Chicken: Favorites and Prep

[blue_dolphin]

On 5/20/2007 at 11:53 AM, budrichard said:

A few weeks ago I would have said any locally grown bird but today it's one fed on US grain and not melamine laced feed from China.-Dick

 

1 hour ago, dcarch said:

 

Not sure where you got your information from.

US export chickens to China, not the other way around.

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dcarch

Given the date, I suspect @budrichard was referring to the “Melamine Incident” where both food products, particularly dairy products, and animal feeds exported from China to countries around the world were found to be adulterated with melamine, apparently in an attempt to appear higher in protein.  
 

 

Edited 2 hours ago by blue_dolphin
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[dcarch]

15 minutes ago, blue_dolphin said:

 

Given the date, I suspect @budrichard was referring to the “Melamine Incident” where both food products, particularly dairy products, and animal feeds were found to be adulterated with melamine, apparently in an attempt to appear higher in protein.  
 

 

 

Possible. That was an incident happened around 2009. It seems to me that China today is a very different country. China is a different country every 5 years.

 

dcarch

[blue_dolphin]

9 minutes ago, dcarch said:

 

Possible. That was an incident happened around 2009. It seems to me that China today is a very different country. China is a different country every 5 years.

 

dcarch

The article I cited was published in 2009 but pet foods and animal feeds produced in the US and other countries were being recalled due to melamine-adulterated ingredients imported from China in early 2007 and melamine in chicken feed was very much in the news at the time @budrichard posted his comment in this topic.
Melamine contaminant found in chicken feed
US says some chicken feed tainted

Tainted poultry has entered food supply

So I agree with your conclusion that it’s possibly related to his comment!

 

 

[SLB]

On 9/1/2025 at 1:21 PM, blue_dolphin said:

Judy bird

That's what I'm calling it now, too.  

 

And those Sasso birds look incredible.  Mmmm.