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Find a local butcher that works with local farmers and ranchers. That is the best thing you can do not just for your wallet but also for your health.

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>A man who bought chicken breasts from three different stores was shocked to learn how different they were. Kalani Smith, who's known as Kalani Ghost Hunter on social media, posted a TikTok video on May 21 of him comparing chicken breast he bought at Walmart, Perdue and from his local butcher in Tennessee. The ghost hunter picked up each of the unopened packages of standard chicken breast from each store and showing the scales he would use to weigh them.

Find a local butcher that works with local farmers and ranchers. That is the best thing you can do not just for your wallet but also for your health. Archive: https://archive.today/yeGPO From the post: >>A man who bought chicken breasts from three different stores was shocked to learn how different they were. Kalani Smith, who's known as Kalani Ghost Hunter on social media, posted a TikTok video on May 21 of him comparing chicken breast he bought at Walmart, Perdue and from his local butcher in Tennessee. The ghost hunter picked up each of the unopened packages of standard chicken breast from each store and showing the scales he would use to weigh them.

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[–] • 4 pts

Family back home runs a farm - can explain this a bit:

  • There is extra water in factory chicken. As they mass kill and clean chickens they're dunked and soaked in a big vats of water in the process. They absorb water in the process. It's supposed to be limited to a certain percentage of the chicken's body weight so you aren't being sold water that will drip away. It's pretty hard to audit that though, so the numbers are basically fake. Your local chicken farmer probably doesn't use the same mechanized process and you get all meat no water (beyond natural).

  • The factory farm force feeds. Your local farmer may or may not. You get more water weight from this too. It's not exactly apples to apples, but consider the amount of water weight you retain if you eat a bunch of junk food. Sure over time you'll put on extra real weight too, but you'll always have extra water weight. The factory chicken has overate "junk food" it's whole life.

  • The factory farm uses hormones. Your local farmer may or may not. It does give you more meat per chicken. Up to you if you're ok with added hormones, but your gonna get more meat that way.

Is one significantly healthier? Idk. But experiment sometime and eat a factory piece of chicken next to a farm fresh sometime. The taste of the latter is way better.

I'm not trying to be preachy, I buy mass produced chicken cause I don't live on the family farm, but I always appreciate the real thing when I'm there.

[–] • 1 pt

This is a great post. Thanks for the extra info.

One of the issues we have with the chicken meat from the store is that it often smells "chemical". My wife thinks it smells like bleach. We go to a local butcher that works with smaller local farms/ranchers.

I can't tell you if the meat is better for you but in my opinion it does taste better. Sometimes we end up getting stuff from the store since we did not have time to go to the butcher.

I don't know exactly what it is about it and I don't know when its "butcher" or "store" meat since my wife does most of the cooking but there is just a different taste, the store stuff just is more bland or something in a strange way. It is also very likely that is based on the breed from the farmer so this is probably a bias.

[–] [deleted] • 2 pts

I'm on my 3rd purchase from Wild Pastures meat... it's expensive, but worth it for those who can't source local farms.