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From: stanwyck@ihuxr.UUCP (Don Stanwyck)
Newsgroups: net.veg
Subject: Re: Why not meat? THE INDUSTRY! - (nf)
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Date: Mon, 9-Jan-84 15:50:40 EST
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Posted: Mon Jan  9 15:50:40 1984
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Courtney Lewis makes a statement that commercial chicken meat is very loaded
with hormones.  I first saw this rumor many years ago when I was in high school.
I beleived it too, until i became a chicken farmer.  I put myself through
undergrad schoool partly on the selling of my hens' eggs.  Along the way I
took some Poultry Science courses at Oregon State Univ., where I attended,
and learned one or two things.

First.  According to the commercial chicken feed ingrediant labels on the 
feeds I bought, there was basically only corn in my feeds.  There were
definitely no hormones.  According to the poultry science classes I took
it is economically unsound to try to feed hormones to chickens.  They grow
fast enough anyway.  And hormones are expensive relative to the cost of
one extra day of feed before market.

Second, many people are very funny about what they will and won't eat.  I
did real well because I sold "brown eggs" in a town where many of the 
people were concerned about their health.  Peoiple will pay a premium for
brown eggs.  Nutritionally there is no difference (unless you are eating
the shell!).  People will also pay a premium for a fertile egg - for what?
One sperm cell?  Maybe 8-10 cells of chicken that grew before I got it to the
refridge?  And I couldn't guarentee that an egg was fertile anymore than
anyone else can.  I just let a rooster run with my hens.  If the hen got
serviced at least once every 30 days, then the eggs she laid were probably
fertile.  If not - then there was a lower chance of the sperm cell being
in the egg.  Oh well.  Good Grief, too.

Enuf for now, I'v sqwakked my way into a discussion I never should have 
gotten into.

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