CHICKEN is lean, versatile and supposedly healthy.
But as a result of changing practices in poultry farming, the white meat may not be as good for us as it once was.
Compassion in World Farming, a US-based charity who aim to “end factory farming”, has released a video on YouTube aiming to educate the public about ‘white stripes’ in raw chicken.
These strands of fat appear due to the conditions the birds are kept in and develop in factory farms.
Traditionally, chicken breasts are plump, tender, and have a small amount of fat running along the sides.
The striping is down to the way chickens are raised in intensive farming.
Farmers have to produce the birds on a mass scale, so they do everything to make their animals grow bigger, and more quickly – and chickens are fattier as a result.
A 2016 study by the University of Arkansas and Texas A&M concluded that “the severity of white striping has increased in recent years.”
Scientists found white striping present in 96 per cent of the 285 birds they tested.
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This white striping also “negatively impacts meat quality,” according to researchers, as it isn’t as tender and doesn’t absorb marinades as well.
The study took place in America where farming standards are not as high as in the UK – but it can happen here, too.
But white striping doesn’t completely ruin the meat. The chicken is still full of protein and will fill you up.
Jaclyn London, R.D., Nutrition Director at the Good Housekeeping Institute, said: “Chicken – so long as it’s not breaded and deep-fried – is a great source of lean protein (that also happens to be rich in B-vitamins, iron and vitamin B12).”
Also, a spokesman for the National Chicken Council told BuzzFeed that white striping only affects a “small percentage of chicken meat” and “does not create any health or food safety concerns for people and the welfare of the chicken itself is not negatively impacted.”
Compassion in World Farming was founded in 1967 by a British farmer who became horrified by the development of modern, intensive factory farming.
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