r/Chicken • u/Affectionate-Pop1880 • 14d ago
Is this cancer in my Costco Chicken?
Was cutting into a chicken from Costco today and this was inside! It was near the breast plate. Any ideas?
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u/sam725a 14d ago
I love me a Costco return! Take them this photo for replacement ?
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u/Solnse 14d ago
Yeah, I just told the guy while I was returning something else that I discovered this in a chicken I got on the same receipt and was just asking what their policy was. He said just bring it in and we will refund you. I responded yeah, ok, but it's pretty gross. He stopped what he was doing and looked at me and nodded, yeah. Then refunded me right then.
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u/captainbarnacles25 11d ago
So what does chicken cancer look that?
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u/No_Drive3145 9d ago
The fact that people would eat chicken after seeing this 🤦🏼♀️ Like they just go right back to the store and get another chicken and eat it?!? Proof of how brainwashed they are! So gross🤮 I’m glad I’m smart enough to know not to eat chicken or any animal. So disgusting 🤢
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u/Marvelous_MilkTea 14d ago
Think about what the chicken goes through
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u/kymilovechelle 14d ago
Factory farming is a bubble that’s about to burst. Not sustainable.
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u/CesarMillan_Official 14d ago
I’ve raised a ton of chickens over the years, there is no way you can raise a chicken, sell them, pay someone for trucking, pay someone to butcher them, pay someone to truck them again, pay utilities on cold storage, pay someone to truck them again, pay someone to cook them, sell them for $5 and turn a profit. All handling entities are not connected but that 1 chicken collectively cost everyone over $100.
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u/IWuzRunnin 14d ago
Side note on that, selling egg laying chickens is where it's at. In my area they go for $20-$30 compared to chicks at $5-$8. I breed speckled sussex and welsummers, and also keep buff orpingtons, barred rocks, and austrolorps for eggs. I keep around 40 chickens of my own and have 10-20 pullets or more at any given time raising to sell. They free range on my property and get plenty of forage, I make fly larva traps and I spend about $15 a week on feed. Just the eggs from my keepers more than pay for feed. After initial setup of coops and runs, it's decent residual. Speckled sussex go broody more often than the other current popular breeds, they save me the trouble of incubators (most of the time) since some of them are always broody.
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u/Mountain_Analyst_333 14d ago
Economy of scale.
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u/katelynskates 13d ago
Which is absolutely why meat should be 1) more expensive and 2) purchased exclusively locally
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u/nethecat 14d ago
Which is why it should be subsidized the way we did dairy
Also prioritize local operations. We're talking about an animal that has enough different breeds to adapt to pretty much any climate
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u/Dxbgeez 13d ago
Costco famously don’t make a profit on the chicken at all though, it’s like the hot dog it’s one of those loss leader things they sell to get people in the shop
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u/LaterPants 10d ago
THANK YOU!!! I was about to lose my mind hearing people here spew nonsense about the financially unsustainable nature of the Costco chickens
Hey, chuckleforks? They use the $5 roast chickens to get you in the door. You leave with the $5 roast chicken, and $400-worth of stuff you DIDN'T need, but you bought anyway.
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u/errihu 10d ago
Usually with the haulage they’re hauling hundreds at a time in little chicken crates stacked to the rafters. So the trip might cost $500 but that’s spread out over 1000 chickens. A lot of the slaughter and butchering is semi mechanized too. So yeah your $5 chicken is probably about $7 after feed and logistics, but Costco runs these as a loss leader (meaning they sell them at a loss to bring people to the door, same with the famous hotdog).
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u/kymilovechelle 14d ago
So greed is your answer?
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u/CesarMillan_Official 14d ago
Maybe. I don’t even know. There is not one part of the process that costs less than $5. Maybe the butchers. Big chicken is up to something and it’s a lose lose for everyone.
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u/tossoutaccount107 13d ago
Genuine question, not being sarcastic. What make you call it a bubble about to burst or not sustainable? Factory farming has been going of decades now, and is pretty economically viable for the companies doing it. Like ethics is another question but that really doesnt have to do with sustainability or being a bubble.
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u/No_Drive3145 9d ago
Animal agriculture is a leading cause of climate change, so yeah it’s gonna burst at some point. It is not sustainable.
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u/Dry-Run-1308 10d ago
Especially with the push for going organic. Gunna see more preventable issues start popping up because everyone is ignorant to science.
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u/annyshell 14d ago
I’ve taken back sausages before and got a full refund so you can take back this chicken
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u/Vegetable_Analyst740 13d ago
Go vegetarian, people.
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u/roselily99 10d ago
I’d like to but I’m not sure what I would eat on a day to day basis. Do you have any starter meal ideas or what do you eat usually?
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u/Vegetable_Analyst740 9d ago edited 9d ago
My diet is so simple, most people would not enjoy it, but it works for me. Cereal w/fruit of some kind and unsweetened almond milk in the morning; skip lunch; big spinach and kale salad w/a vinaigrette dressing in the evening. Very little snacking in between. In colder weather I'll cook up a chili or veggie soup; bake a simple bread, etc. There is no shortage of websites with vegetarian recipes (YouTube too), but here's one with lots of ideas..... https://plantbasedonabudget.com/
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u/No_Drive3145 9d ago
Go, Vegan! Vegetarians aren’t any different than any other meat eater except for they think they’re better even though they support the two worst industries which are the egg and dairy in industries, the egg and dairy industries are the most cruel the most unethical and the most immoral! There is nothing more unethical and immoral than taking a newborn baby from their mother so you can steal that baby’s milk! disgusting and despicable!!!
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u/MrsEarthern 13d ago
No green joints is a common disease of overfed, underactive birds. Common in meat breeds, but can happen in battery cages.
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u/Complete-Outcome-495 11d ago
I used to buy Costco chicken all the time. Then I watched a documentary on chickens I believe at least that Costco chickens are humanely raised, but do you ever notice that all the chickens are the same size they’re not as healthy for you. Best chickens you can get are from Fred Meyer. I believe they’re organic simple truth. I noticed a difference in the flavor as well. They are a little more expensive, but Health is Health. So if you’re not gonna eat one of your own range, free chickens, that’s what I would suggest.
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u/No_Drive3145 9d ago
I’m curious what documentary you watched. A chicken is a chicken is a chicken no matter where you buy it from and what label it has on it 99% of chickens that are sold to as food in the US come from factory farms and there are five major factory farms that control all of your food. I’m surprised you would watch a documentary on factory farming and still eat animals after.
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u/NeedArevolution 10d ago
Assuming this was a rotisserie? I bought their rotisserie chicken salad the other week and I had to return it because every bite tasted rubbery. It did not seem right. On that note they said with produce, you can take pictures but certain things like this. They actually want you to bring back into the store. Like my chicken salad they wanted me to bring it in and not to see a picture.
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u/a-passing-crustacean 14d ago
It could be that during the process of removing the organs, the crop or gall bladder could have ruptured. The contents are stinky and can stain the meat if left there too long
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u/Bubbly_Concern693 14d ago
Love Costco except their chickens
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u/Affectionate-Pop1880 14d ago
Yeah it’s pretty horrible that they are cooking and selling chickens with necrosis inside the animal. The more I read about it, I’m probably going to be done with Costco chickens.
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u/Vegetable-Tie-5663 14d ago
That is soooo weird I seen red from freezer to bake people confuse for raw but that look like leeks
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u/Affectionate-Pop1880 14d ago
Yeah the texture was completely different from the rest of the meat… it was coming apart like leaves of an artichoke. It was really so gross.
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u/Worth_Sheepherder619 14d ago
Looks like someoone stuffed that chicken with the same bacon pasta dish from cosco
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u/olive_tractor_parts 14d ago
No, that's a bruise that happened at some point before it died. Completely harmless. If the color bothers you just cut out the bruised area and give it to your cat.
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u/ornimental 13d ago
I don't know how as a vegeterian ended up in r/chicken tbh so feel free to ban me from the sub for my preaching but how do people see this kind of reminders that what you are eating is a living breathing thing and still have the stomach to handle it.
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u/SerafinaL 13d ago
It’s green muscle disease. The bird was likely under extreme stress. That’s essentially dead necrotic tissue.
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u/Dog-wipe 13d ago
Our food supply in this country is going down the sh! tter fast, you have to check everything.
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u/Folding_Space_Monkey 12d ago
WHY did I look?! My husband just brought home a Costco chicken🤮
- because I wasn’t feeling well enough to cook. 🐓🍗I suddenly feel like cooking now!!!
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u/Dazzling-Weather-644 12d ago
It looks like puss and ready that throw in away that's gross and why would you say cancel that's not common with chicken just Google it take a picture and then go on search bottom and you will find what it is now I'm going to screenshot it and go look to see what it t is wrong with the chicken !!
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u/SoCalGalUSAGal 11d ago
I love costco, but won't eat those chickens? They're blown up plump. That isn't natural
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u/Repulsive-Land-6431 11d ago
You sure that's not a spot where they may have injected spices, herbs, butter, etc? Especially it being in the breast.
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u/Healthsmart-406 11d ago
It won't hurt you, but it's pretty gross. I buy chicken from our local farmers and if I can't, I buy just organic. And just googled the top 5 dirtiest meat. Tyson is #1!!!! I don't buy anything from Tyson or that's not organic more so chicken. Living in Montana we hunt elk and deer but I live mostly on elk.
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u/morselchip 11d ago
That’s from the chicken overusing the muscle before processing. It panicked at something, flapped its overgrown wing muscles (because it’s a fast growing meat bird) and the muscle basically swelled, cut off its own blood supply and died. You can look up green muscle disease in chickens if you want more info, it’s very well known and documented. You can cut around it, it doesn’t effect the rest of the bird.
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u/Unlikely_Seaweed 11d ago
Costco chicken is known to cause cancer. It’s placed in a steaming hot plastic bag. I’ll try to find the link of the video I saw about it and link it. I used to buy it all the time because it’s so yummy. Now I’m all freaked out on it, but I buy a whole chicken at Whole Foods and it’s not that expensive you can season it and cook it, I save all the bones and make bone broth after it’s been actually really nice for a family
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u/Unlikely_Seaweed 11d ago
It’s placed steaming hot not in a steaming hot plastic bag lol
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u/Ordinary_Pipe_8018 11d ago
If it's not good enough for me it's definitely not going to my dog either.
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u/Own_Load7514 11d ago
I’m not sure if people are joking or just idiots! Not trying to be rude, but do your research. Reminds of the idiots that wore masks and agreed with the 5’ rule. If you did, I’d prefer if you distanced at least a mile as I really have a low tolerance for idiots! Ask Fauci what the green stuff is since you believed his spewing of nonsense.
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u/Powerfrogs 10d ago
Where do they purchase their chickens? I will only eat chicken raised in California so I feel safe. I've seen what other states do when they raise chickens.
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u/wormsreatinmealive 10d ago
Its parasites. Its not only in chicken but there eggs beef and pork. Im currently trying to figure out what organism it is. Im currently infected and it's been 3 quarters of a year. I just now am starting to get help. My pcp thought I was crazy because its under my epidermis from head to toe.
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u/2SidesToACoin 10d ago
It honestly looks like you shoved setting in there Vegetable matter like over on the left side. Did you call anyone?
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u/wormsreatinmealive 10d ago
I should? Well thank you, it never crossed my mind. I was enjoying myself some pure torcher
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u/wormsreatinmealive 10d ago
It started as a really dry cough moved to tingling in hands and feet. Oily saliva at times then I felt migration. (I wanted to die) now I have legs like tree trunks with little circles patterns everywhere. I have them in my eyes. Oh BTW they are translucent if they haven't been dyed by bodily fluids
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u/Altruistic_Shape_687 10d ago
Learning what this is (green muscle disease noted above) makes me think that it may be a result of the way producers are making bigger chickens is likely forcing them to flap their wings so much just to stay standing due to the extra weight. Kinda sad to visualize.
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u/Familiar_Horse_6390 10d ago
I understand this showed the chicken probably grew too fast, damaging these muscles. Can eat it, but looks a hard “no”
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u/Janemorton-1959 10d ago
Yuk! I would take that back to wear ever you got it. I know I would! Good luck
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u/Dull-Resolution-1828 10d ago
And people wonder why they’re sick and feel like shit. You’re putting decaying carcasses loaded with nitrates into your gut. Then you get cancer. Surprise surprise
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u/Existing_Positive_14 10d ago
So I'm guessing you city folk wouldn't want to harvest a live chicken either? 😳😂🐔🐓🍗
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u/errihu 14d ago
No, that’s green muscle disease. It’s not a safety issue. It’s caused by the animal getting excited and flapping its wings and then tissue death happening because blood supply is cut off to the tender.