# Tyson food myths/facts **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 23, 2007, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tyson-food-myths-facts/389132 "2007-01-23T18:55:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![defaultusername](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e57/32.png) [@defaultusername](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/defaultusername)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2007, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tyson-food-myths-facts/389132/1 "2007-01-23T18:55:55Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2007, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tyson-food-myths-facts/389132/2 "2007-01-23T19:06:00Z")
Human ears are not good to bite and chew. Like you weren’t thinking it! ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2007, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tyson-food-myths-facts/389132/3 "2007-01-23T19:38:32Z")
[QUOTE=defaultusername] Didn’t know if this belonged in ?'s or here, so oh well. [/QUOTE] I’ve removed the one you posted in GQ, as any answers will most likely be opinion. ---
**Author:** ![Uvula\_Donor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e19adc/32.png) [@Uvula\_Donor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uvula_Donor)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2007, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tyson-food-myths-facts/389132/4 "2007-01-23T19:45:32Z")
[QUOTE=defaultusername] 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. [/QUOTE] Try Googling “tyson foods”. There are plenty of websites detailing scary things about Tyson. ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2007, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tyson-food-myths-facts/389132/5 "2007-01-23T20:11:21Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2007, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tyson-food-myths-facts/389132/6 "2007-01-24T02:34:27Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Canadjun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/76d3ee/32.png) [@Canadjun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Canadjun)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2007, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tyson-food-myths-facts/389132/7 "2007-01-24T13:59:41Z")
[QUOTE=Kat] 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. [/QUOTE] I thought that was why KFC is no longer Kentucky Fried Chicken? Yes, I know that’s an urban legend. ---
**Author:** ![tashabot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tashabot/32/6250_2.png) [@tashabot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tashabot)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2007, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tyson-food-myths-facts/389132/8 "2007-01-24T18:23:04Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![ralph124c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2007, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tyson-food-myths-facts/389132/9 "2007-01-24T18:50:44Z")
How does Tyson make that tubular chicken-like substance? Is it chemically produced? Also does Tyson produce ‘batch’ chicken? ---
**Author:** ![Grits\_and\_Hard\_Toast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a183cd/32.png) [@Grits\_and\_Hard\_Toast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grits_and_Hard_Toast)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2007, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tyson-food-myths-facts/389132/10 "2007-01-24T20:27:52Z")
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://direland.typepad.com/direland/2005/12/tyson_foods_sel.html) [http://www.commondreams.org/pressreleases/feb99/021599a.htm](http://www.commondreams.org/pressreleases/feb99/021599a.htm) > **[Opinionet.com may be for sale - PerfectDomain.com](https://perfectdomain.com/domain/opinionet.com)** > > Checkout the full domain details of Opinionet.com. Click Buy Now to instantly start the transaction or Make an offer to the seller! [http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE\_ID=14399](http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=14399) ---
**Author:** ![Molly\_Polly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ea5d25/32.png) [@Molly\_Polly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Molly_Polly)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2007, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tyson-food-myths-facts/389132/11 "2007-01-24T22:32:34Z")
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.