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Feldon, that is a very interesting article! Makes sense to me, as the commercial chicken breed, the Cornish cross is basically bred to eat, not do much walking around and just grow like crazy (kind of like commercial turkeys). I would not be able to bring myself to eat the pictured chicken though...just too ingrained in me to think of red, bloody chicken as bad. My mom always overcooked pork chops so badly, I stopped eating them as an adult. Now I can enjoy properly cooked pork. :-)

Zana, while I am so glad you have never made anyone sick with your way of sealing cans w/o processing, the mods here would not make recommendations at Tomatoville based on a person's experience. <grin> To be safe, I would only recommend using an approved recipe for canning anything. That is the ONLY way to be really safe...and yes, attention MUST be paid to the equipment and ingredients too. :-))) That's the 'official' line...