Quote from: Kuffy on Today at 08:15:51 AM

Yesterday I bought a price reduced meal from the supermarket - £3.75 reduced to £0.19, and I couldn't resist it.It was a ready to cook Fajita chicken strips meal with peppers and a sour cream dressing. I thought this would be great for breakfas. I'm a bit cautious about these prepared meals, so I read the ingredient and the warnings. One of these surprised me, and I'm not sure why it was included. As the thread title says, the warning was "Safety Note - Do not was poultry before cooking". So what has happened to our society that prompts warnings like this? It can't be that tap water is unsafe, as they exhort you to wash utensils after preparation and cooking. It can't be the danger of spitting whilst stir frying, as they could have said ensure the pan has a lid, Or that the meat should be dried before cooking.

So has anybody got any suggestions about the changes to our society that prompt messages like this?

I raise my own Cornish X chickens every year. I always wash the chicken meat before cooking.

Ignore the warning, it was probably a typo. They meant to say "Safety Note - Always wash poultry before cooking".

Chickens are dirty animals, they poop everywhere, sometimes in food, water, and on top of each other.

Sometimes we have to change their water and clean their boxes, every 3 hours.