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Costco Chicken Processing Plant Keeps Failing Tests for Salmonella (sentientmedia.org)
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[–] comador@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

I'm about 99% sure that was not a chicken spur, probably a chicken shank or rib. Reasons:

  1. Chickens feet are cut off by both old fashioned processing and mechanical chicken processing plants. Socking ie removing the feet skin followed by feet being cut off.

  2. A Roosters spurs don't appear looking like spurs until they are 7+ months old and most chickens are culled in plants between 2 and 6 months old.

  3. Roosters are rarely grown for meat in small farms and pretty much never in industrial chicken plants like Costco's.

I grew up on a chicken farm... Ya'll just need to cook chicken correctly if salmonella worries you lol.

[–] KnitWit@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

Idk, sure looked like it to me. Around an inch long, slightly curved and thornlike. Definitely wasn’t bone, it had a little squishiness to it.