My daughter has a 60 acre farm and she has Hens , Rooster , Ducks and they are free range. She buys baby chicks and has ample space for them to grow and her feed for them is organic . Her husband gets honey with his bees. Thank you for this video as you were great educating others!😎🐥🐓
A lot of people don’t understand that chickens are actually carnivores. I raise chickens on my land and they are supposed to be eating worms and bugs and stuff not a vegan diet. They occasionally will kill mice as well.
Do it when you can, that's deffinetly better than not :) I'm new to all this, still struggling to always get hold of quality stuff tbh.. getting there 💪 Plus we are UK & the are shops are inferior.
All we can do is our best at any given moment with what information and means we have. We keep an eye on sales (stores sometimes will have sales on the air chilled chicken and grass-fed beef, too) and buy an extra two to portion out and freeze. We also STRETCH the meat for our family of four my using it in stews, pasta dishes, or as portioned toppings on mostly veggie or rice dishes. After meal planning and checking the grocery store sales online, we go to the grocery store with our list and stay out of the center aisles as much as possible, which saves A TON of money, too. Hope these ideas can be helpful for families on a budget. ❤
stop making excuses, either earn more, stop wasting money on crap or save. Food should be in the top 3 priories and you are saying you can't afford to buy the food as humans we are supposed to eat. Makes me sad to think you are giving up this easily instead of thinking about solutions to the problem. Sell that tv or gaming console, life is not about pleasure but about experiences which is what good food enhances. Life's not worth living when you can live truthfully and provide your body with the correct intended fuel that it is supposed to have instead of consuming synthetic stuff. Rationale thinkers will be more conscious of their body as it is linked to the mind and vise versa, right now you are heavily clouded by misconception and poor judgement. Irrationality and pleasure are controlling and clouding you from seeking and attaining the truth and ultimately gaining enlightenment. Hope this helps you
Thank you guys! You have really changed the way I see food and my preferences when going grocery shopping. I changed to pasture raised eggs since your video about eggs. What i love the most is knowing WHY i am choosing the products I choose, knowing that the labels mean! Keep it up!!!
Don't pay full price for the expensive eggs if the shelf life is less than a week. -dairy departments are supposed to mark them down which helps if you eat them soon, or boil them
@@BobbyParrish Same! Even if I can't afford pasture raised chicken or free-range eggs that week, I still look for the next best option based on what I've learned watching these vids! Anytime I see any Vital Farms eggs or butter go on sale I jump on it lol
@@bravobear1844 so did you actually kill your chicken because of the opinions of some stranger on the internet? Please tell me life has more meaning to you than that.
Thank you for putting the antibiotic and cage free marketing scheme out there. Coming from an agriculture background. It is so frustrating that these companies are making money off people that have less knowledge of the industry in that way.
TONS of antibiotics are used in CAFOs including chicken ones. What they dont use in chickens is HORMONES because it’s illegal and also unneeded because broiler chickens in CAFOs were selectively bred to grow to ridiculous sizes in only 2.5months without the need of hormones.
Bobby & Paul, this was so informative! I've been very guilty of just buying whatever was the best price, and honestly, I feel ashamed. I'll definitely be paying more attention to my purchases, thanks to you guys!
Gotta say I was impressed with some of the information you gave! I come from a livestock background and my fiance is a poultry scientist, so I know way too much about chickens. Thank you for talking about hormones and cage-free labels when it comes to market poultry, I know that this confuses a lot of people. In my opinion the organic label is a bit of a marketing gimmick with poultry. If you read the USDA guidelines, they do say that you have to give the poultry (weather and health permitting) access to the outdoors. However, they do not specify the amount of outdoor space they must have. This means that you can have a small outdoor space that can only accommodate a few chickens and still be considered organic since you meet all of the other qualifications.
“A bit”? My understanding is that ‘big organic’ keeps the chicks inside until they learn to stay inside, THEN they are given a small door opening to a very small space. They have “access”, but would never go out because of conditioning.
Haven’t seen that yet at Aldi either. I’ll have to check it out next time I’m there. I always save so much at Aldi then Wegmans. But I usually find Wegmans has fresher meat options. Though I will say Aldi has amazing gold star smoked salmon that is also affordable and delicious for lox bagels.
I'm moving back to the US and this is very useful. It's very overwhelming when you go to the store for the first time and you don't know anything about the different brands.
you are correct. I worked for a chicken plant and my job was the chiller operator. After the chickens are slaughtered ,defeathered and degutted they left the hot side and came to me which was the cold part. I was responsible for keeping the chillers filled with the correct amount of water and chemicals. when they tested the birds for temp and moisture once it exited the chillers and it didn't gain the amount of moisture they wanted to make the birds look bigger then I would get in trouble.
Thanks Bobby & Paul! Wonderful information! I used to raise chickens. No matter how clean you keep their coop you can’t stop them from eating their poop! LOL, but yes, very important to buy healthier chickens from places that actually try to keep their living area clean.
Mine were always hungry & I fed them grains twice a day & food scraps once a day. That’s 3 meals. They are also carnivorous so if one is injured you must put it in a cage so has time to heal or the other chickens will peck it to death. They have quite the personality & followed me around. I do miss my them.
I have tried ‘Katie’s Best’ air-chilled (organic version also) from Meijer. Tastes better than all others. The issue with Walmart organic and most other organic ones are that they are still water chilled.
Bobby, we love your channel! Thanks for showing us how to make healthier food choices, which encompass more humane and environmentally-sound farming practices. We look forward to your upcoming show on beef. Please also consider adding shows on healthier and humanely-raised pork and fish.
The RU-vid algo brought me here. Wasn’t expecting much... But actually very informative and well put together without the fluff and filler. Good job guys.
Your videos like this are incredibly informative and MUCH appreciated. Would love if you could break down more categories, i.e beef, bacon, sandwich meats etc. Thank you FlavCity! :)
Thank you so much for these videos! You break it down to easily understand the WHY behind buying better foods etc. I have totally changed the way I buy things (cost is still a factor but I am trying as much as possible) and each one of these videos continues help so much so thank you! Keep these coming!
This video came at the perfect time! I just went grocery shopping this past week and I was buying chicken and I kept going back and forth between this more expensive air chilled, better diet chicken thighs, and the cheaper chicken thighs that didn’t say anything about the chicken feed or if it was air chilled. I was stuck also because I am a student and so I can’t afford to buy organic or the highest quality all the time, so I ended up having to compromise and buy one pack of the air chilled better quality chicken thighs and one back of the cheaper brand of chicken thighs. I wish I could afford to buy only the best quality produce that is better for the animals, but I try to make the most mindful choices on what I buy when I can afford to. Either way I am still really glad to have watched your video and to know now what to keep an eye out for so that in the future I can choose the better option or I at least know what the better option is.
The main problem is pure and simple. $5 for 5 drumsticks or $7 for 16 drumsticks. Having a 6 member household, $15 - $20 for 1 item on the table ( not including the veggies --which have the same problem with pricing--or rice that go on as a side ) and now multiply that to last until the following payday, just isn't realistic. That is ultimately where the marketing hook exists. They want you to eat healthy but make it affordable to only a few and that is the major problem in the U.S. why more people aren't eating as healthy as they should. Not because they don't want to, but they can't afford to 9 times out of 10.
You could also consider not buying these things at all and replacing them with other protein sources that don't involve meat. There's really no excuse.
@@whywhy7299 I'm not vegan. I eat meat almost daily. I don't recall mentioning that I was vegan. You must have misread. Please share some of the excuses with me that people could have for eating low quality meats. I'd love to hear your thoughts as opposed to mindless statements with no facts to back them up. Thanks!
Seriously thank you. Trying to educate myself about nutrition after a lifetime of a “food is food” mindset in order to help an ailing relative & myself while I’m at it. Keep it up please.👍
@@BobbyParrish MILK! Especially great since you're going to be a parent soon and I just transitioned my baby to whole milk at 1yr of age (as recc) and was so torn as to which milk to buy.
Buy raw milk from your local farmer done. Pasturized dairy is useless and has virtually no nuttition and hard to digest. Buying from your local farmer is cheaper and better chance of being high quality.
Thankyou,thankyou, thankyou so much, I love that you gave brand names to buy from several different grocery stores,I hope you have one on beef, I gotta search ❤️❤️❤️
Thank you for reminding us of all the green washing labels. You are awesome! Here is a plug for pasture raised meat in Georgia: White Oak Pastures. They will ship.
Buy more healthful meat which are indeed more expensive, but, use it more as accompaniment rather than the main show. Just get enough to get fat and proteins from it. Afterall, what the animals eat is what we eat.
@David Bowman Put down the chips and soda and buy grass fed beef instead for the same money. I bet you make room for that stuff in your budget. A big bag of broccoli and grass fed beef can go for 3 meals for 2 easy. 10$.
If that's the case then you're better off and should be able to afford organic rice and beans. Otherwise, you risk poor health/cancer with all that low quality meat.
Fantastic video Bobby. You are addressing exactly what we need to know as consumers! For an idea, would you cover what they call the dirty dozen? The foods that you should definitely buy the organic version of? I would love to hear your take. I SO look forward to these types of videos. I learn important stuff EVERY TIME. Even if I know something about the subject. #perfection
Wow that’s a Lesson learn thank you guys so much I am in a Low income budget senior citizen so I was buying the wrong ones even ought it was cheaper it was doing me no good with my health and I thank you both for that I’m keeping your Channel as long I’m still alive this is very helpful for me and my autistic son which also have health problems and needs to eat healthier thanks you you I bought your book to I can learn how to cook different meals I am 67 and all I know how to cook is Spanish meals because I am from Puerto Rico is hard because I was so use to eating the Spanish means so glad that you are doing this not only for me but you are showing the world how to cook healthy and stay away from medication and hospitals this is what this world needed I just don’t understand why these stores keep selling things that will kill people later on is very hard for seniors that lives by themselves and don’t know how to cook or have the Energy to do it glad that I still have the strength to keep going on strong 💪 with all your meals I thank you again and may God bless you and your family and friends that’s helping people to eat healthier 🥰🥰🥰🥰🙏
Man, does this make me feel like going vegetarian or back to farming. In ILLINOIS and being a senior, you cannot afford high quality good food. Gotta move.
I raised chickens for my 4-H club *twenty years ago* and one year we raised "broiler meat chickens" to learn about the breed. It was a sad lesson because even that 20 years ago the birds were HUGE and couldn't walk more than a couple feet when they were just a few months old. We couldn't keep them as pets and they had to be slaughtered because to let them live would be a torturous life - the older they got, the harder it became for them to survive. Even breathing became labored. Factory farming really is the most disgusting thing we are doing to animals, selective breeding of monster breeds that can only live to die? This is terrible. Buy from local farmers, or hunt your own food.
It’s crazy how we are funding so much animal abuse just by just buying meat! It’s absolutely disgusting how some people don’t even CARE about animals, and their feelings they just see them as just some little product to the point that they make the chicken have to work so hard to just breathe! And all for money Lives no matter animal or human is way more important than money. There are COUNTLESS ways to make money that don’t involve making thousands if not MILLONS of lives absolutely torture. People are disgusting sometimes.
Thanks Bobby for all your videos you have changed my world I've already lost 10 lb thank you so much for your wonderful knowledge and for your videos I love them
Nostalgic Bliss Man don’t listen to him, there are plenty of body builders who achieve great physiques eating chicken. Do yourself a favor and do some research before believing some crazy claim in the internet.
Correct me if I am wrong but they found a loophole with organic. If it doesn’t state 100% organic they can still use the organic seal as long as it has a minimal amount of organic within.
I’m so thankful for this information you are putting out there. I only buy organic chicken after I watched the movie food inc years and years ago. This video reminded me today how bad the industry is relating this!! So gross. Love your channel!!! Subscribed!
Me too! As much as I would love to buy organic, my family needs to buy cheap stuff. However that is not an excuse that we can all still live a healthy lifestyle.
@@MarkZimmerman this guy's an idiot, eating healthy isn't about spending the most, and only organic, and non gmo is stupid. Everything is gmo and eating more vegetables and fruits is better for you even if it isn't "organic". The benefits of organic are so minimal; if you're already eating plenty of vegetables and fruits.
I just started buying pasteurized eggs after seeing that video by Bobby. This one popped up and am I happy to see it. I have been going crazy with chicken smelling the next day in a terrible way...even poached was crappy the next day. I've stopped buying chicken for salads and pallard dishes 'cuz I don't want to eat it anymore it's so off putting. I tried feeding my dog the leftovers and she won't even eat it. It should be a crime how these chickens are lawfully raised.
Dude, I learn a lot from your videos. You're like me, I read labels and don't buy products with red, blue dyes, sodium nitrate, or any un-natural preservatives.
I had been buying those rotissere chickens at the deli, but no more after knowing they arent good chickens! I'll miss them tho, because they are so tender& taste so good,but don;t mind giving up anything thats not quality!
I agree. Thanks for the good info. But I believe that's it's no longer true that they "can't support their weight." I understand that they had that problem for a few years around 2008-2011 and then they bred out those Genes.
I am continually scared by the American food industry. In Europe organic means: no GMO, free range pasture raised an air cooled and antibiotic free. The standard bird can be natural marinated which means that the breat can be pumped with up to 12% saline solution. Thus making them seem bigger at a higher price per pound.
'antibiotic free' that is not true at all and farmers in Europe actually use antibiotics more than american farmers. Also there is nothing wrong with gmo
Great video ! Chicken is essential for me on a daily basis and always needed a video like this to see what are the pros and cons of each sort of chicken !!
This is really good to know. I recently have been trying to slowly convert to better foods for my son and I. I wish I could completely jump over, but financially, I have to pick and chose.
I used to be a strong believer of what suggested here, only purchasing organic pasteurized chicken and eggs and thought the other generic ones were garbage. But when I started working out and needed lots of protein from these chicken breasts, I realized it is not even possible to eat in this way. Then I tried exactly the same chicken breast that you thought is "bad", and frankly speaking I found it has no "BIG" difference from the $5.99/lb organic chicken breast I purchased from Costco, and this one only cost $1.29/lb. Yes, you may think nutrition wise they have big difference, but not so big to consider about the macros like protein and fat. If you know how to prepare, season and cook, they taste really tender, delicious and wonderful. After having 8 big packs of these chickens within two weeks, I would say I will never buy these "organic" highly priced chicken again!!! With the same budget, you can buy 5 or 6 times more meat!!! This is a huge difference. These "organic" chicken is just like a placebo to make you "feel" better, and that is it. If you didn't follow good diet and eat them in a unrestricted way, none of these organic food can make you healthy.
But organic chicken taste better tho, versus No name brand chicken that's not tender etc it's a struggle to afford organic but I been hanging in there really don't want to switch from the free range lable
I have not eaten anything but organic chicken for years.....both because of how I care how the chickens are raised and how healthy for me the ingredients in what chicken is fed
Thank you thank you. I thought I was doing good by buying free range and cage free eggs and chicken, now I know it’s all marketing.. I just discovered you today and subscribed. Have you considered a book with all these helpful tips. A lot of people are being fooled..now I need one for seafood and beef..
We don't have a book specifically for food purchasing tips and info, BUUUUUT we do have our first cookbook that comes out this month. You can pre-order it here: amzn.to/2TOHWJL
I came on to RU-vid because I just went to Trader Joes yesterday, and realized I bought "Chicken Breast with rib Meat" and had no idea what that meant. So glad I came across this video, I'm definitely going back to return or exchange
These practical vids are awesome. Stuff that usually gets skipped or afraid to ask thinking it's too basic. Which it isn't, imho. It takes experience to know this! Thank you!
Yup! And that’s why eggs from chickens who live out in a grove or pasture taste amazing. Those bugs they eat really make a difference. The yolks are dark amber and sooo delicious.
What about Organic Smart Chicken? It is not pasture raised but it has passed requirements from Certified Humane. Might be a good compromise for some people. To find it, go to the Certified Humane website “Where to Buy” section and plug in your zip code. Certified Humane does not allow beak trimming. The rules say they’re supposed to have enough room to stretch their wings.
Thank you so much for your videos it took me so long to realize your channel is so informative, already change my cooking oil and my pantry has been completely renewed, I can't wait to get your book, thanks again for changing people's life's. Blessing to you and your family.
Thank you for the information. Makes sense. The only question is who is really keeping track if the organic and non organic chickens are getting mixed up?
Hi Bobby, thanks for the info! I fear I've been failing with chicken all these years😱😰. And I even did a big chicken haul last night and bought some on sale. But I'll be writing down these tips and shopping with these the next time I buy chicken. And Paul had some great insights too.
The 100 percent vegetarian feed on the chicken label isn't a good thing haha. Chickens are omnivores with a preference for bugs, and small reptiles and vermin. They r little dinosaurs by nature
Fun biology fact, all birds are like "little dinosaurs". Infact all birds are the descendants of dinosaurs when you study their genes, it's intriguing!
Yeah, I watched documentaries that said birds and chickens were the closest relatives to dinosaurs. Dinosaurs had feathers just like chicken and some of their anatomy was very similar too. Its crazy how dinosaurs looked like reptiles but in today's form they're birds
For some reason RU-vid recommend me one of your videos and now I am here taking noted everything you said on every videos. I always thought America have the best quality food ever but I guess you have to do your homework before go to the grocerry. Thanks for giving away free knowledge!
The "cheap chicken" at Walmart/Neighborhood Markets (which is where he is) comes from Tyson Farms. It's the exact same, but the factory doesn't process it as much i.e. less trimming, etc
