Tyson food myths/facts

I have heard several scary things about Tyson food corp., and I was planning on doing a pwrpnt presentation on it, but I’ve been unable to find much information on the internet. What have you heard about Tyson, and do you know any sites w/ info I could use? Thanks!
Didn’t know if this belonged in ?'s or here, so oh well.

Human ears are not good to bite and chew.

Like you weren’t thinking it!

I’ve removed the one you posted in GQ, as any answers will most likely be opinion.

Try Googling “tyson foods”. There are plenty of websites detailing scary things about Tyson.

Tyson is a huge meat processor and the process of turning cute chickens and cows into tasty McNuggets and hamburgers at a competitive price is not generally a pleasant process from an aesthetic perspective, and there’s no doubt that many a chicken has been drop kicked, and cow mistreated in that industrial process. Tyson has to meet government inspection specifications re the quality of the product and accuracy of it’s grading.

Animal right organizations are sometimes quite accurate in their claims about the mistreatment of animals, and on other occasions they pull wild assed claims out of their rear ends, and perpetuate urban legends and myths about the foul deeds of food processors.

I heard once that Tyson was legally restrained from calling their product chicken because the meat was genetically altered or some such rubbish. I countered the claim using a Tyson box with the word chicken repeated sixty million times on all sides.

I thought that was why KFC is no longer Kentucky Fried Chicken?
Yes, I know that’s an urban legend.

I dunno about how nice or mean they are to their animals, but every time I’ve bought a package of Tyson brand chicken, it had something wrong with it - one time, I bought one and the meat looked fine on the outside, and was ROTTING on the inside. So I never buy Tyson anymore.

~Tasha

How does Tyson make that tubular chicken-like substance? Is it chemically produced? Also does Tyson produce ‘batch’ chicken?

If you google, you can find a lot of stuff like this out there. You might consider the source, and the date of the articles, but there is a lot out there on them.

http://direland.typepad.com/direland/2005/12/tyson_foods_sel.html

http://www.commondreams.org/pressreleases/feb99/021599a.htm

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=14399

I think Tyson got it’s start by the odd feed it used.
There were no brand names for chickens when they started, and they wanted a way to differentiate the brand.
So they fed their chickens something to make the skin more tanned than other brands.
I think it might have been safron or some such yellow seasoning. They were fed that a couple days before market and the color went right into the meat.