Posted on 10/20/2015 2:26:38 PM PDT by sparklite2
By 2018 it expects to shift all chicken and turkey supplies over to antibiotic-free meats. The company said that within six years after that, it will begin serving pork and beef only from animals raised without antibiotics.
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Chickens are raised in close proximity. The usual structure is a long building with 10 buildings at 90 degrees from it, five per side. Each of those buildings houses 100,000 chickens. They are isolated to prevent disease from wiping out all one million chickens at the same time.
The farmer is an independent. The meat producer supplies the farmer with genetically selected chicks, their specially manufactured feed, which is sprayed with hormones and antibiotics. If I recall, the chicks are brought to weight in a few weeks, as opposed to a year the natural way.
An eighteen wheel truck pulls up when the chickens are (mostly) the right weight. The driver enters a hatch above the cages with a vacuum. The truck body is the vacuum bag. He walks along vacuuming chickens into the truck.
According to one anti-meat website 23 million chickens are harvested every day in the US. This is why chicken is astonishingly cheap. Imagine what it would cost if it were done with greater losses, as the no-use of antibiotics would mean. I’m certain that this was investigated as the antibiotics cost money. If it could be done without them, it would be.
Life is a tradeoff. Risk aversion means more cost.
Maybe the agriculture industry knows what it’s doing, and is actually experts in the field.
Once again, people seem to love having opinions on things they know little about, be it farming, economics, etc.
Hey, if we had to know what we were
talking about, there’d be few posts.
Pus will now be a sauce
Well-stated. Using Subway to continue the object lesson, Subway has decided that the way to prosperity is not by selling more $5 footlong sandwiches. Say good-bye to those!
Hardly matter when the meat is sliced so thin you can see through it. For around the same price I can get a Publix sub that is worlds better.
I reserve the right to be wrong. :-)
Great news
I’m just getting over bronchitis. *I* am not antibiotic free.
A good farmer will take care of his animals and give them medicine when they’re sick. What’s the alternative? Let them die of treatable illnesses? (Small-scale farmers will treat their sick animals, then wait a few weeks before butchering to get the medicine out)
The industrial farmer is stuck with antibiotic feed.
I prefer the small-scale farmer’s goods, but right now I’ve got 2 chickens in the pot and I can afford this luxury because of industrial farming.
So be it.
I would rather eat antibiotic chickens than go hungry.
Oh, man. I’d be embarrassed to tell you how many Publix subs I have eaten in the last ten years. They are the tops.
The Subways around here are all in the same shopping centers with Publix. I just shake my head at all the foolish people getting bad food in there mere steps away from an awesome alternative.
It doesn't matter to me. I'm still not going to eat there; I'd crawl over broken glass not to eat there. Besides, I'm married the missus can make me a sammich.
Why?
That was more in reference to the eco-nuts who think that their opinions debunk science and claim it’s all a conspiracy.
Odd how the left is so anti-intellectual when it comes to agriculture, but with climatology science is sacrosanct.
The Subway near me uses turkey for their “ham”; bizarre...
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