GanjaChicken - A healthier alternative?

[igor_kavinski]

A farm feeding chickens with marijuana instead of antibiotics is fetching higher prices from consumers seeking organic poultry, researchers say

Researchers say the birds have been kept alive and healthy without antibiotics or medicines — and taste better too.

www.insider.com

No harm since the cannabis is completely metabolized in the animal's body. This does raise a question: if it's so good for them, 0.4% THC should be good for us too, no?

 

[Torn Mind]

Any more traditional, less than "modern American" farming tehcniques of chicken farming will produce superior tasting chicken meat. Back in the 1950s China, my mom's extended family had a nice well-off parcel in the city of Shanghai. They had their own chickens. Later, the commies would change the laws and eliminate holding the livestock, so the chickens had to be killed.

My mom ate some Safeway chicken I bought a couple days ago and she said it tasted horrible.

Then after that, the land would be seized and carved up such that only on apartment out of the whole complex would be reserved for the family.

 

[mindless1]

Umm, WHUT?

Researchers from Chiang Mai University's Department of Animal and Aquatic Sciences said fewer than 10% of the 1,000 chickens at the farm in Lampang have died since they introduced marijuana to the chickens' diet in January 2021.

While the study's findings are still under review and only cover one year's worth of research, Chompunut Lumsangkul — an assistant professor who led the study — told Insider that the cannabis feed appears to be working. The mortality rate for the chickens at the farm has been the same as in regular seasons when there isn't a severe outbreak of any bird-killing disease, she said.

SO, if they don't have a disease outbreak, it makes no difference. Science for the win!!!!!

Plus, I don't know squat about raising chickens, but if I'd been doing it for years, I'd sure as heck have less than a 10% death rate at a mere 1K sized population which is pretty small.

I suspect someone has hijacked igor_kavinski's account, but I can't figure out the motive yet.

 

[igor_kavinski]

The point is, they don't need to pump the chickens with anti-biotics that would end up harming the people consuming the chicken meat.

 

[DAPUNISHER]

This does raise a question: if it's so good for them, 0.4% THC should be good for us too, no?

What is the average natural lifespan of a chicken? And how closely do their biological processes mirror our own? Not makin an argument against weed, mind you. Extrapolating the effects on chickens with those on humans is quite a stretch though.

 

[igor_kavinski]

Extrapolating the effects on chickens with those on humans is quite a stretch though.

It was just a thought. We would obviously need a large scale study to reach a definitive conclusion and I would wager that such a study isn't taking place in the western world.