Whole Foods 1 year chart
Whole Foods is on the forefront of wacko environmental/animal rights food marketing.
It doesn't look it is working very well does it?
Posted on 12/05/2006 8:26:15 AM PST by finnman69
With its premium price tag, shoppers expect organic chicken to be both tastier and healthier than cheaper battery-farmed birds.
But organic poultry is actually less nutritious, contains more fat and tastes worse than its mass-produced equivalent, research has shown.
Tests on supermarket chicken breasts showed that organic versions contained lower levels of health-boosting omega 3 fatty acids than other varieties, including non-organic free-range poultry.
The compounds, present in high levels in oily fish, are thought to be responsible for a host of health benefits, from combating heart disease to boosting intelligence.
Organic chicken, which typically costs nearly three times as much as battery-farmed poultry, also contained lower levels of anti-oxidants – compounds which mop up harmful molecules called free radicals that have been linked to cancer, heart disease and strokes.
If that wasn't enough, the chicken – from birds which are raised as naturally as possible and are given antibiotics only when they are actually ill – contained up to twice as much cholesterol.
Organic chicken even fared poorly in blind taste tests, gaining the lowest marks for succulence.
(Excerpt) Read more at thisislondon.co.uk ...
-organic tastes worse in blind tests -organic chicken higher in fat -organic chicken lower Omega3s -organic chicken fewer anti-oxidants -organic chicken 3 times higher cost
do the math
No carcinogens from preservatives though. Or those ungoldy enzymes (which can be deadly if exposed to bare skin) they feed chickens that make them grow from orange and fuzzy to my dinner table within 40 days or so.
"Tastes like rubber chicken!"
I eat fish do get the Omega 3s, not chicken.
I've never noticed a difference in the taste, and Mr. elc never noticed I made the switch.
A bit higher in fat (because it doesn't say how much, and my boneless, skinless chicken breasts are pretty darn low in fat to begin with) is a good trade off for me not to have the growth hormone and antibiotic fed chicken.
Math works for me.
Whole Foods 1 year chart
Whole Foods is on the forefront of wacko environmental/animal rights food marketing.
It doesn't look it is working very well does it?
organic poultry is actually less nutritious, contains more fat and tastes worse than its mass-produced equivalent:') the buy organic label sounds like another bucket of cluck.
Yes, but you won't look like a troll, like the guy did who ate a lot of chicken necks and got an overdose of growth hormone.
lol!
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