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Do you think that chickens should be treated well?
I am not a very big egg fan anyway but when I do eat them, I'd prefer to have free-range chickens. At the store the eggs have numbers on them.
3- They are cooped up in little cages each day.
2- They get to be on the ground which might sound good but you never know how many chickens are in one square foot.
1- Free Range.
We get the Grade 2 chicken eggs. I have tried to make my dad get Grade 1 but they're a euro more and he says Grade 2 is good anyway. Do you think free-range chicken eggs would taste better? I know, I am absolutely crazy (ask Sister.) But what do you think?
submitted by Elizabeth M. , age 12, Germany
(October 4, 2011 - 10:07 am)
(October 4, 2011 - 10:07 am)
Food Inc. would probably be terrfying but I still want to watch it.
Someone said something about buildings/chickens stepping in poop and that is (sadly) what I believe a lot of Grade 2 eggs are. They say "Bodenhaltung" (held on the floor) so that you're like "Oh yay! These chickens aren't in cages all day!" But it in real life the chickens are piled up on each other in the dark.
There was a show on showing this guy who is trying to stop plants that misuse (I couldn't find another verb) animals. Like this goose; they put a tube down its throat, pumped food into the goose until it was "filled" and killed the goose. Yes, oh my Edward (just joking.) ;)
Ima (or whoever said this, I thought Ima did, though), when you say "genetically changed food" do you mean i.e. when normal steaks are pumped up to twice their body weight because they're using pesticides and you're EATING the pesticides and you'll die of some terrible disease because you ATE pesticides. Now, I may have just offended you *sorry* and this could all be completely wrong so ignore it if that it the case.
(October 11, 2011 - 11:00 am)
Oh, no, I wasn't talking about that; I'm definitely against that. But there has been some tweaking with the genes of certain plants--I don't know exactly how it works--so that they get qualities people want. And I don't mean breeding; this is different somehow, less natural. It doesn't harm the plants, and it's not allowed on animals in the US, but there have been no studies about whether it affects human health, and since it's possible it does, I'm a bit... cautious. Like I said, though, what's really important to me is that it's labeled. People have the right to know what they're eating. Unfortunately, there's no law saying you have to label it, so companies often don't.
(October 12, 2011 - 5:12 pm)
By the way, I should have clarified about it not being allowed in the US on animals: There isn't a law saying it's never allowed here, but you do have to ask the government's permission before using genetically modified animals, and no-one has it right now.
(October 13, 2011 - 5:29 pm)
Well we have chickens and everyone who has gotten eggs from us says that they taste better. I really don't know if there is a big difference except there are prabably more nutrients in the free range ones.
TNO is right about beef. It tastes a whole lot better if the cow wasn't penned up eating corn and such all its life.
(October 12, 2011 - 3:21 pm)
I don't really have much of an opinion on eggs, but I love how you say euro.
(October 12, 2011 - 5:52 pm)
So, Ima, what you mean is that they put something into the plants that isn't deadly to humans but it makes them bigger and/or grow faster? And they don't say that you need a label on the food? Well, what if these people used something deadly and didn't put a sticker on it because it supposedly was okay and then they did a test or two and found out it was deadly and then all of us started to die because they bought genetically changed plants. Wow. I can't eat vegetables in the US anymore.
(October 13, 2011 - 11:13 am)