Soya Traces In Chicken and Eggs, even free range organic 🥺😞

Hi! I was very shocked when I learnt that all but a few very expensive farm shops/butchers who have 100% grass fed animals, feed chickens and turkeys (uk) with soya product feed. This in turn leaves traces in both the meat and eggs. I have been trying to eliminate all soya in my diet for years due to it's ill effects on the thyroid, but as I like chicken and eggs, and didn't know this intil I read an article on ethical meat, I have been consuming it for years.

Thought this was an important find to share with other fellow thyroid sufferers. Apologies if this is well known and I just missed it.

If anyone knows a brand of eggs and chicken you can buy in the supermarket that is definitely soya free, I'd appreciate you letting me know (pm if need be).

[bantam12]

Soya is a common ingredient in poultry feeds but there are soya free brands available, much more expensive so not sensible for mass producers. I feed my chickens with a soya free feed but only because it's a pellet size that suits them.

By the way chickens cannot survive on grass alone, they still need grains and other feeds of some sort.

[Hidden in reply to bantam12]

Yes, I've looked up ethical butchers and farmers which sell soya free chicken and eggs, and it's extortionately priced. Not so good when feeding a hungry family. It really annoys me how soya is put in everything, no wonder there's so much ill health. It's a cheap filler substitute that's all and mostly genetically modified, which is extremely bad for health. It's good you are able to have your own chickens, I'm sure the eggs are far superior to store bought varieties 😊.

[penny in reply to Hidden]

I have bought meat from Pipers Farm who are ethical farmers and butchers; I think that they are a collection of businesses. Their half leg of lamb was quite expensive at £8 but I did manage to get 10 meals from it. It didn’t shrink much when cooked and tasted really good.

We also have some chicken, bantams, and so can control what they eat as far as commercial feed goes. (They love chafer grubs.). The eggs have a lot of flavour even if few in number at the moment. (All chicken are having to be kept confined or have their run covered at the moment due to Avian Flu.).

Growing up on a dairy farm, which was for all intents and purposes organic, we were very short of money. I appreciate that we were lucky in having a vegetable garden which kept us supplied with a lot of food and we kept free-range chicken. But meat was expensive for us so we had very little meat in a meal but lots of vegetables. When my husband was made redundant I would buy a free-range chicken from Waitrose and roast that with lots of vegetables. There was a community orchard where we lived and I would collect fallen apples for a pudding and to make apple sauce. I picked nettles for greens. A roast chicken can be very economical: a couple of roast dinners; cold meat, salad and jacket potato; chicken and mushroom pie; then stock to make risotto and soup. Another economical dish is Lancashire hotpot made with neck or scrag end of lamb, lentils and carrots; it is very tasty. I understand that these things take time to make but can be done in a slow cooker.

I hope that you find some non-soya meat and eggs. Does anyone near you sell eggs at the gate?

[Hidden in reply to penny]

Thank you, that was helpful!

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Is that in the UK? If so, it's all getting rather scary regarding what we are consuming even in the name of healthy eating. 😧

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Thank you!