I just saw the Good Eats episode about Chicken and the difference between Free Range and organic and typical commericial chicken. I learned a few things... probably the most exciting was how to butterfly a chicken and roast it on top of vegetables in 30 minutes! But equally exciting was the news that commercial growers don't use hormones or steroids on their chickens, it is, in fact illegal. It'd probably be a waste of money too since they mature very quickly anyway, due to breeding, and really only live a few months.

They also talked about the color of the skin on chickens. The reason they have a yellow skin is because someone decided that consumers like yellow skinned chickens better, so they put marigold petals in the chicken feed.

Posted this in war zone because I felt it might stir a debate.