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Whole Foods' Animal Welfare Certifier to Cut 90% of U.S. Chicken From Approved Supplies
Bloomberg | Amelia Pollard, Leslie Patton, and Michael Hirtzer

Posted on 11/22/2021 2:09:06 PM PST by karpov

No excerpt from Bloomberg allowed, story here.


TOPICS: Business/Economy
KEYWORDS: chicken; food; wholefoods
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The article says that chicken breasts from the alternative breeds could cost $10/pound vs. $3/pound currently. The plebians are supposed to become vegetarian.
1 posted on 11/22/2021 2:09:06 PM PST by karpov
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To: karpov

I’ll just go shoot a few deer. Tastes like chicken or something.


2 posted on 11/22/2021 2:17:06 PM PST by foundedonpurpose (Praise Hashem, for his restoration of all things!)
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To: karpov

Couldn’t care less what happens at Whole Paychecks.


3 posted on 11/22/2021 2:18:02 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (Covid Is All About Mail In Balloting)
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To: karpov

The article says that chicken breasts from the alternative breeds could cost $10/pound vs. $3/pound currently.

The elites don’t care. $10/pound. $1,00/pound. Makes no difference to them.


4 posted on 11/22/2021 2:18:10 PM PST by Flick Lives (The future is a quiet world)
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It looks like they are mixing two different requirements. The first is some cruelty free raising of chickens. The second is that some breeds just grow too fast which makes for cheap but lower quality meat. I have no idea why an animal welfare certifier would care about the quality of the meat other than as a way to reduce meat consumption in general.

At ten bucks a pound I can raise my own, even if it isn't legal in my suburb.

5 posted on 11/22/2021 2:19:49 PM PST by KarlInOhio ("Anti-fascist" is from the official name of the Berlin Wall: Anti-fascist Protection Barrier.)
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To: karpov

read similar story at Yahoo News! search

Whole Foods Chicken Certifier Upends Market With New Breed Rules


6 posted on 11/22/2021 2:19:54 PM PST by ptsal (Vote R.E.D. >>>Remove Every Democrat ***)
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"...There’s an ethical decision that we need to make, where we’re paying a little bit more for chicken and it means that these birds have a better life..."

These people are deranged. We are going to cut off the chicken's heads, defeather them, gut them, and eat them. I am not into animal abuse, but that is not what this is about.

As you implied, this is using the government to drive people into their desired forms of food consumption, much the same as they use the government to drive people into using their preferred forms of transportation.

Everything they do is about control. They are evil, pure and simple.

7 posted on 11/22/2021 2:20:15 PM PST by rlmorel (If the Biden Administration was only stupid or incompetent, some actions would benefit the USA.)
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To: karpov

I was in a WF the other day for day to drop an Amazon return.

The smugness was palpable. It is like the unique scent of Airport Duty Free shops: sanctimony, smugness and self-satisfaction in an overwhelming wave.


8 posted on 11/22/2021 2:21:08 PM PST by freedumb2003 (The democrats have just replaced KKK with CRT. /Kevin McCarty 7/6/21)
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To: foundedonpurpose

Libs probably taste like pork, seeing as how they subsist on pork stolen from those who earned the money.


9 posted on 11/22/2021 2:22:02 PM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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It isn’t about ethical treatment or consumer protection. It is about controlling what we eat. Eating chickens uses too much energy and produces too much waste for the environmentalists.

They want us to eat plants.

They just use the humane aspect to snare simple-minded people who can’t think for themselves and provide support to their causes.


10 posted on 11/22/2021 2:22:40 PM PST by rlmorel (If the Biden Administration was only stupid or incompetent, some actions would benefit the USA.)
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To: freedumb2003

Well,when you drive a Range Rover,Volvo or Tesla of *course* you’re gonna be smug.


11 posted on 11/22/2021 2:23:51 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (Covid Is All About Mail In Balloting)
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In Oregon (why not), they want to pass a law that would outlaw hunting AND killing farm animals. Yes the chickens would have to die of old age before you could butcher them.


12 posted on 11/22/2021 2:29:31 PM PST by Cold Heart
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To: piasa

Not going to eat libs, prefer legally harvested healthy meat.


13 posted on 11/22/2021 2:31:02 PM PST by foundedonpurpose (Praise Hashem, for his restoration of all things!)
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Never ate alligator, but my daughter did and said the same thing. I've heard gators produce a lot of meat.

There was a bird flu thing going around Asia when we lived in Japan in the 1990s and chicken was suddenly in short supply and expensive. We tried some imported kangaroo meat from Australia and it was pretty good as well.

14 posted on 11/22/2021 2:32:15 PM PST by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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“Chicken from alternative breeds can cost $10 per pound for boneless breasts compared with about $3 for mass-market birds currently.”

Doesn’t really mean much, as the alternative breeds are specialty, small-farm products vs. the more efficient larger farms.

I’m in an expensive part of the country and boneless chicken breasts (yuck—where’s the flavor?) is regularly on special for $2 a pound.

I am for producing and eating a lot of meat, but treating all animals involved well from birth to butchering.


15 posted on 11/22/2021 2:36:13 PM PST by 9YearLurker
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Have heard Kangaroo is pretty good as well, never tried Gator. Frog legs taste like fish, sort of. I’ll pass next time.


16 posted on 11/22/2021 2:36:55 PM PST by foundedonpurpose (Praise Hashem, for his restoration of all things!)
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To: Cold Heart
Yes the chickens would have to die of old age before you could butcher them.

You left out suicide, traffic accidents, and drug ODs.

Q: Why did the chicken cross the road?
A: To get into the stew pot.

17 posted on 11/22/2021 2:38:17 PM PST by FirstFlaBn
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To: foundedonpurpose

those antifa and blm thugs are free range critters... 😁...


18 posted on 11/22/2021 2:38:55 PM PST by heavy metal (smiling improves your face value and makes people wonder what the hell you're up to... 😁)
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To: karpov

I bought fresh whole, skinned chicken breasts at Sam’s for $1.89/lb just a few weeks ago...9 breasts in the package.

Used it to make dog food for little Fido over the weekend.

Fido may have to go on a diet.


19 posted on 11/22/2021 2:40:02 PM PST by moovova (I'm dismayed that most of the world hates me for being non-vaxxed. Honest. No, really.)
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To: heavy metal

Non-edible ones!


20 posted on 11/22/2021 2:41:21 PM PST by foundedonpurpose (Praise Hashem, for his restoration of all things!)
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