Posted on 08/27/2010 7:50:12 AM PDT by stillafreemind
What could contaminate the feed that caused the salmonella egg outbreak? How about feeding the chickens back their own manure and litter? If you think that that is far fetched, read here and here. The word "by-product" starts to take on a different meaning. Not only do chickens get fed chicken litter, but chicken litter is also fed to cows.
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How does salmonella get inside those eggs?
the salmonella gets inside the egg because it is fed to the chikens then to the cows. by way of chickens and cows eathing diseased chicken shit.
I believe that when the chicken eats the contaminated feed, the chicken then becomes toxic with salmonella. I think that the ovaries pass the salmonella on to the eggs when they are developing.
Hopefully someone will get on here and explain this to us!
A good reason to eat 100% grass fed beef and 100% vegetarian, soy free, free range chicken.
Meat and bone meal from slaughter houses (probably not sterilized properly) is the best guess.
It’s used for mineral and protein in chicken feed.
Via the chicken, but I’m having a difficult time understanding why this is such a big deal. For years we have known many of our eggs are contaminated with salmonella (as are the chickens we eat) and so the rule has always been COOK THEM. I don’t think you can get salmonella from properly cooked eggs (or chicken). I guess I need to do a little more research, but I am not understanding what’s going on here.
where do you get your grass fed beef?
Feeding cows the remnants of the slaughterhouse meat product waste allowed the conditions for Mad Cow Disease to develop (the prions which cause the condition cannot be destroyed by high temperatures or even irradiation). It devastated Britain’s beef industry.
I guess the hard lessons are not always learnt.
I don’t see the problem - seriously.
Too many people here never grew up on a farm and don’t have a CLUE.
Their litter is scooped up, sterilized, and recycled to get every last bit of nutrient and sustenance out of it.
What the HECK problem do you have with that? Maybe you need to pay attention to the diet of “free range” chickens -if it is real small and moves or even if it has been dead awhile it’s lunch.
hahahahah! Joke right?
Good LORD we appear to have some people that NEVER would have made it even 50 years ago much less 100 years ago.
We are leaving this country to the weaker and weakest.
Somebody didn’t research the latest b4 they posted on mad cow.
This is a very good article. And, btw, free range and organic chicken eggs can STILL harbor salmonella. I have always known that and have treated eggs carefully. Cooking will kill the organisms. And I never use an egg that is already cracked (I check them when I buy them, but sometimes one gets thru my inspection).
http://news.discovery.com/human/egg-salmonella-bacteria.html
Unless you have worked in a factory farm or hauled feed to a factory farm maybe you are not aware of some of the ding-dong practices going on.
It’s not natural for a cow to eat meat or poop of any kind. A chicken in a natural setting eats a bit of everything and not a steady diet of chicken poop.
Oh, and I was raised on a farm and still live on one. We do not feed poop to any animal.
You’re exactly right. I had chickens when I was a kid, and they are filthy creatures. I liked them, but they will eat almost anything and they are not clean in their habits. More people need to actually raise their own food at least for awhile so they get an appreciation of what they are eating.
Grass fed beef.
I get if from my cows, you can find it on Craigslist.
Problem is thanks to USDA rules passed to help big companies you have to buy half a cow.
well, there goes my steak and egg breakfast.
“We do not feed poop to any animal.”
Because you DIDN’T have any way to sterize it and prepare it!
What you did is you hauled it out into the fields and spread it untreated all over the ground so the microbes could attack it and leave the nutrients STILL IN THE POOP in the ground!
Sheese. I am wondering if your “farm” was perhaps daddy’s 80 acre hobby farm?
uhhh, 100 years ago it was all grass fed beef.
Only recently have we gone to feeding expensive grains to cows so they could fatten up in under 2 years.
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