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Offline spitfiredd1

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Can Chicken eat a grain fed diet?
« on: March 14, 2012, 10:12:56 pm »
I have read that birds produce the enzymes that enable them to digest break down the many lectins, phytates and all the other anti-nutrients that are found in grains. 

If it ok to eat chicken if they have been fed a grain fed diet?  I know places like Earthfare, Whole Foods and my local Fresh Market all sell chicken that has been pasture raised with not hormones or anti-biotics and are fed a vegetarian diet (probably GMO grains but I can ask further).  I know birds eat bugs, berries and seeds naturally do; so I am sure the "vegetarian" diet they are fed doesn't include bugs and berries would be too expensive. 

Do any of you eat these chicken?  I've eaten a Rotisserie chicken before it was tasty just wondering if I'm eating something that is loaded with junk.

Sigh I guess I'll have to have a farm one day so I can grow/raise my own food....
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Re: Can Chicken eat a grain fed diet?
« Reply #1 on: March 14, 2012, 10:52:07 pm »
Cooked chicken tastes great, but raw chicken is not doable for my wife and I.

To learn about how chickens should be raised, check out Joe Salata's Youtubes on his farm in the USA.
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Re: Can Chicken eat a grain fed diet?
« Reply #2 on: March 14, 2012, 11:08:23 pm »
Ya that's why I posed it on the 'hot topics' section; I am just not sure how I feel about eating raw chicken.  But I am more of a high raw person.

I do want to know what's the best way to raise chickens so I can ask the right questions.  I do know that Earthfare/wholefoods only have chickens that aren't fed hormones or antibiotics so that's a step in the right direction if you ask me.
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Re: Can Chicken eat a grain fed diet?
« Reply #3 on: March 15, 2012, 09:55:12 am »
I don't think chickens that eat a partially grain-based diet would be too bad to eat raw. 

 

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