Russian chicken

Cian O'Connor cian_oconnor at yahoo.co.uk
Tue Mar 12 11:44:15 PST 2002


Well its also produced with various growth hormones, anti-biotics and all the other horrors of industrialised farming - as well as cramming tens of chickens to a cage. It tastes fcking terrible, probably kills you, creates antibiotic immune bacteria, but you sure can produce a lot of it.

--- Chuck Grimes <cgrimes at rawbw.com> wrote: >
> I understand that it's crap,(at least I do now) I
> just don't understand how
> it's cheaper. Even our underpaid chicken plant
> workers would make a lot more
> that Iranians, I would think. pms
>
> -----------
>
> If I had to guess, it is just a matter that the US
> probably produces
> more chicken than we can possibly consume, so
> technically the cost to
> ship the excess could be seen as income, in some
> twisted neoliberal
> accounting, since it keeps prices from crashing
> here.
>
> Nevermind we could probably feed, cloth and house
> every poor person in
> the US for free---we could do that, but it wouldn't
> be right.
>
> Chuck Grimes
>

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