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I'm done with Tyson foods.......

Let me guess. The Tyson plant was staffed by illegals, and keeping it open while using US labor would push the processing cost outside of what the US consumer is willing to bear for processed chicken? That tracks. And, I’m not surprised. The average US consumer is not prepared to pay US labor prices for most goods and services. I have said it forever- the US didn’t give up on slavery, it just decided it is less expensive to rent them…
 
I live in the Chicken Belt. You can’t swing a dead cat and not hit a chicken house around here.

Most of the employees at the processing plants are “migrant“ workers. each employee is entitled to take home one chicken every day from the plant they work at, but none of them do because they see how nasty those birds are that they work with on a daily basis. So instead they come to our farm and spend $15-$20 each to buy a live bird to take home to eat.
 
I live in the Chicken Belt. You can’t swing a dead cat and not hit a chicken house around here.

Most of the employees at the processing plants are “migrant“ workers. each employee is entitled to take home one chicken every day from the plant they work at, but none of them do because they see how nasty those birds are that they work with on a daily basis. So instead they come to our farm and spend $15-$20 each to buy a live bird to take home to eat.
My wife stumbled into a “show chicken” that a student at her school was giving away. Already processed and ready for the pit. Damn that was a good bird.

My grandfather worked in a chicken house for a while. He never ate chicken after the experience.
 
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My best friend's wife grew up in a family that raised chickens.............she will not eat any chicken today............... I give her hell when she orders eggs for breakfast..............
 
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As a teen I worked in free range hen houses for egg laying with 10,000 birds. The feed we fed them depleted those birds to skin and bones. Nasty fuckers, they would peck each others assholes out and eat everything inside. All that was left was a hollowed out bird. We used to catch mice and throw them in there, they would go nuts called it chicken football. The Hayes Market next town over butchers all their own birds daily, they are always hiring processors. That’s the only place I buy chicken.
 
I live in the Chicken Belt. You can’t swing a dead cat and not hit a chicken house around here.

Most of the employees at the processing plants are “migrant“ workers. each employee is entitled to take home one chicken every day from the plant they work at, but none of them do because they see how nasty those birds are that they work with on a daily basis. So instead they come to our farm and spend $15-$20 each to buy a live bird to take home to eat.
Wut $20 for a chicken? Now I know how you can afford to to own every night vision device ever made.
 
You were today years old when you realized industrial chicken is a crime against everything decent in the world? Glad you are catching up bud. One step closer to the truth is better than one step farther away.

No industrial agriculture. Period.
 
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I can see how my response could be taken as not liking chicken because it’s an animal product. I actually meant it the other way. Chicken is more like the animal world’s equivalent of vegetables. Muscle meat, fat, & organs from ruminant animals are infinitely healthier than some disgusting fowl or weeds
 
I can see how my response could be taken as not liking chicken because it’s an animal product. I actually meant it the other way. Chicken is more like the animal world’s equivalent of vegetables. Muscle meat, fat, & organs from ruminant animals are infinitely healthier than some disgusting fowl or weeds

I had to look up the word ruminant lol

I like to eat tasty animals. I don’t care how many beaks or toes they have. Gotta taste good.
 
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I had to look up the word ruminant lol

I like to eat tasty animals. I don’t care how many beaks or toes they have. Gotta taste good.
I ate too much chicken breast & broccoli in my gym rat days. That’s my beef with chicken
 
I ate too much chicken breast & broccoli in my gym rat days. That’s my beef with chicken
It’s pretty widely known that when a celebrity says they got ripped eating skin less chicken breast and steamed broccoli, that’s just code for steroids. But, as far as I know, you aren’t a celeb, so there’s that…
 
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Let me guess. The Tyson plant was staffed by illegals, and keeping it open while using US labor would push the processing cost outside of what the US consumer is willing to bear for processed chicken? That tracks. And, I’m not surprised. The average US consumer is not prepared to pay US labor prices for most goods and services. I have said it forever- the US didn’t give up on slavery, it just decided it is less expensive to rent them…

I can buy top quality, grass fed, unvaccinated beef from my local butcher for 5 dollars a pound finished, wrapped.

No Mexicans involved. It isn't that expensive compared to the low quality food most folks buy daily.
 
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I just saw where they closed their plant in Perry, Iowa, and laid off 1200 workers.
All in favor of hiring illegals.......AND providing them with lawyers.
I can easily live without that chicken, it won't taste the same anyway.
Well, this plant is actually a pork processing plant that is being shut down.

You are assuming that Tyson does not already hire illegals in this plant, which is not a very good assumption. Here is one of the employees discussing the closure.

I grew up about 5 miles from there on a farm, and there is a lot of history that I know about that you are not aware of.
 
I can buy top quality, grass fed, unvaccinated beef from my local butcher for 5 dollars a pound finished, wrapped.

No Mexicans involved. It isn't that expensive compared to the low quality food most folks buy daily.
You are the exception. The vast majority of Americans are totally divorced from how and where their food is grown and processed.

The majority of our protein is venison that I process myself, so, yeah…
 
The University of Arkansas has a rather large section called something like (it's been a decade or two, don't recall exact words) "poultry research dept.".
The major donator of funds.....Don Tyson, the owner of Tyson foods (if he's still alive anyway) and of course other than WalMart one of the largest employers in NW Arkansas.
Them fuckers do things like figuring out how to take shit like chicken feathers and reprocess them so they can feed them back to, you guessed it, chickens.

They are some nasty evil mutha fuckers, never doubt it.
Obviously Tysons has also imported a shit ton of illegals into Arkansas because, you know, paying an American is just not a thing to be done.


We are one of the most industry-supported departments at the University of Arkansas and with this tremendous support comes financial assistance, scholarships, internships, incredible facilities, classrooms and more. A degree in poultry science will open doors for you at the state and national levels as well as throughout the world.

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Having spent 6 decades of my life living in Iowa, the last 30 of them 25 miles from Perry. Let me fill you in on something. The entire meat processing industry is staffed with mostly Latino labor and has been for decades. Be it pork, beef, or chicken makes no difference. Being Latino doesn't mean they are illegals, not by a long shot. Unless you're going to raise your own, you don't have a lot of choices.
 
A coworker was told chicken was on the do not eat list as a cancer survivor. Doc told him there's far too many hormones in commercial chicken for his safety. Farm raised was fine, but told him not to risk anything off the shelf.
 
A coworker was told chicken was on the do not eat list as a cancer survivor. Doc told him there's far too many hormones in commercial chicken for his safety. Farm raised was fine, but told him not to risk anything off the shelf.
It's that way with all commercial meat. They are allowed to feed steroids to critters to increase size, yet those same steroids are illegals for people to buy.
 
I live in the Chicken Belt. You can’t swing a dead cat and not hit a chicken house around here.

Most of the employees at the processing plants are “migrant“ workers. each employee is entitled to take home one chicken every day from the plant they work at, but none of them do because they see how nasty those birds are that they work with on a daily basis. So instead they come to our farm and spend $15-$20 each to buy a live bird to take home to eat.
The chicken belt is long indeed. East of me to the coast is the turkey belt. I am in NC and my dead end road alone has 12 chicken houses. Tyson has a plant in town and the big companies...Mountainaire, Pilgrim etc. all have processing plants withing 30 miles. One of the reasons we see so many hispanics around here compared to 20 years ago. No thanks on chicken from the grocery store. The processing plants are nasty, the chickens go from peeps to monster full grown in about 6-7 weeks. That is nowhere near normal....... None of my chicken farmer friends eat it.

On a good note they are some of my best coyote hunting spots.
 
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I just saw where they closed their plant in Perry, Iowa, and laid off 1200 workers.
All in favor of hiring illegals.......AND providing them with lawyers.
I can easily live without that chicken, it won't taste the same anyway.
That’s a pork plant, not a chicken plant.

Tyson had announced they lost $128M in fiscal year 2023 in their pork segment.

I’m sure this was more of a contributor to the plant closing than hiring illegals.
 
The chicken belt is long indeed. East of me to the coast is the turkey belt. I am in NC and my dead end road alone has 12 chicken houses. Tyson has a plant in town and the big companies...Mountainaire, Pilgrim etc. all have processing plants withing 30 miles. One of the reasons we see so many hispanics around here compared to 20 years ago. No thanks on chicken from the grocery store. The processing plants are nasty, the chickens go from peeps to monster full grown in about 6-7 weeks. That is nowhere near normal....... None of my chicken farmer friends eat it.

On a good note they are some of my best coyote hunting spots.
Those cornish crosses/broilers are likely the result of nazi experiments conducted by Mengele and his minions. I can't prove it though.

By around six weeks they start to develop crippling leg problems because they pack on weight so fast their little legs can't keep up. And the feather situation makes them look like feral animals found near Chernobyl.

No doubt they make the best fried chicken tough. Heritage breeds have a weird texture and are too oily. If you're eating chicken from anyone looking to turn profit (or even lose less money) there's a 99% chance it's a frankenstein-like cornish cross variety.

I'm in NC too and someone cleaned out one of the houses yesterday. That'll open up your sinuses...
 
They can go to hell.

"SPRINGDALE, Ark. – Oct. 17, 2023 Tyson Foods, Inc. (NYSE: TSN), one of the world’s largest food companies, has reached an agreement for a two-fold investment with Protix, the leading global insect ingredients company. The strategic investment will support the growth of the emerging insect ingredient industry and expand the use of insect ingredient solutions to create more efficient sustainable proteins and lipids for use in the global food system. The agreement combines Tyson Foods’ global scale, experience and network with Protix’s technology and market leadership to meet current market demand and scale production of insect ingredients."
 
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It’s pretty widely known that when a celebrity says they got ripped eating skin less chicken breast and steamed broccoli, that’s just code for steroids. But, as far as I know, you aren’t a celeb, so there’s that…
I was not on ‘roids. I was on a lot of the popular supplements in the early 00’s though
 
My dog loves their Southern tenderloins - I saw prices just went up to $12.99. Last time she had them they were on sale for 5.99. Its coming.
 
Grow your own chickens for meat and eggs. They are the easiest animal to care for and will eat every table scrap your family produces. Also, keep them around your garden, they will clean out the insects and mice.
 
I don't get it. Lots of animals eat bugs. Birds eat bugs. Why would bugs in their feed be an issue?

Because people on this site are panicking over a possibility of having to eat bugs in the future, per Klaus Schwab.