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It's difficult to appreciate how freakish industrially farmed chicken is until you have a comparison point. I'm typing this in Fiji, and yesterday purchased th

It's difficult to appreciate how freakish industrially farmed chicken is until you have a comparison point. I'm typing this in Fiji, and yesterday purchased three local chicken breasts: the total weight including skin and some cartilage/bone was around 500g, which is about the same as a single factory-farmed, boneless, skinless breast fillet in Australia.

sergers 8y ago
500g is about weight of 3 boneless chicken breasts with no skin, at most grocery stores in BC Canada. It is farmed chicken. Australia must have some really bad chicken.
zaphirplane 8y ago
I was skeptical and looked it up,200g for 1/2 a breast fillet, that was surprising heavy https://www.chicken.org.au/chicken-cuts/ https://www.chicken.org.au/chicken-cuts/
pvaldes 8y ago
Modern farms didn't supersized chicken. We are comparing a yorkshire terrier with a St. Bernard. As with dogs, There are many types of chicken for different purposes. Some are good egglayers, other are selected for its meat. Red junglefowl roosters range around 2-3 Kg, whereas purely ornamental Serama can reach 340g and are a little bigger than a blackbird. On the other hand, anybody could grow huge chicken in their backyard, bigger than any industrially farmed bird. You can breed easily 6Kg `Giant Jersey' or `Brahma' roosters if you want. There are even 10Kg roosters (bigger than a turkey). Is just that they eat a lot and take its time to grow, so the rate conversion between grain and meat is poor. Industry does not breed it. Biggest chicken are farmed organically by a few farmers. Fiji chicken are probaby a landrace, a genetic mix of multipurpose bantam, egglayers and game fowl that are much more easy to keep (being active, healthy and smart birds able to free-range and care for themselves). Nothing bad with that. Meat of those would be definitely harder (more muscle and less fat) but tasty, top quality and from chicken living much happier lifes probably.
- dwd 8y ago
  Free range chickens in Asia are similar - the ones you would see wandering the local village. Freshly killed and the taste is amazing like you somehow marinated the meat in chicken stock to get a strong, almost gamey taste. Nothing like your standard supermarket frozen chook.
  - aeternus 8y ago
    > strong, almost gamey taste Many people don't like that so farmers spent quite awhile breeding out the gamey taste. Only recently is it coming back into favor.
    - dwd 8y ago
      The organic chicken from the local butcher is the only sort that comes close and it usually far less stringy.

sergers 8y ago

500g is about weight of 3 boneless chicken breasts with no skin, at most grocery stores in BC Canada. It is farmed chicken. Australia must have some really bad chicken.

zaphirplane 8y ago

I was skeptical and looked it up,200g for 1/2 a breast fillet, that was surprising heavy https://www.chicken.org.au/chicken-cuts/ https://www.chicken.org.au/chicken-cuts/

pvaldes 8y ago

Modern farms didn't supersized chicken. We are comparing a yorkshire terrier with a St. Bernard. As with dogs, There are many types of chicken for different purposes. Some are good egglayers, other are selected for its meat. Red junglefowl roosters range around 2-3 Kg, whereas purely ornamental Serama can reach 340g and are a little bigger than a blackbird. On the other hand, anybody could grow huge chicken in their backyard, bigger than any industrially farmed bird. You can breed easily 6Kg `Giant Jersey' or `Brahma' roosters if you want. There are even 10Kg roosters (bigger than a turkey). Is just that they eat a lot and take its time to grow, so the rate conversion between grain and meat is poor. Industry does not breed it. Biggest chicken are farmed organically by a few farmers. Fiji chicken are probaby a landrace, a genetic mix of multipurpose bantam, egglayers and game fowl that are much more easy to keep (being active, healthy and smart birds able to free-range and care for themselves). Nothing bad with that. Meat of those would be definitely harder (more muscle and less fat) but tasty, top quality and from chicken living much happier lifes probably.

dwd 8y ago
Free range chickens in Asia are similar - the ones you would see wandering the local village. Freshly killed and the taste is amazing like you somehow marinated the meat in chicken stock to get a strong, almost gamey taste. Nothing like your standard supermarket frozen chook.
- aeternus 8y ago
  > strong, almost gamey taste Many people don't like that so farmers spent quite awhile breeding out the gamey taste. Only recently is it coming back into favor.
  - dwd 8y ago
    The organic chicken from the local butcher is the only sort that comes close and it usually far less stringy.