Green Chicken Meat

[GlorifiedRice]

I saw this insipid story on DailyMailUK (dont judge me, lol) about a British woman cooking a fresh chicken to serve her family and when she cut into it the inside meat was green.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3083770/Woman-s-horror-carved-fresh-chicken-bought-Morrisons-roast-Sunday-lunch-discover-meat-inside-GREEN.html

 

I did some research and found out that its due to muscle death due to being cramped in cages.

 

http://www.cfs.gov.hk/english/whatsnew/whatsnew_fst/whatsnew_fst_Green_Meat_in_Chickens.html

 

Interesting...

[SylviaLovegren]

That is totally disgusting.  Things like this only encourage my determination to eat only animals that have been raised without torture.  Expensive and as a consequence we eat less meat.    I will refrain from a lengthy disquisition on socializing the costs and privatizing the profits that is at the heart of most agribusiness today.  

[Smithy]

Interesting, indeed. It's difficult to see how the grocery store could, with a straight face, explain the interior green color as mold due to improper packaging.

Thanks for the extra research. I hadn't heard about Green Muscle Disease/Oregon Disease before now. It's another reason for me to keep working away from factory-farmed meat. We have spirited discussions about cost vs. care in my household, but like SylviaLovegren I'll refrain from bringing the debate to the screen.

[radtek]

Well it's gotten to the point that I really don't care for commercial chicken at all. Last time I bought it is was bad before the sell by date. Yeah that gives me confidence. Outright disgusting really- if it is under-cooked you could get sick. Wow that stimulates my appetite I tell you what.

 

Eschew chicken for better protein IMO unless you can vett the bird as separate from the industrial gene pool and ethically free range raised.

[gfweb]

Disgusting, yes, but (if the links are correct) the infection  risk from undercooking isn't any more than with regular chicken. Its not infected, just muscle that died from decreased circulation exactly analogous to a heart attack, (probably pretty close to death too...if it had been in the bird for many days it would be more obviously dead and beginning to break down, and if for some weeks it would be converted to scar).

 

Still completely disgusting.  I wonder how much of this ends up in McNuggets...

[Shel_B]

I saw this insipid story on DailyMailUK (dont judge me, lol) about a British woman cooking a fresh chicken to serve her family and when she cut into it the inside meat was green.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3083770/Woman-s-horror-carved-fresh-chicken-bought-Morrisons-roast-Sunday-lunch-discover-meat-inside-GREEN.html

 

 

The article says:

 

Miss Milburn was forced to discard the meat and just serve vegetables to her starving relatives.

 

Miss Milburn immediately contacted Morrisons customer services and kept the chicken in her

fridge in case they wanted it for testing.

 

How does one discard the chicken while keeping the chicken in the fridge for possible testing?  Just curious ...

 

[Shel_B]

Coincidentally, last week I watched this Frontline episode titled The Trouble With Chickens.  Just click and watch if you're so inclined.

 

Step by step I am moving further from commercially raised meat and poultry ...

[GlorifiedRice]

 

The article says:

 

Miss Milburn was forced to discard the meat and just serve vegetables to her starving relatives.

 

Miss Milburn immediately contacted Morrisons customer services and kept the chicken in her

fridge in case they wanted it for testing.

 

How does one discard the chicken while keeping the chicken in the fridge for possible testing?  Just curious ...

 

 

Its the Dailymail....enough said. DM forgets to finish sentences