As if we don't already have enough food worries...

Now they're saying we shouldn't buy raw chicken with white striping.

https://www.aol.com/article/lifestyl...ping/21706672/

What's funny is before I heard about this, I never even paid attention to any 'white striping' (or streaky chicken, not to be confused with streaky bacon) in the chicken I was buying. But the other day at the grocery, I noticed that about 90% of all the raw chicken breasts, regardless of manufacturer, were streaked with the white stripes. I was like great... NOW what?

I ended up not buying any. And I really wanted some nice chicken breasts for a meal I had planned to make. But this 'streaky chicken' news stuck in my head and I was afraid to buy it.

I don't know if this is just a thing in the states or what, which is why I bring it up, wondering if anyone in the UK, etc, has heard about this.

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I have had Chicken with this white thread running through it , and found it tough to cut through .Not had any warnings in UK as far as i know Linda, and i would avoid these in future

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It's saying it's still safe for consumption, but raises fat content up pretty high, plus gives indication of the conditions the chickens were raised in. I don't know why I even still eat meat, considering I've seen some pretty horrific things that the animals go through. I watched a video years ago (won't go into graphic detail) that actually put me off of all meat for a good long time. Then the shock value wore off and I started eating it again.

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My husband has just announced he's going vegetarian ! Never thought I'd hear that from my meat eater but he's fed up of the way animals are now being raised and treated. That makes cooking here easier as unless grace fancies meat we will all be veggies !

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I don't blame him, honestly. Like you said, Julie, the way the animals are treated is beyond comprehension. Granted, not all of them are treated poorly. But one visual that I can probably never unsee is one of a cow being shot through its head with a bolt, which is how they put a lot of them down, and it fell to the ground and made this awful sound because, obviously, it was in so much pain. Then the chicken farms where these poor birds are literally stacked on top of each other in cages. It's sickening. I know people are trying to make a buck, but it's total disregard for the animals. And I can't talk. I'm part of it.

It makes you wonder, though, that if everyone stopped eating meat, what happens to the surviving animals? Of course they would have to slow down or even halt breeding, but there are a LOT of animals out there sitting on death row.

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Hi

It is far more of an issue in the USA than in the UK.

Our space requirements are higher and we have a different breed of commercial chickens in the UK.

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Many places have changed their practices and have cleaned up conditions. But I don't think enough of them have.

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I don't eat chicken so buy any these days.
In the past when I cooked it for others I purchased organic and free range where possible and never saw any 'white lines'

Perhaps the lines are just in intensively reared birds.

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At my grocery, I saw the white lines even in the 'organic' chickens. Now that I'm looking for it, I'm seeing it everywhere.

Thanks, people, for making me paranoid of poultry, LOL

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Don't worry. If the chicken doesn't get us, the diesel fumes will.