Paying for water in chicken + others

KentDog · 05-16-2007, 01:05 PM

I was sent this article last week and figured it would be a good share, as most of us on this board consume a lot of chicken.

Source: Paying For Water In Your Chicken

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SPECIAL REPORT: Paying For Water In Your Chicken
By Michael Buczyner, michaelb@wagt.com

What do water and chicken have in common? You're probably paying for both of them at the grocery store and might not even know it.

Sam Drinkard is crying fowl.

"Why are we paying for water," Drinkard said.

Over packaged 'chicken' he buys at the grocery store.

"I would rather pay for something that hadn't been adulterated," Drinkard said.

The Chicken he claims is purposely pumped and packaged with water. "If you're paying 7, 8 or 9 dollars a pound for a package of meat that has water injected, then you're buying water. It's clear and simple," Drinkard said.

Armed with Sam's complaint of watered down chicken breasts, we visited several local grocery stores. We picked up four package of boneless, skinless chicken breasts. We'll show you how much chicken you're actually paying for.

We laid out all four brands; Perdue, Tyson, Springer Mountain Farms and Pilgrims Pride. We drained them, separated them and weighed them.

The heaviest offender was found in Wal-Mart's meat case. Pilgrim's Pride with nearly 11% of it's contents water. Do the math and that means we paid nearly $.60 for the water found in the packaging.

It wasn't much better amongst the three other brands we sampled. We paid $.46 for Perdue's water, $.43 for Springer Mountain Farms and the best deal on chicken water was Tyson, at only $.39.

Add all four packages up and we paid $1.88 for useless chicken water.

"The consumer need to know that you're not getting full value for your hard earned dollar. That's the whole thing in a nutshell," Drinkard said.

If you think it doesn't all add-up, think again. If you buy two packages of chicken a week for a year, you could end up paying more than $60 a year just for the water in your chicken packaging.

The alternative, look for labels on packaged chicken at the grocery store. Some companies do not pump water into their product leaving more money for you to buy those potatoes to go with your chicken!

CLICK HERE FOR DOWNLOADABLE PDF OF FINDINGS!

Story Created: Apr 30, 2007 at 3:43 PM EDT

Story Updated: Apr 30, 2007 at 6:42 PM EDT

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danzik17 · 05-16-2007, 07:06 PM

What. The Fuck.

I'm definitely paying the extra money for the locally produced higher quality chicken now. Fuck this large company sick shit.

squanto · 05-17-2007, 02:29 AM

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Originally Posted by danzik17

What. The Fuck.

I'm definitely paying the extra money for the locally produced higher quality chicken now. Fuck this large company sick shit.

I know man, water=poison. And $60 a year?1?!! I'm gonna go broke!

Smoo_lord · 05-17-2007, 09:43 AM

any way to screw another few cents x 10000 = big profits

where i am i am fucked for choice..

Inghams chicken or NOTHING

what would you choose?????

plus its fucking expensive shit here, australia and its stupid costs? someone needs to be beaten into a coma over this ...

danzik17 · 05-17-2007, 09:51 AM

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Originally Posted by squanto

I know man, water=poison. And $60 a year?1?!! I'm gonna go broke!

You didn't read the two articles at the end of his post, did you

Pepper · 05-17-2007, 10:09 AM

The Tyson chicken breast strips at BJs (Cosco/Sams) all of a sudden became very wet. I have to dry it off before I eat it.

Bastards.

DontStop · 05-17-2007, 10:21 AM

I once watched this wife swap, where the lady killed her chickens, and dint cook the meat, just ate it raw.

Real Canadian Superstore has good chicken. It's not like lillydale...so there's no hype about it, thus, less cost.

I dont understand all these brand name chickens.
aa chicken is a fucking chicken...sure they can eat bi products and GH, but when it all comes down to it...it's still JUST chicken

KentDog · 05-17-2007, 11:27 AM

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Originally Posted by Pepper

The Tyson chicken breast strips at BJs (Cosco/Sams) all of a sudden became very wet. I have to dry it off before I eat it.

Bastards.

I hate that they can get away with this.

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Originally Posted by DontStop

I dont understand all these brand name chickens.
aa chicken is a fucking chicken...sure they can eat bi products and GH, but when it all comes down to it...it's still JUST chicken

A different brand typically means it's just a different company producing/selling the product, or perhaps the same brand selling under a subsidiary to further saturate the market by creating the appearance of 'competition' or to target a different market. The reason this article may be relevant to the different brand names of chicken is because one brand (or store) may have different processes when it comes to pumping extra water into their chicken (one may pump more than the other).

05-17-2007, 10:09 AM	#6
Pepper Senior Member Elite Member Join Date: Dec 2002 Posts: 4,543	The Tyson chicken breast strips at BJs (Cosco/Sams) all of a sudden became very wet. I have to dry it off before I eat it. Bastards. My Carb Cycling Progress - you can't hide from the numbers.

05-17-2007, 10:21 AM	#7
DontStop pappy Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Edmonton Posts: 2,592 Photos: 33	I once watched this wife swap, where the lady killed her chickens, and dint cook the meat, just ate it raw. Real Canadian Superstore has good chicken. It's not like lillydale...so there's no hype about it, thus, less cost. I dont understand all these brand name chickens. aa chicken is a fucking chicken...sure they can eat bi products and GH, but when it all comes down to it...it's still JUST chicken You know, the Nazis had pieces of flair that they made the Jews wear.

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05-16-2007, 07:06 PM	#2
danzik17 Gender: MALE Elite Member Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Connecticut Posts: 3,074	What. The Fuck. I'm definitely paying the extra money for the locally produced higher quality chicken now. Fuck this large company sick shit.

05-17-2007, 09:43 AM	#4
Smoo_lord Registered User Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Darwin. Australia Posts: 240	any way to screw another few cents x 10000 = big profits where i am i am fucked for choice.. Inghams chicken or NOTHING what would you choose????? plus its fucking expensive shit here, australia and its stupid costs? someone needs to be beaten into a coma over this ...