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Why Eat Organic Chicken?  You’ll not only taste the difference, your body and family will be safer.  Arsenic is commonly used in conventional chicken feed to ward off parasites.  Arsenic?  Yes, arsenic!  Arsenic is a poison and increases our risk of cancer.  But there are other reasons to choose organic.

High Levels of Arsenic in Chicken May Require Adjustment in Consumption, Environmental Health Perspective

Eating Chicken May Boost Arsenic Exposure, USA Today

Chicken Litter Arsenic Found in Homes, Yahoo Finance

Chicken Feed Effects Questioned, DelMarva Now

Do Chicken Feed Supplements End Up in You?, Albany Georgia News

 		  
  What is Organic Chicken?
  • Chicken has always been fed only Organic Grains. (Organic Grains - nonGMO; no chemicals or pesticides were used on the farm for at least 3 years.)  Feed is checked and verified for organic standards.
  • Chicken was never given any antibiotics, hormones, or drugs.
  • Chicken was raised humanely and in a stress-free environment. 
  • Bird was free-range and had access daily to fresh air and sunshine outdoors.  Bird had room to move.  Outdoors area was clean and safe.

Organic Chicken tastes better because they are allowed room to roam (use their muscles), they eat better (you are what you eat), they generally have double the life (phew!), and they have a better life (better food, outdoors, room to move).
 

  
  Isn't "Natural" good enough?

Natural is simply a label for ANY food product which means that the product does not contain artificial flavors, colors, or preservatives and that it is minimally processed.  Virtually ALL chickens are "natural!"
 

  
  Conventional Chicken is raised in confined tight quarters.  This is an understatement - some of them are in extremely cramped, damp ammonia-accumulated and polluted environments with no natural ventilation.  They are therefore predisposed to stress and sickness which can spread quickly.  Therefore, they are treated with antibiotics regularly.  They may be fed drugs to enhance their growth as well as additives to enhance their color.  They are fed grains and soybeans that contain pesticides and are probably GMO.  They may be fed animal by-products, certainly not natural feed for chickens.  Conventional Chickens are ready to be sent to the market after only 40+ days!  This is shocking to the conscience!  (It also means their size is due to fat and they are not going to be tasty.)  Then they are processed with phosphates and possibly other chemicals and left to soak in a bath.  This allows the potential for salmonella to grow and water logs the birds making them heavier when we go to buy them.  Obviously, this in turn waters down the flavor too.  And all this ends up on our plate.

Free Range Chickens are given room to move.  The term free range only means that the birds are allowed access to the outdoors.  It doesn't mean that the area outdoors (or indoors) is particularly clean either.  They can pick up disease there.  It doesn't necessarily mean that they are not treated with antibiotics or drugs.  And it doesn't speak to the food given to the chicken.  A bird could be labeled free range and been fed anything (GMO grains, pesticide-treated grains, and even animal by products,) may have been given antibiotics or hormones, and may have access to unsanitary or unsafe living conditions. 

 
     
  Kosher Chicken can then be prepared as you normally would cook chicken if you don't keep kosher.  You can use a Kosher chicken to prepare Kosher and non-kosher meals.  Kosher Organic Chicken is just the best choice with the highest most humane standards at every stage. 

Kosher has to do with what foods may be eaten, what foods can be eaten with other food, how these foods are prepared, how the food is processed (not to include non-kosher ingredients) and manufactured (in a facility that complies with kosher dietary standards and doesn't mix meat and milk, for example) and how the animal is slaughtered - in the most humane way possible so as to cause the animal the least amount of stress.  (That stress, after all, ends up on our plates.)  Making a chicken kosher for us to purchase takes about three times as long as non-kosher.  (That's why kosher chickens are more expensive.)  During processing, chickens are soaked in a brine (salt water solution) to remove the blood and as per the laws of kashrut.  Specially trained rabbinical inspectors check every bird for signs of abnormalities or disease and will reject birds otherwise acceptable by government standards.  More then 10 million Americans keep kosher including Jews, Muslims, Seventh Day Adventists, vegetarians and people with food related allergies.  Many people perceive "kosher-certification" as a seal of purity, others purchase kosher products for religious or health reasons.

Kosher Chickens are fed only grain (never animals or animal by-products), are free range in a clean environment and are never given antibiotics, growth hormones or steroids.  However, their feed is conventional and is therefore Genetically Modified and treated with chemicals and pesticides.  Their environment can also be cleaned with chemicals.

Unlike conventional poultry farms, organic chickens live in a clean environment with natural disinfectants instead of harmful chemicals like formaldehyde.  Unlike conventional poultry farms, organic birds are raised in natural sunlight with access to the outdoors and get (one and a half times) more room to roam.  Unlike conventional birds, organic chickens are fed only organic grain free of antibiotics and chemicals.  With more room, fresh air, and no chemicals, organic kosher birds are healthier, taste better and are better for us to consume.

 

  
  compare prices: 

Organic Whole Chickens can be found anywhere from $2.99 - $4.99/lb, depending upon sale prices and chicken quality, size and farm

Kosher Chickens are about $2.29/lb

We offer Organic Kosher Chickens at a very reasonable cost!

  
     
Cooking Tips:

Poultry should be cooked until done and never eaten rare.  It should reach a temp of 170 degrees but remember that it will continue to cook from the heat once you take the bird out and "rest it" for 20 minutes to let the juices resettle.  Therefore I take my birds out at 165.
     
     
     
   
     
     
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