Hormone-Free Chicken

[Jabrat]

How many of you eat hormone-free chicken - just wondering.  Eating hormone-fed chicken is not cool!

[carl669]

we buy local, organic chicken whenever we can.  the farm is actually 5 miles from our house.  we've even been there because they also sell pasture raised beef.  we've always been able to talk to the owners.  great people and there's something soothing about knowing exactly where your meat is coming from and how it's being raised.  nothing like a nice, thick, juicy steak from a pastured cow, topped with a big pat of butter (also from a pastured cow).  

unfortunately, the store does not always have it in stock.  we're thinking about getting a freezer and doing a quarter cow this year.

[guineawheat]

Fun fact: it's against federal regulation to feed chickens hormones. Beef does, but not chickens. What you really got to watch out for is antibiotic fed chicken and those that are not free range. I find a "good" chicken is Purdue. They use antibiotics but at least everything else is good so it's a less-of-two-evils sort of decision. (most) Chickens that are not free range are stuffed into little cages so small that their feet start to grow into the wires (seriously, the pictures are heart breaking). Any animal under that much stress cannot produce good food. 

Check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poultry_farming for more information.