Woody Chicken

[Anonymous No.16994695]

Chicken is Ruined forever, it is getting harder and harder to find chicken without these muscle defects, tastes like chewy rubber no matter how you cook it,

[Anonymous No.16994711]

>>16994695
Saw you or someone else ppsting about this a few weeks ago. Wasn't familiar with the woody chicken. Then I got some at chikfila as nuggets. Almost impossible to chew.

[Anonymous No.16994713]

>>16994695
those are worms

[Anonymous No.16994721]

It takes a tough man to make a tender chicken. Sign of the times.

[Anonymous No.16994723]

The elite want you diseased or dead

[Anonymous No.16994725]

>>16994695
yeah i basically stopped buying whole breasts anymore and just get cutlets.

[Anonymous No.16994727]

>>16994713
not worms, abnormal extreme speed muscle growth causes these tears that heal and leave scars.
Problem affected like 5% of chicken back in 2016 but now almost all chicken you buy in a frozen bulk bag is affected

[Anonymous No.16994729]

>>16994695
Cant' you just poke it a bit in the supermarket to figure out if it's woody? I've never bought one so idk

[Anonymous No.16994733]

>>16994725
I've been debating on doing the same if you are referring to tenderloins, I just hate that even when cooked you know the giant white tendon is still in there, cant do the fork trick if cooking from frozen

[Anonymous No.16994734]

Just buy whole chickens faglord

[Anonymous No.16994740]

I only cook very cheap chicken until it's tender enough to be shredded for this reason.

[Anonymous No.16994742]

>>16994727
>abnormal extreme speed muscle growth
>Sonic the Chicken is now a reality
This is the best timeline

[Anonymous No.16994750]

>>16994695
buy leg quarters until they get woody thigh and woody calf, THEN you can go on your amok

[Anonymous No.16994751]

>>16994740
But if you chicken shred, then fed in bed glad med

[Anonymous No.16994755]

>>16994711
I think that was me, I made a thread about costco chicken breasts. It always comes out like woody with the breasts.

>>16994695
I stopped buying chicken breasts because of this. I usually get chicken thighs now. Chicken legs from costco always give me diarrhea. I also avoid getting meat from costco.

[Anonymous No.16994768]

>>16994695
I don't buy breasts anymore because of this, what the fuck are they doing to these chickens?

[Anonymous No.16994794]

>>16994768
>I don't buy breasts anymore because of this, what the fuck are they doing to these chickens?
they are making chickens bigger artificially and because of this they are getting harder breasts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woody_breast

[Anonymous No.16994812]

>>16994695
>american food standards

[Anonymous No.16994835]

>>16994768
The reason this happens is the chicken (specifically their breasts) in the US has been bred and engineered for maximum growth in minimum time and we have gotten to the point where the chickens are growing SO FAST that their muscles tear as they grow and develop scar tissue in the process of healing. We've reached the current limit of how fast you can grow a chicken and the ag industry hasn't figured out how to work around the issue yet

[Anonymous No.16994843]

>>16994835
I'm in the UK and I see breasts like these all the time though

[Anonymous No.16994858]

>>16994835
I'm from america and I would gladly pay for a nicer chicken that isn't as big as the artificial ones and has nice tender meat. Those woody breasts are terrible.

[Anonymous No.16994871]

>>16994727
Nah even in 2016 it was way more than 5%. Even back in 2012 studies were already seeing 35-55% prevalence.

It's simply gotten worse and previously manufacturers would just grind it up for ground chicken, but with how prevalent it is now, you really can't avoid it even if you try unless you're absurdly wealthy and can afford to raise a flock of heritage chicken breeds for your exclusive consumption.

[Anonymous No.16994881]

>>16994843
I would not be surprised if a country in Europe had this problem as well that it would be the UK. Start buying your chickens from France

[Anonymous No.16994892]

>>16994881
France is the country that first reported Woody breast on a large scale in 2011.

[Anonymous No.16994905]

>>16994892
so you're saying america is playing catch-up with the more advanced civilization as usual

[Anonymous No.16994929]

>>16994905
More than likely US farms just hid it longer

[Anonymous No.16994941]

>>16994695
buy whole chickens of reasonable size, not the cell tech monsters. cook whole chicken, save remnants for stock

[Anonymous No.16994949]

>>16994695
Wash with soap and water

[Anonymous No.16994950]

>>16994929
It's not like you can hide it very well when people are buying cooking and eating the stuff
unless you're saying that they were just grinding up that stuff for nuggies exclusively

[Anonymous No.16994955]

>>16994950
That's exactly what was being done for at least 5-10 years before it caught wide public attention.

[Anonymous No.16994996]

>>16994955
christ how many chicken nuggers do we eat?

[Anonymous No.16995003]

>>16994996
McDonald's alone could probably account for 5% of US chicken.

[Anonymous No.16995024]

not sure i've run into this yet, but i've been vaguely aware of it

when i cook chicken breasts, i tenderize ALL of it with a tenderizer like this one: https://www.amazon.com/OXO-26191-Good-Grips-Tenderizer/dp/B00004OCJJ

i have no idea if that helps curb the effects, but all of my chicken has been juicy and delicious

[Anonymous No.16995204]

>>16995024
thats what my dad does but instead he uses a rock im not sure if it helps or not since I never eat his food

[Anonymous No.16995212]

This must be an American thing, I've never once had chicken like this in Canada. And I eat chicken 3-4 times a week.

[Anonymous No.16995217]

>>16995212
I've had it in Australia, fucking sucks

[Anonymous No.16995237]

>>16995212
Could be something to do with how regulated Canada's poultry industry is

[Anonymous No.16995241]

>>16995212
It's a global problem with the poultry industry, the university of Guelph has done studies on it.

Pretend all you want its an American thing, but you just make yourself look like a retard when you do.

[Anonymous No.16995245]

>American food is shit
in other news water is wet

[Anonymous No.16995253]

>>16995241
Well it must be pretty rare here then, cause anons are talking about 50%+ prevalence in the US, while I've never yet experienced this, and I buy big backs of frozen bulk chicken, so it's not like I'm splurging on the highest grade stuff either.

[Anonymous No.16995261]

>>16994695
I'm noticing this too. It's most likely because we're mass farming chickens in the most inhumane, low cost way possible, causing all sorts of diseases and sickness that can't even be covered up with antibiotics/other drugs anymore. We've essentially reached the civilizational singularity, now comes the dark ages.

[Anonymous No.16995277]

>>16995253
Then you're lucky, or you just don't realize that's what you're eating.

I've seen Woody breast in Canada going back 5+ years, and it's gotten more common since COVID.

[Anonymous No.16995294]

I advise you to buy Latvian meat if you can find it.

[Anonymous No.16995341]

>>16994727
>bulk frozen
disregarded

[Anonymous No.16995342]

>>16995261
I'd rather survive off of .25 lbs of chicken meat a day instead of having 1lb of chicken breast meat

[Anonymous No.16995350]

You know, when you, like, you grab a chicken's breast and it's... and you feel it and... it feels like a bag of sand when you're touching it.

[Anonymous No.16995377]

>>16994721
A real man knows how to beat his cock, tender.

[Anonymous No.16995381]

>>16994871
>you really can't avoid it even if you try unless you're absurdly wealthy

Didn't know absurdly wealthy meant "not a literal food stamps hobo" now. Just don't buy low quality bulk frozen shit, it's that easy. I think I've run into this kind of chicken one time in my life and it's because I grabbed some manager special food lion brand shit because it was all that was available at the time, the rest of the time I just pick up whole birds whenever they go on sale, break them down, then pack and freeze the individual pieces. You get better quality meat, you get to choose whether you want it skin on/bone in or not, and you get the carcasses for making stock. Just stop being retarded.

[Anonymous No.16995404]

I dont think I've had anything but chicken thighs for the past decade. feels good bro

[Anonymous No.16995410]

>>16994794
>>16994835
Jesus. American agricultural industry is fucked up.

[Anonymous No.16995412]

>>16994871
raising chickens is relatively cheap,on par with having a couple dogs.

[Anonymous No.16995426]

>>16995261
>farming chickens in the most inhumane
chickens aren't human bro

[Anonymous No.16995463]

>>16995204
based caveman dad

[Anonymous No.16995473]

>>16995404
They're coming for us next, retard.

[Anonymous No.16995500]

>>16995426
That's not what inhumane means you retarded ESL shitter

[Anonymous No.16995504]

is this real ive never heard of it

[Anonymous No.16995515]

>>16995504
Yeah basically chicken breasts are getting extremely big and disgusting and crunchy
Try buying as small as possible

[Anonymous No.16995520]

>>16995515
ew wtf

[Anonymous No.16995542]

>>16995426
Its this sort of callous attitude that has helped lead us to our current fallen state

[Anonymous No.16995590]

>>16995520
yeah dude, I rather eat small 1/4lb chicken breasts than full 1 pounder chicken breasts.

[Anonymous No.16995596]

>oh shit maybe we should feed chickens actual food and give them more than a cubic foot to live in their whole life and not pump them full of hormones that make them hulkmode so fast their muscles literally rip apart

[Anonymous No.16995641]

>>16995596
Noooo that will bankrupt all the chicken farms
Think about thousands of jobs lost!!

[Anonymous No.16995658]

I have my own chickens but I couldn't bring myself to kill one unless I really had to. Plus I would be losing eggs! I will say this eating non drugged injected meat, you will realize how bad they've cheated you.

[Anonymous No.16995662]

>>16995658
>you will realize how bad they've cheated you.
I've never is there anywhere I can get some non drugged chicken meat?

[Anonymous No.16995666]

>>16995662
Local farm

[Anonymous No.16995676]

>>16995658
i want a chickie for eggs but it would be too sad if some faggot fox ate her in the night

[Anonymous No.16995726]

>>16995676
That's life, anon. Get another one and better fox protection

[Anonymous No.16995731]

>>16995658
That's why you eat the stewing hen after she's not laying anymore

[Anonymous No.16995782]

>>16995500
it's not humane to raise something to slaughter bro

[Anonymous No.16995822]

>>16995782
not that anon but if i had a chicken i would be too attached to it to kill it. sometimes i would want to pick it up and hug it but also some other times i remember that birds love to peck shiny things so i dont want my eyes pecked out

[Anonymous No.16995825]

>>16995412
Not if you're trying to raise enough of them to regularly slaughter and eat them, that guy's retarded for thinking there's no affordable chicken to be bought without resorting to bargain bin trash but for most people raising chickens (for meat, not just eggs) isn't really feasible.

[Anonymous No.16995832]

>>16995822
one of the first articles that I saw. be careful bros
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3591684/

[Anonymous No.16996195]

looks like fat to me

[Anonymous No.16996280]

>>16994794
It's obviously caused by extreme muscle growth, how the fuck are they claiming to not know why it'S happening.

[Anonymous No.16996326]

>>16996280
Because there are chickens that undergo identical breast growth and DON'T have woody breast?

It's only really been happening the last 10-15 years, yet we've had large chicken breasts without woody breast during this time as well coming from the same breeds and the same farms.

So no they don't know exactly why it's happening.

[Anonymous No.16996345]

>>16995641
>not muh profits!!!

[Anonymous No.16996355]

American conservatards will look at this picture, think that there's absolutely nothing wrong with it, and continue to suck cock at the alter of infinite growth capitalism.

[Anonymous No.16996361]

>>16996326
I think you underestimate the rapidity of which chickens have mutated in the past 20 years, much less the last 70

[Anonymous No.16996365]

>>16996326
I think you misunderstand. They know it's the rapid growth they're inducing. It's literally the dril candles tweet in poultry industry form.

[Anonymous No.16996374]

>>16996365
>>16996361
Yes, again, they KNOW it's caused by rapid muscle growth in the breast, they don't know why it only affects SOME of the chickens and not others from the same flock, with similar size breasts.

[Anonymous No.16996384]

>>16995641
thought about it, we need more starving people

[Anonymous No.16996441]

>>16994733
What's the fork trick

[Anonymous No.16996517]

>>16996441
take a fork, grab white tendon with paper towel fingers, yoink through fork, tendie is de tendoned,

[Anonymous No.16996527]

>>16995596
feed them the bugs so we dont have to eat the bugs

[Anonymous No.16997364]

>>16994733
Wtf theres muscles and tenderloins in my MEAT???
Just eat boneless wings and nuggets if youre really that autistic.

[Anonymous No.16997387]

>>16996355
Don’t forget blaming liberals for it as well

[Anonymous No.16997401]

>>16994695
It's been a long time since I ran into this; I think the supplier for the store I buy my chicken breasts from must filter out the defective meat at the slaughterhouse, in the six years I've been buying their gigantonormo 1# poultry pecs they've all been pretty normal.

I do remember this being an issue about ten years ago with chicken breast sandwiches I was getting from fast food places, but again it's been a while since I ran into that.

[Anonymous No.16997868]

>>16996355
THIS IS LIFE IN BIDEN'S AMERICA

[Anonymous No.16997887]

>>16994727
just buy from a local farmer?

[Anonymous No.16997928]

>>16994858
then do it. it's not hard to find free-range chicken, you just gotta pay for it

[Anonymous No.16997932]

>america
>US
>mutt
>biden
jesus christ, i've never used the term "rent free" before but holy shut you people are pathetic

[Anonymous No.16997937]

>>16997868
Stfu you dumb niggerfaggot, the Fed's been printing money and devaluing your wealth since its inception

[Anonymous No.16997940]

>>16997937
OK, KEEP ME POSTED

[Anonymous No.16997965]

>>16997940
easy to dismiss and shitpost about from bulgaria

[Anonymous No.16998400]

>>16994695
I can't buy chicken breasts anymore, the woody texture is so nauseating that it completely kills my appetite

[Anonymous No.16998454]

>>16994733
>I just hate that even when cooked you know the giant white tendon is still in there,
God thank you! I've been dealing with this for a long time and have nobody else even acknowledge it until now.

[Anonymous No.16998495]

https://zootecnicainternational.com/featured/understanding-the-woody-breast-syndrome-and-other-myopathies-in-modern-broiler-chickens/
Apparently it's a big enough issue that's costing the industry $1B/year as they have to sort the birds and divert the woody-breasted ones to supply chains bound for ground chicken producst like nuggies. They can detect it's development in chicks as early as 1 week old, so it's mostly a genetic thing.
>Grading and sorting the meat is currently done by several companies, but not all. The most common way is palpitation and visual inspection; however employing near infrared (NIR) is gaining popularity. The detection is based on the fact that WB meat has lower protein and higher moisture content. The sensor can work at a high speed of about 200 fillets per minute, which is essential when sorting meat at a high-speed processing plant (15,000 broilers per hour). The sensor is currently being used in several plants and fine- tuning is still going on. The goal is to have equipment with the lowest possible false positive / negative samples, as this can have a big effect.

[Anonymous No.16998546]

thanks anon i don't eat a lot of chicken i never knew this was an issue. does it affect thighs as well or is it just breast meat?

[Anonymous No.16998565]

>>16995204
I use a mason jar.
>>16995825
I raise meat and eggs chickens in my front yard. Cost me sub 8$ a bird. If your don't include coop costs. I spend about 30$ a month on feed years round except when I raise the neat birds then that doubles for two months.
They also make enough fertilizer that's I don't have to buy anything for my large garden.

[Anonymous No.16998729]

>>16994695
I've literally never come across this in my life. Where the fuck do you guys get food from? A medical testing facility?

[Anonymous No.16998730]

>>16994723
The feeling is mutual

[Anonymous No.16998754]

>>16998729
Ok now that I think of it I might have had this at a restaurant a few months ago. I thought they just overcooked the shit out of it but this would make more sense.

[Anonymous No.16998873]

the bagged frozen chicken rarely has the problem for me.

[Anonymous No.16998900]

What are you guys buying bargain basement catfood chicken or something? I've never ever gotten a chicken breast like this.

[Anonymous No.16998935]

stop eating chickens, they are our frens

[Anonymous No.16998956]

>>16998935
They're heartless beast.

[Anonymous No.16998967]

>>16994695
My sister has woody breasts so we have to rub massage oil into them and pull her nipples roughly.

[Anonymous No.16999077]

its got to the point I pay the extra dollar or two a lb and get organic breasts.

[Anonymous No.16999107]

>>16994695
I wonder if it's due to supply chain disruptions. perhaps some chickens aren't making it to slaughter in the normal amount of time so they're overgrowing

[Anonymous No.16999423]

>>16999107

Nah, it's been like this for years now. In my personal experience, it was actually worse a few years ago; at one point, I couldn't go to Popeye's without getting at least one woody tendie.

[Anonymous No.16999575]

>>16999423
the quality at popeyes is not indicative of anything bro. they use the cheapest shit they can buy

[Anonymous No.16999637]

>>16998400
same tbdesu *smooch*

[Anonymous No.16999714]

>>16999575

That's the thing; it's gotten a lot better since then. So either they got a supplier that's less shit or things are slowly improving.

[Anonymous No.16999744]

>>16997937
Then go live innawoods faggot, nobody here will miss you.

[Anonymous No.16999799]

>>16999714
either that or the restaurant had turnover and they aren't cooking it wrong

[Anonymous No.16999904]

>>16994721
Hard times create tough chicken
Tough chicken create good times
Good times create tender chicken
Tender chicken create tough times

[Anonymous No.16999922]

>>16994727
>Buy shit
>Get shit
Woooow

[Anonymous No.16999967]

>>16998565
Not everyone has the space or resources to dedicate to letting chickens roam their property, plus local regulations can make it fucking hell. Anyway unless you've got a straight up farm as your property I seriously doubt you're raising enough chickens to slaughter one every week or so to get the equivalent amount of meat to just buying it from the store regularly. Not saying it isn't great to do if you can manage it but most people can't. Either way, the point is you can get decent chicken from the store even on a poorfag budget, >>16994871 is retarded to think buying woody shit chicken is unavoidable.

[Anonymous No.17000366]

>>16999904
Tender chicken create *hard times
ugh

[Anonymous No.17000420]

>>17000366
Astute observation

[Anonymous No.17000427]

>>16995596
oh shit!!

[Anonymous No.17000441]

>people here buy breasts
I've been a thigh guy since atleast 2014

[Anonymous No.17000461]

>>16996527
>CHICKENS EAT THE BUGS
>WE EAT THE CHICKENS

PROBLEM SOLVED

[Anonymous No.17000498]

homesteader bros...can i raise enough chickens for 4 people on 4 acres + space for garden?

[Anonymous No.17001045]

why are you absolute retards buying breast

[Anonymous No.17001050]

>>17000461
hasn't klaus been arrested? will he still be able to force you to eat ze bugs?

[Anonymous No.17001053]

>>17000441
>>17001045
All parts of the chicken can be woody.

[Anonymous No.17001141]

>>16995277
This. In pretty much all grocery store chicken you get it fairly regularly, even in Canada. Like at least a third of the time.

[Anonymous No.17001216]

>>16999967
50 Chickens take me about two or three days a process. Then they get bagged and thrown into a chest freezer. The biggest issue is keeping them off the neighbors grass. Hes got a grub problem and the love to dig it up.

[Anonymous No.17001297]

>>17001216
that's not a chicken anon

[Anonymous No.17001430]

>>17001216
I ain't got room for 50 chickens, plus that's illegal here they'll only let you have like 10 max or something, not sure the exact number but it's around there.

[Anonymous No.17001453]

>>17001430
7 Weeks to harvest
20sqf of space per chicken, the size of small shed.
a few bucks a week of feed.
Do it a few times of the summer. Maybe an hour or two of work a week outside of butchering.
Not that Im advocating you do it Im just bored.

[Anonymous No.17001465]

>>16994695
Chicken sucks now. They feed them fishmeal and now all the dark meat smells fishy. Unless you want to pay extra for the organic, which defeats the point of chicken.

[Anonymous No.17001507]

>>16995426
but the farming of them is

[Anonymous No.17001525]

As long as you don't buy oversized mutant chickens and check for the muscle striation patterns you can avoid it completely. I used to have the same problem.

[Anonymous No.17001531]

>>17001465
is that what that is? the dark meat I've been eating lately is fucking weird. I wouldn't say it's "fishy" but it's not good, it has a weird strong taste that's hard to place. It's almost like the meat is from an old, wild chicken

[Anonymous No.17001899]

>>17001531
sometimes the thighs i make taste like fish and I cant tell if i'm crazy or not

[Anonymous No.17001919]

>>17001531
Gotta be something else. you can't mistake fishy chicken for anything else, it's that disgusting
>>17001899
not crazy. I'm telling you it's because they started using fishmeal in cheap chicken. I don't notice a fish taste, but definitely a fish smell

[Anonymous No.17001937]

>>17001465
>They feed them fishmeal and now all the dark meat smells fishy.
Shame about all those fish-tasting pigs. Also a shame you failed out of biology and had to take life-sciences in high school. Or do they just give you faggots HRT training instead these days?

[Anonymous No.17001983]

>>17001937
kek you're a retard. we know livestock feed affects flavor. bird and mammal metabolisms are also different. use google before outing yourself as a soilent vegan next time.

[Anonymous No.17002015]

>>17001983
>he's dumb enough to think chickens won't eat anything in the yard
Birbs will attack and consume insects, worms, and even small mammals. This is not when they are starving. Chickens are just greedy fuckers. Yeah if you feed them pure sure it tastes like nothing, but fish =/= fish. That's mom-science.

[Anonymous No.17002019]

>>17001937
What is that picture supposed to be, it's just a guy painting a roof.

[Anonymous No.17002062]

>>17002015
are you trying to claim an animals taste isn't affected by the food they eat?

[Anonymous No.17002066]

>>17002015
It's just biochemistry. Fishy smell on sea fish is owed to a specific amino acid which breaks down into a smelly component called trimethylamine after the fish is dead. That's why you cut fish on its own cutting board, because surfaces that handle fish are tainted with the smell of trimethylamine.
This amino acid is broken down by an enzyme produced by the FMO3 gene, which both mammals and chickens have. In humans, this enzyme breaks down trimethylamine into non-volatile compounds and we (nor pigs) smell like fish after eating it. However, if you have a genetic mutation in this gene, it doesn't produce proper enzymes and you get a disease called trimethylaminuria, which causes you to sweat out fish smell and stink like fish if you consume any.
In chickens, the FMO3 gene has been documented to function differently. When creating the enzyme, it replaces an amino acid with a different one, causing the enzyme not to fully break down trimethylamine. This causes trimethylamine to be deposited into egg yolk and the chicken's own blood serum.
There is variation in the degree to which chickens can actually break down trimethylamine, but it varies.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0888754305000972
https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/226142342.pdf
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0032579119395756#bib13

[Anonymous No.17002073]

>>17002066
>we (nor pigs) smell like fish after eating it
we (nor pigs) don't* smell like fish after eating it

[Anonymous No.17002078]

>>16998495
I can no longer find any chicken that doesnt have those lines in any store in my area now. I used to check for it even years ago to avoid, but now it doesnt even matter

[Anonymous No.17002836]

>>17002066
Owned

[Anonymous No.17002894]

>>17001465
i noticed this for a long time. even white meat tastes fishy. I hate it so much. I just want meat fed by natural foods not fish food.

[Anonymous No.17002902]

>>17001465
>which defeats the point of chicken.
And just what is the point of chicken, in your special little world?

[Anonymous No.17002906]

>>16994729
You have to look closely.
If it has white horizontal striations don't use it unless you plan on grinding it up or something of that sort.

[Anonymous No.17002907]

>>17002902
i would guess it being a cheaper source of protein

[Anonymous No.17002925]

>>17002907
What are beans, oh right, muh peta vegan conspiracy, disregard the only way to get protein is meat no matter how cheap and shitty it's still better than muh peta vegan conspiracy

[Anonymous No.17002930]

>>16998495
I remember getting excited seeing one of these in the store thinking I found some really fatty breasts and thinking that I lucked out.
Only to realize after cooking up some, that its roughly inedible unless made into the smallest pieces possible.

[Anonymous No.17002936]

>>16995212
I'm a leaf and I've eaten some once, it was fucking awful

[Anonymous No.17002938]

>>16994695
>tastes like chewy rubber no matter how you cook it,
you're a shit cook if this is the case.

[Anonymous No.17002947]

>>17002925
dios mio...

[Anonymous No.17002983]

>>17001453
Do chickens like cake lmao

[Anonymous No.17002993]

>>17002902
>>17002925
the fuck? chicken is cheap and good, that's what the point of it is. I also enjoy beans dumbass

[Anonymous No.17003011]

>>17002938
Send all of your woody breast to this guy, since he's apparently figured out how to do something with it besides grind it into nuggies.

[Anonymous No.17003018]

>>17003011
you pound it flat, like with all chicken breast that isn't brined

[Anonymous No.17003058]

>>17001465
They're slowly making all commercial meat more expensive and lower quality to ease the public into the transition to fake meat which has a much higher profit margin. Mark my words, 90% of the facebook boomers who stomp and yell about "I won't let them take my meat away!" Will willingly and quietly desist from eating meat in the next ten years because real meat will taste like shit and have garbage texture while the fake soy food will texturally uniform and flavored like cocainebeefcheese or something. Then the only people who will get to enjoy real meat will be farmers and the uber rich until meat is outright banned for being "cruel" for everyone who makes under 1mil a year.

[Anonymous No.17003071]

>>17003058
so just raise your own animal.

[Anonymous No.17003079]

>>17003071
Yeah let me raise a cow in my apartment

[Anonymous No.17003114]

>>17003079
why not?. sell it for $$$$ to your neighbors.

[Anonymous No.17003163]

>>16994695
>without these muscle defects
in Canada it depends on the store and which supply chain they use
I can go to a safeway/sobeys/walmart and it will be 95+% woody breast
I can go to Costco/loblaws/superstore and never get a woody breast ever
>>16994729
you can't even tell until you cook it. even if it's cooked with a thermometer it just shreds apart in leathery strips like pulled pork but tougher. i feel bad giving it to my dog.

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>>16999904
>Good times create chicken tendies
>Chicken tendies create tough times

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>>17003079
That's no way to talk about your sister

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>>16994727
>chicken you buy in a frozen bulk bag is affected
anon.... buy fresh chicken in bulk and some plastic wrap. stop being a lazy cunt.

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>>16998495
>WB meat has lower protein and higher moisture content
Evolution at work. Some chick randomly mutated into cheating the breast muscule size by overfilling it with water. That protein can be repurposed for things that actually need it or be not made in the first place to let the body rest from the constant grow grow growth. So it spread like wildfire because the farmer gets the same sized chicken, but healthier and who gives a shit that the meat is worse.
Imagine how many other mutations like this happened but the decline in quality wasn't enough for people to notice, so it became the new, worse, quality. Chickens out of all livestock have the highest evolutionary pressure because they live so short and there's so many of them.