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21/12/2004: "Free Lone Ranger ..........what food that food was fed?"
Henry and Trish Jones decided to roast one of their free range chooks from their property near Pambula NSW.
"Compared with the BBQ chooks from the store, our's was almost tasteless", said Henry.
So what is going into the farmed chook feed these days? Lots of things. Something goes into the water supply too. (Water can be changed faster when an inspection tip-off is received).
People who work on chicken farms don't talk too much to the media. Privately, these workers are appalled I was told by a couple I met travelling in the far north west of Western Australia at Broome.
"Our son works on a chicken farm. He can't understand why the governments don't do something about what is happening".
In Cairns, diver and renowned fisherman Albie Ziebell believed the local farmed chickens were being fed reef fish that was not allowable for human consumption, fish Albie thought loaded with ciguaterra toxins - which is both colourless, and odorless.
He believed this because he was sensitive to ciguaterra poisoning, and eating local chicken brought on the same symptoms he was avoiding in reef fish! A good example of how the food chain works.
So we need to not only question what we eat, but what food that food was fed. Understand?
But everyone is too busy to bother, and it all gets worse.
