Farmed chickens taste better than free-range, say scientists
Published: July 10, 2008
Summary
It will undoubtedly ruffle a few feathers among campaigning celebrity chefs. Scientists claim that organic chickens do not taste as good as battery-farmed birds. Their study, involving a blind taste-test, found that the battery birds had a superior flavour and texture and were more juicy. The results will upset the organic farming industry, which claims that the better welfare their birds en...
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11 de julio de 2008
Chickens produced in battery cages are tastier than reared on free range system...
Dr. Nirmal Sharma (Phoenix Group, Gujarat)
11 de julio de 2008
1) Free range are not the same as organic.
2) Older broilers are different, considering usual parameters of meat quality aspects, when compared with 42 days old broilers.
3) Quality still is influenced by the way the hen is cooked!!!!(But I don't have data about this).
3) It is a fact that high percentage of people around the world prefer and need to consume more healthier chicken meat (no drug residues inside) in aim to reach a century years old.
4) Well understood: Last month Organic Chickens weren´t environmental friendly and this month they have a poorer taste.
5) All this may be true but depends on the parameters you choose to evaluate and compare conventional and organic broilers.
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