Comments on: JiRaffe (sensitive vegans may wanna skip this)

By: Siel

Siel — Fri, 07 Jul 2006 01:52:11 +0000

Hmmm — Interesting! Lil did I know — I’ll have to do a lil more research on it for a Cali chicken post :)

By: condiment

condiment — Mon, 03 Jul 2006 17:22:26 +0000

California’s food-safety standards, like its auto-emissions standards, are a bit stricter than the national ones. All chickens sold in the state are hormone and antibiotic-free, as far as I know, even if the factory-farm product from Foster Farms et al. doesn’t taste particularly good. (Zacky, the big brand that really was tasty, and the only brand to be e. coli-free in newspaper tests, seems to have been subsumed by the corporate octopus.)

I wouldn’t dream of buying beef or pork from the local supermarket – except, rarely, when it is sourced from Farmer John, whose stuff is on the low side of okay – but when I can’t make the trip across town to pick up an organic Shelton roaster, I’ll go with the stuff from Ralph’s. The truly egregious national chicken brands, Tyson and its ilk, don’t make their way into the state.

By: Siel

Siel — Fri, 10 Feb 2006 06:23:26 +0000

BbB — Agreed, except I always remember my heartaches :)

Merci, Maya! J’aime que vous avez repondu en francais :)

Russ — At the moment, I’m wondering a bit what hormones “in” poultry means. I mean, from reading Fast Food Nation, it seems clear that chickens are fed all sorts of crap — including cow — that’s right, cow — that’s been hormoned (new verb?). But perhaps it’s illegal to directly inject chickens with hormones? Not sure… Will have to pester some poultry peeps to find out –

ilan — barcamp sounds super cool! I’m going to the Fair Trade LA event on 3/5, but maybe I can participate on 3/4? Will email and try to find out more.

Josh — McDonald’s has indeed started serving Green Mountain Coffee! I’m hoping fair trade coffee will permeate all McD’s soon… But you’re right — Still got 12,874 reasons to go ;)

By: Josh

Josh — Thu, 09 Feb 2006 23:16:07 +0000

Supposedly North Easterners’ McDonalds will start serving organic coffee. Paul Newman organic at that. That’s great. One less reason to hate McDs. So the list is down to 12,874 now.

By: Russ

Russ — Thu, 09 Feb 2006 21:35:58 +0000

An interesting thing I learned last week… According to FDA regulations, hormones in poultry are illegal. Whether or not this is followed, or whether farmers illegally give hormones to poultry I don’t know, but I was suprised to find that out after always making sure that any chicken I bought was antibiotic and hormone free. Of course I’ll still look for the antibiotic free sticker… But the hormone thing surprised me, made me think of the “fat-free” stickers on salsa.