• anonionfinelyminced@kbin.social
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    8 months ago

    Approximately 29,819 pounds of the Fun Nuggets are impacted
    The contaminated nuggets were made on Sept. 5

    30,000 lbs is 1 day’s worth of production?? Of 1 type of product? I’m not sure why, but I find that appalling.

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      8 months ago

      Chicken mass production is pretty disturbing when you get into the numbers and details

      Same for other meat industries

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        8 months ago

        Yeah, I’m not morally opposed to eating meat per se, but factory farming is something else entirely. I long for a world where cultured meat is cheaper than the real deal.

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          Same, so many are weirded out by scientific meat but I welcome it over needing to slaughter hundreds of thousands of chicken daily

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          We’re still at least 5 years away from cultured meat even being available in supermarkets, let alone competitive with factory farmed animal-based meat. I’m so happy to have gone vegan and I’m never looking back. The entire industry is horrifying.

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      How many chickens lived their lives in a cage smaller than themselves only to get ground together with their friends to make 33,000 lbs of dino nuggets? The meat industry and the way we care for livestock need a complete overhaul.

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          That is a 3lb chicken. Cornish cross chickens (which is what they would be using for something like this)would be slaughtered at 9-10 weeks which would make them 10-14 lbs.

          So using your ratios above, 1 chicken yields 4.5 lbs of cooked meat, which means 7,333.333333333333 chickens.

          It’s substantial less chickens.

          Although the amount of harvested meat would be higher because they grind everything into a paste as you noted.

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            8 months ago

            Also, multiply your number by two because they immediately send the males to the grinder.

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      8 months ago

      I don’t understand. What do you expect out of a company that distributes nationally? The US has a population of 330+ million. That’s a lot of mouths to feed.

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      It’s not unheard of for Americans to eat at least a pound of meat per day.

      30,000 is a drop in the bucket.

      but I find that appalling.

      Probably because you’re not able to comprehend feeding 300 million people.