Considering what was said in "What the Supermarket's don't tell you" (high fat, badly kept chickens with hock burns etc)...how does anybody know that fresh chicken is actually ok to be handed out in schools? (I'm not saying that it's worse than chicken twizzlers though)...just wondering what you all think?
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Fizzy, you don't have to be the school caretaker. In fact, I'm fairly sure that you're in charge of the fizzy drinks (organic and home-made cherry ummmmmmmm coke I think )
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Originally posted by green_sicko: Considering what was said in "What the Supermarket's don't tell you" (high fat, badly kept chickens with hock burns etc)...how does anybody know that fresh chicken is actually ok to be handed out in schools? (I'm not saying that it's worse than chicken twizzlers though)...just wondering what you all think?
That program was a little alarmist.
Yes chicken is safe to given for school dinners. An excellent and affordable source of fat and protein.
It may not be nice how these birds are farmed. But if we want our kids to eat well at an affordable price then that`s the way it has to be I`m afraid. "Organically reared" birds may hav eless fat. But they also have less meat. And cost a heck of a lot more.
The pressures of cost is what drove school dinners into providing cheap rubbish. If you are not prepared to accept that to offer cheap but nutritious food we have to accept the bad side of intensive farming then you are in a bit of a quandry.
I understand what you mean Gorbag and agree with what you are saying.
In some ways intensive farming is acceptable. I wasn't really questioning the animal welfare (despite how unpopular that might make me). I was questioning the safety of the diet for children. Pesticide and hormone build-up in meat is thought by Breast Cancer researchers to be signicant cause of breast lumps (benign and malignant). Not to mention fertility problems. When the government advice is to peel all carrots because of pesticides, I think we should consider what affect this sort of thing is having on school children.
And cheap rubbish for school dinners is not the alternative to organic chicken. Maybe we should be considering that bargain bucket prices for school dinners (not to mention hospitals) shouldn't be the aim. After all poor nutrition is the primary cause of poor health.
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Originally posted by green_sicko: I understand what you mean Gorbag and agree with what you are saying.
In some ways intensive farming is acceptable. I wasn't really questioning the animal welfare (despite how unpopular that might make me). I was questioning the safety of the diet for children. Pesticide and hormone build-up in meat is thought by Breast Cancer researchers to be signicant cause of breast lumps (benign and malignant). Not to mention fertility problems. When the government advice is to peel all carrots because of pesticides, I think we should consider what affect this sort of thing is having on school children.
And cheap rubbish for school dinners is not the alternative to organic chicken. Maybe we should be considering that bargain bucket prices for school dinners (not to mention hospitals) shouldn't be the aim. After all poor nutrition is the primary cause of poor health.
There is substantial evidence that a lack of fat in the diet is a major cause of cancer including breast cancer. Breasts are made up o fmostly fatty tissue. A lack of the correct in the diet can therefore lead to malformity in the tissues. Apparently.
The notion of "build ups" of pesticides and hormones is ill founded and little more than scaremongering. None of these assumptions are based on good hard science.
We have to be very careful. There are perfectly nutritious cheap foods such as farmed chicken. Poor nutrition is THE major cause of ill health in this country. With adults as well as children. But what constitutes "poor nutrition"?
Until we sort that out it`s a difficult situation.
(j/k)
