination - Feathers, eyes, lungs nothing can escape it in a confinement barn full of chickens.
High levels of ammonia in the air - This causes irritation to the lungs and causes lesions.
We never de-beak our chickens.
Confinement birds are routinely de-beaked which we classify as mutilation.
We don't feed arsenic to our chickens.
Arsenic is fed to conventionally raised birds as a growth promoter in their feed. While it is banned in Europe, the US FDA has failed to ban this toxic substance.
In the report "Playing Chicken: Avoiding Arsenic in Your Meat." It was found that of 155 samples from uncooked supermarket chicken, 55 percent contained detectable arsenic. In chicken breasts as high as 21.2 parts per billion.
The poultry industry claims that arsenic levels found in chickens are so low consumers have no worries. But the EPA has set saftey standards of arsenic in water at 10 parts per billion.*
*David Wallinga MD, "Playing Chicken: Avoiding Arsenic in Your Meat," Institute for Agricultural and Trade Policy, April 2006.
Chickens at Spring Hill Farms roam about in poultry netting or open bottom cages freely foraging, taking dust baths, and living stress free lives. We feed grains from local farmers that contain no animal products or feed additives. The end result? You can taste the difference and it's better for you and your family!
We are currently taking orders for pastured poultry. Contact us below.
Our pastured poultry starts at $3.79 per pound with a minimum order of five birds.
Fecal dust contamination - Feathers, eyes, lungs nothing can escape it in a confinement barn full of chickens.
High levels of ammonia in the air - This causes irritation to the lungs and causes lesions.
We never de-beak our chickens.
Confinement birds are routinely de-beaked which we classify as mutilation.
We don't feed arsenic to our chickens.
Arsenic is fed to conventionally raised birds as a growth promoter in their feed. While it is banned in Europe, the US FDA has failed to ban this toxic substance.
In the report "Playing Chicken: Avoiding Arsenic in Your Meat." It was found that of 155 samples from uncooked supermarket chicken, 55 percent contained detectable arsenic. In chicken breasts as high as 21.2 parts per billion.
The poultry industry claims that arsenic levels found in chickens are so low consumers have no worries. But the EPA has set saftey standards of arsenic in water at 10 parts per billion.*
*David Wallinga MD, "Playing Chicken: Avoiding Arsenic in Your Meat," Institute for Agricultural and Trade Policy, April 2006.
Chickens at Spring Hill Farms roam about in poultry netting or open bottom cages freely foraging, taking dust baths, and living stress free lives. We feed grains from local farmers that contain no animal products or feed additives. The end result? You can taste the difference and it's better for you and your family!
We are currently taking orders for pastured poultry. Contact us below.
Our pastured poultry starts at $3.79 per pound with a minimum order of five birds.
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