/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.17345034]

How true is the "Chiken nuggets are made out of baby chicks" thing? Is it just some fake vegan propaganda they spread?

I tried google, and it only returns results from pro-vegan websites such a humaneleague or peta. Seems sketchy.

I still don't care if the answer is yes. just need to know in case I get into an argument one day.

[Anonymous No.17345046]

>>17345034
Barely any meat on those little cunts, no, they're like 90% offal, bone and feather.

[Anonymous No.17345049]

It's a lie. It's white meat mixed with scraps.

[Anonymous No.17345057]

>>17345034
Of course not, what an absurd claim

[Anonymous No.17345067]

That would obviously be a ridiculous effort.

[Anonymous No.17345110]

>>17345034
Oh yea, instead of just selling 2 dozen eggs it's better to let them hatch to make one single chicken nugget.
What they are made out of is shit cuts of chicken due to poor sanitation or genetic deterioration like woody meat

[Anonymous No.17345224]

they grow these chickens inside of like two weeks or whatever so technically they are chicks but only if you think about it like a fag would

[Anonymous No.17345411]

>>17345034
It wouldn't be profitable to use baby chicks for food

[Anonymous No.17345519]

>>17345034
it's true in the sense that they grind up the male chicks and feed it back to the hens

[Anonymous No.17345582]

>>17345519
>and feed it back to the hens
I'm pretty sure that's illegal since doing something similar is what caused mad cow disease. Plus every package of eggs and chicken seems to say "vegetarian-fed" on it. They probably use it for pet food or something else like that.

[Anonymous No.17345619]

>>17345582
that's 100% what they do with the chicks and I've never seen "vegetarian-fed" label chicken and eggs, at least in America

[Anonymous No.17345638]

they feed the eggs they can't sell back to the chickens as well

[Anonymous No.17345643]

>>17345619
Chickens are omnivores

[Anonymous No.17345650]

>>17345643
no shit genius, that's why they feed them ground up chicks

[Anonymous No.17345651]

>>17345619
Got any proof they do it? I'm in the US and see it all the time on packages.

[Anonymous No.17345654]

>>17345651
show me your egg package where it says it. i've never seen that label.

[Anonymous No.17345655]

>>17345034
No, they aren't. The male baby chickens are ground up in an industrial grinder for the egg industry though. I dont know if they're used for anything but it's some disgustingly evil shit.

[Anonymous No.17345669]

>>17345654
Perdue specifically made a bunch of commercials about how great it is that they don't feed their chickens animal byproducts and are on vegetarian diets, even though chickens are omnivores. But you see the vegetarian diet on their packages.

[Anonymous No.17345672]

>>17345669
show me your egg package where it says it.

[Anonymous No.17345687]

>>17345672

[Anonymous No.17345696]

>>17345687
that's not your egg package now is it? i have a package of expensive eggs in my fridge right now that doesn't have it. chickens are most definitely fed the ground up chicks and leftover chicken parts. in fact it's probably a healthier diet than vegetarian since they are omnivores.

[Anonymous No.17345720]

>>17345696
Not the exact package in my fridge but I usually have the same brand which says it too. If it's what happens then you should be able to find some kind of guidelines about it from a government agency. Some packages not saying it isn't proof that it happens. Not trying to argue for no reason. I'd just like to know what actually happens and claims with no attempt to provide any kind of proof aren't very reliable.

[Anonymous No.17345731]

>>17345720
why do you think they try to differentiate themselves with that label genius? i'm telling you 100% that what happens to the chicks. it's used as feed for animals including chickens.

[Anonymous No.17345742]

>>17345731
Could just be a marketing decision if they think it'd be more appealing to customers to see that. Most probably don't care. Just throwing around insults don't make your arguments seem any more credible though.

[Anonymous No.17345746]

>>17345742
it's pretty obvious. i'm not arguing i'm telling you.

[Anonymous No.17345751]

>>17345696
>i have a package of expensive eggs in my fridge right now that doesn't have it.
This sounds very much like a "you problem" here.

[Anonymous No.17345758]

>>17345696
are you pretending that kirkland signature eggs aren't real either

[Anonymous No.17345760]

all the chicken nuggets I've made were exclusively from newborn peeping chicks

[Anonymous No.17345761]

>>17345751
what the fuck does that even mean?

[Anonymous No.17345774]

>>17345696
This one actually is my egg package
it for sure says 100% vegetarian fed

[Anonymous No.17345786]

>>17345761
just cause you like to buy cannibalism eggs doesn't mean that all the eggs of the world are part of your chick grinding cult

[Anonymous No.17345823]

>>17345774
guess i never paid attention. my carton doesn't say it. the only reason i can think they would do that is people were somehow upset at one point that chickens are fed "animal byproducts" which is still a common practice. not sure why chickens and eggs are special, but not all of them are "vegetarian".

[Anonymous No.17345845]

it's not even necessarily a bad thing... small homestead-type chicken growers know that feeding chickens meat and bonemeal can improve their health and egg laying

[Anonymous No.17346273]

>>17345034
It’s made from little s raps of meat and cartilage and whatnot that’s still on the carcass after the other cuts were processed off.

[Anonymous No.17346479]

>>17345034
I'm vegan and I think peta is no good

[Anonymous No.17346537]

>>17345034
It's not true at all. You can literally watch videos of the process on YT. They mince the meat, add salt n' shit, and then glue it back together again in 6 common shapes iirc.

[Anonymous No.17346677]

>>17345034
It's shredded chicken breast from older, bulkier birds. Baby chicks are too small to have much in the way of meat.

[Anonymous No.17346687]

>>17345619
That'd be highly inefficient and dangerous. They'd be eating prions and we'd have mad chicken disease. THe reason there's non-"vegetarian fed" labels on some eggs and chicken is because a lot of chicken nowadays is free range and they eat a lot of bugs and worms as they're omnivores.

[Anonymous No.17346712]

>>17345034
It's true, they grind them whole. This is how ground chicken is made. McChickens are exclusively made from baby chicks too.

1/2 the chicks hatched are male but they're not used in laying barns. So they are killed as early as they can be sexed and made into ground chicken.

[Anonymous No.17346719]

>>17345034
Unwanted baby chicks are ground up and turned into hog feed, not nuggets.