Green chicken?

[AustinTink]

Boiled up some chicken today to make soup. Imagine my surprise when I pulled this green piece out of the stockpot. This is a new one for me. Anyone seen this before? I already sent this picture to the grocery store.

 

[Mysterian]

Nasty! I googled:

"It's called deep pectoral myopathy or "green muscle disease", and it's a problem with heavy breasted poultry. The vessels are unable to supply enough blood to the muscle, with the result of death of the muscles affected. It's not detectable until the chicken is cut open. By the time you see the green colour, muscle death occurred a couple of weeks prior and fibrous woody tissue has developed. Since breeding practices for roaster chickens and turkeys often favor heavy-breasted poultry, this is likely to be found more often until that changes.

There is no odour or bacterial growth with this, and the meat itself is safe to eat, though no one would eat the green part."

 

[AustinTink]

Nasty! I googled:

"It's called deep pectoral myopathy or "green muscle disease", and it's a problem with heavy breasted poultry. The vessels are unable to supply enough blood to the muscle, with the result of death of the muscles affected. It's not detectable until the chicken is cut open. By the time you see the green colour, muscle death occurred a couple of weeks prior and fibrous woody tissue has developed. Since breeding practices for roaster chickens and turkeys often favor heavy-breasted poultry, this is likely to be found more often until that changes.

There is no odour or bacterial growth with this, and the meat itself is safe to eat, though no one would eat the green part."

I guess with chickens being bred bigger and bigger, we will see this more? So gross. I threw it away.

 

[leebee]

I'm sorry- that's gross. I would have thrown it out, too.

 

[fly girl]

Ewww ... that would have been tossed out immediately. New one for me. Yuck!

 

[kdonnel]

Probably the hen that laid the original Green Eggs and Ham.

 

[LuvOrlando]

Poor chicken, the store manager would get a photo and an angry call, would totally be in the hot seat about purchasing. Stores don't want customers to get that and complaints might force the industry to behave better.

 

[PollyannaMom]

ewwww, just ewwww

 

[mousefan73]

Welcome to what happens to our food products ( meat) are bred to meet consumer demand and the current meat industry looking at fast profits. Faster, cheaper, plumper growing poultry. If the consumer actually saw what natural fed, organic and happy chicken meat looked like, they wouldnt want it. They want oversized and sterile white meat. (bleached with clorine for good measure)

 

[Mysterian]

I guess with chickens being bred bigger and bigger, we will see this more? So gross. I threw it away.

I wasn't surprised to read that the green part will "not taste good" at all. NEWS AT ELEVEN.

 

[kymom99]

 

[Jangles]

It is quite common in battery chickens, because the cages are so small that they can’t move and muscle dies due to lack of blood circulation.

 

[AppleDumpling]

OMG, how unappetizing. I’ve never seen that before. Hope the store is giving you a refund or credit.

 

[kdonnel]

Todays broilers are 4x larger than the ones raised in the 50s.

People like their chicken breast big and they like it cheap.

Selective breading started in 1948 has created the monster broilers of today.

Gainesville GA is the self proclaimed poultry capital of the world and has erected a chicken statue in their honor.



Next week UGA is hosting the Georgia Broiler Conference if anyone wants to go and complain.

https://poultry.caes.uga.edu/conten.../documents/events/2022-Broiler-Conf-Flyer.pdf

 

[AustinTink]

OMG, how unappetizing. I’ve never seen that before. Hope the store is giving you a refund or credit.

They are pretty good about refunds so I'm sure I will an email response soon.

 

[mrodgers]

Welcome to what happens to our food products ( meat) are bred to meet consumer demand and the current meat industry looking at fast profits. Faster, cheaper, plumper growing poultry. If the consumer actually saw what natural fed, organic and happy chicken meat looked like, they wouldnt want it. They want oversized and sterile white meat. (bleached with clorine for good measure)

Indeed. I choke the garbage down at my mother's because she buys everything the cheapest she can. It would be quite a shock to go from 2 breasts feeding a family to cooking 6 breasts for the same family of good chicken. Nothing like a big chunk of tasteless rubber they call chicken breast with the Purdue and Tyson garbage. Yum...

 

[AustinTink]

Indeed. I choke the garbage down at my mother's because she buys everything the cheapest she can. It would be quite a shock to go from 2 breasts feeding a family to cooking 6 breasts for the same family of good chicken. Nothing like a big chunk of tasteless rubber they call chicken breast with the Purdue and Tyson garbage. Yum...

I'm definitely only buying chicken at Whole Foods or Sprouts from now.

 

[AustinTink]

Lol. Deleting a post that was meant for the Dancing with the Stars thread. Oops.

 

[Kimkimba]

Makes me glad I’m a vegetarian.

 

[mousefan73]

I notice how chicked tastes fake and gross whenever I go back home to the US.. I just googled and read that the clorine rinse that almost all chicken gets in the US has been banned in the EU since 1997. Chicken though costs almost the same as steak here, but I am willing to pay more or eat less.