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| Ralphs market chicken leg with compound fracture before it died - Mary Cummins, Animal Advocates |
An eight piece baked chicken package was bought today at Ralph's market. I've been told that the eight piece cut up package of chicken generally contains pieces of chicken that were not good enough to sell as a whole chicken. Whole chickens sells for more.
The photo above is how it was found. This was a jagged compound break with the bone going through the skin. As I rescue birds I have seen this with birds that have been stepped on. If you've seen factory chicken farming, you know this happens.
I have done bird and mammal necropsies. If you look at the joint/bone cut with the meat cleaver, it's nice and clean, not dark. The leg bone break showed signs that it was broken at least a day or three before it died. There are signs of the bone trying to grow back. The flesh around the break also showed signs that it was degraded before it died. I think it probably was starting to get infected. The tendon, ligaments were cut. This leg is the size of a chicken wing. I think a young bird was stepped on, had a compound fracture, after a day or so they thought might as well kill and sell it instead of letting it die.
Below is video. I still have the package, now have the receipt. I think the butcher at Ralphs just didn't realize it's illegal to sell ill, injured animals to consumers. This leg did not match the other leg in the package.
While I'm vegan now years ago I was the queen of cooking chickens. I had my own rotisserie. I cooked whole chickens. I never saw broken bones in whole chickens but I did sometimes see bruising in Foster Farms chickens. If they bruise, it means they were alive, heart pumping during and after the injury before they died. You'd see it at the neck or wing area, sometimes a leg. Again, I do necropsies because I care for animals. You can tell if an animal was injured before or after he died. I sometimes would buy chicken pieces. Very rarely you would see a piece where the butcher was probably new and didn't use the meat cleaver properly and broke a bone or had to cleave it twice. It was always clean, no bruising or marrow everywhere. If the animal is dead, heart is not pumping, no bruising.
Mary Cummins of Animal Advocates is a wildlife rehabilitator licensed by the California Department of Fish and Game and the USDA. Mary Cummins is also a licensed real estate appraiser in Los Angeles, California.
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