Sport are chicken thighs ok?
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I don't see anything wrong with it. Chicken is chicken. It's a good source of lean protein. I personally think dark meat tastes better than light. Breasts are more expensive because 1. they're a bigger piece of meat and 2. more people prefer them to dark meat.
When I saw the title of this post, I thought you were talking about a person with "chicken thighs". 
Fat can be a good thing.
breast is much leaner, but as spicypumpkin says, there's nothing wrong with the fat, providing it fits in with your daily requirements.
Throughout a chicken's life, heavy metals and other chemicals get deposited in it's leg /thigh. This is why they are cheaper - because they aren't really very good for you. (Also another reason why KFC is made of phail).
This applies much less to freerange chicken however.
This applies much less to freerange chicken however.
I believe the cost may be more related more to the bone to meat ratio.
Chicken breast has more meat than bone. The thighs, legs and wings have more bone than meat.
Now with heavy metals and toxins, this is the first I have heard of that.
I think if you get chicken a regular grocery store (U.S.) must of the toxins and crap that get into and onto the bird will happen at the process facility (Non Organic). I personally more worried about what is feed and maybe injected into the birds during their rather short life, thus I buy certified organic chicken as often as I can.
and where I get my bird the farmer swears that his birds (at least twice daily) hang upside down using their little gravity boots, to insure even distribution of toxins….
As for the original question, just something I found when I googled -
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That's pretty funny. I raise chickens for eggs, not for meat. I have 10 of them. I also know that their eggs can be influenced by what they eat. Mine will start laying in about 9-10 weeks. We plan to feed them organic chicken feed supplemented with organic garden greens. Anyway grocery store chickens have a VERY short life. They are slaughtered at 6-8 weeks of age depending on the breed. My chickens are 11 weeks old and they're tiny. The conditions for regular store bought chickens are pretty bad. They leave the lights on so they eat constantly. That way they can slaughter them while they're still tender. After all of this, I still eat chicken. It's too important for me to get the protein. Plus, if I stop eating it in protest, it's not like the whole operation will shut down.
As a matter of fact, commercially raised chickens actually contain fewer pollutants like dioxins than chickens raised in healthy, happy conditions do. Free range chickens that get to peck in the dirt consume dioxins that come from nearby refineries and factories. The ones that stay locked up consume a lot less.
As a matter of fact, commercially raised chickens actually contain fewer pollutants like dioxins than chickens raised in healthy, happy conditions do. Free range chickens that get to peck in the dirt consume dioxins that come from nearby refineries and factories. The ones that stay locked up consume a lot less.
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Wrong.
chicken is not chicken, anymore than filet mignon is 'ribs'.
white meat chicken is lower in fat (mainly saturated fat) than dark meat.
dark meat tastes better to you because of its fat content compared to white meat.
breasts cost more because you're actually buying the center breast, also called the keil. a chicken only has one keil (as opposed to get chicken breasts still on the bone w/ rib meat, which is half the keil, plus the meat on the side of the chickens body...rib meat).
so there's half as many breasts on a chicken as thighs. The breast also has a lot more meat than the thigh, and the thigh always has the bone, which adds to the weight, and lowers the cost a bit.
This is not to say thighs are the worst thing in the world...but I could not let 'chicken is chicken' slide by. if your budget and diet can account for thighs, then do it. its still 10 times better than McDonalds.