"Burger King is introducing nine new breakfast items including blueberry biscuits and pancake platters and planning a major breakfast marketing blitz — all with an eye toward eating up some of McDonald’s morning business....
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I usually skip breakfast and just have a coffee.
That's how I came across this pile of chicken s***.
"Bringing the barnyard to the backyard; Egg safety worries, taste preference driving more in Mass. to raise chickens" by Peter Schworm and Sydney Lupkin, Globe Staff | Globe Correspondent | September 8, 2010
They lose sleep to crack-of-dawn cackles. They catch grief from neighbors who assumed the block was a chicken-free zone.
I'm up before 'em, but....
But with a large recall of potentially tainted eggs raising concerns about food-borne illness, the growing number of people who raise their own chickens believe they are sitting pretty, with a steady supply of homegrown eggs they contend are safer, tastier, and more natural than their factory-farm counterparts.
Related: Increasing Government Raids on Farmers and Private Food Coops
Also see: FDA Raids Organic Store with Guns Drawn
One does wonder why those things remain unmentioned in this puff piece promotion I actually agree with for a change.
“There’s something very wonderful and earthy about picking up a warm egg and going inside and cooking it for breakfast,’’ said Debbie Lewis of Brookline, who owns a flock of chickens. And homegrown eggs have far more flavor than their commercial cousins, she said.
Well, that just made them less appetizing.
For those who swear by farm-fresh food, last month’s national recall confirms their fears about the safety of mass-produced agriculture, and raises questions about the treatment of the animals involved.
So what is next, the farm stand down the street because they won't GMO their crops?
When do the fascistas goose-step into the garden?
Those worries, along with a back-to-basics ethos that has taken hold in recent years, are prompting Massachusetts residents to raise chickens themselves, even in thickly settled suburbs.
“It’s a little way for people to have a little control over what they eat,’’ said Carolyn Plourde, who has eight chickens in her Lexington backyard.
Because the GOVERNMENT has FAILED to PROTECT YOUR FOOD SUPPLY, Americans!
And they have you aaaaallllll gussied up on "terrorists" and Muslims and mosques!!
PFFFFFT!
She says the eggs taste better, and chalks up the difference to the chickens’ cage-free lifestyle.
“When they’re out free-ranging, they’re getting insects, getting all different seeds and weeds,’’ she said. “You are what you eat.’’
And you think what you read, pfffft!
Maybe you would rather order a pizza, readers?
Maybe not. Call it in for pick-up instead.
Related: Boston Globe Omelet
No thanks, Globe; I don't eat eggs.
And bathing the chicken in chlorine isn't helping either?
Time to get to school, kiddo.
How about watching where you are going?
Would that help?
What do you mean the stomach pains makes it hard?
