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Ichingcarpenter

(36,988 posts)
Fri Jul 26, 2013, 06:05 AM Jul 2013

Yummy USDA inspected Boneless Chicken Breasts



About the real photo


http://now.msn.com/chicken-foot-in-safeway-chicken-breast-package-photo-tweeted



Meanwhile:


The Obama administration is on the verge of dramatically scaling back the US Department of Agriculture's oversight of the nation's largest chicken and turkey slaughterhouses—while also allowing companies to speed up their kill lines.

Currently, each factory-scale slaughterhouse has four USDA inspectors overseeing kill lines churning out up to 140 birds every minute. Under the USDA's new plan, a single federal inspector would oversee lines killing as many as 175 birds per minute. That would mean there are three fewer inspectors for a production line running 25 percent faster. (The line rates at turkey slaughterhouses are, for obvious reasons, slower, but would also be sped up under the new rules).


http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/05/us/usda-poultry-inspection-plan-sets-off-dispute.html?_r=0
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Yummy USDA inspected Boneless Chicken Breasts (Original Post) Ichingcarpenter Jul 2013 OP
pickeled Niceguy1 Jul 2013 #1
Brings back memories of Mrs. Rosengart's... meaculpa2011 Jul 2013 #2
What we need now is a backyard fryolator Berlum Jul 2013 #3
Are those typically packaged at the slaughterhouse? surrealAmerican Jul 2013 #4
Poultry is usually received prepackaged Trekologer Jul 2013 #5
Ah, the Hand of Gollum! canoeist52 Jul 2013 #6
That's a bonus!! Puzzledtraveller Jul 2013 #7
Oh great now a chicken foot is Obama's fault. mathematic Jul 2013 #8
That's some GOOD inspecting. n/t leeroysphitz Jul 2013 #9
a reminder that meat was once an animal dembotoz Jul 2013 #10
They serve them Crepuscular Jul 2013 #11
It is the chicken inspection change dude Ichingcarpenter Jul 2013 #12
Let's also blame customerserviceguy Jul 2013 #13
Isn't that because of the sequester? jazzimov Jul 2013 #14
No... it was advanced way before Ichingcarpenter Jul 2013 #15
Meh. HappyMe Jul 2013 #16

meaculpa2011

(918 posts)
2. Brings back memories of Mrs. Rosengart's...
Fri Jul 26, 2013, 07:05 AM
Jul 2013

chicken soup with everything floating in it, including the beak and the feet.

On the way there, every time, my Mom would remind us: "Shut up and eat what she puts in front of you."

surrealAmerican

(11,363 posts)
4. Are those typically packaged at the slaughterhouse?
Fri Jul 26, 2013, 07:30 AM
Jul 2013

I thought supermarkets made them up in the store.

Also, it's just a chicken foot, no more of a problem than if it were a wing or drumstick.

Trekologer

(997 posts)
5. Poultry is usually received prepackaged
Fri Jul 26, 2013, 07:35 AM
Jul 2013

While beef is usually received as a whole side and cut in the store.

Crepuscular

(1,057 posts)
11. They serve them
Fri Jul 26, 2013, 10:09 AM
Jul 2013

deep fried, as snacks, in China. Very crunchy, kinda like potato chips.

Amazing what some people get their panties in a bunch over.

Ichingcarpenter

(36,988 posts)
12. It is the chicken inspection change dude
Fri Jul 26, 2013, 10:11 AM
Jul 2013

not your panties.

Oh good we are as good as china now....... wow

customerserviceguy

(25,183 posts)
13. Let's also blame
Fri Jul 26, 2013, 05:31 PM
Jul 2013

whoever it was at the store who unpacked them from the supplier, and who had one more opportunity to check when it was placed on a store shelf. Seems like a lot of people just didn't give a damn.

jazzimov

(1,456 posts)
14. Isn't that because of the sequester?
Fri Jul 26, 2013, 05:49 PM
Jul 2013

Isn't that one of the things that Obama warned us about? Or tried to?

HappyMe

(20,277 posts)
16. Meh.
Fri Jul 26, 2013, 06:12 PM
Jul 2013

So what? Lots of people eat the feet. A bunch of them along with some other parts make great stock.

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