I'm more concerned about the fact that they're now "100% ALL NATURAL." What were they before? Supernatural? Man-made chemical? Soylent orange?

They also changed the packaging so you see delicious, savory, cooked food rather than what you're actually buying: sad looking frozen chicken wings with ice chunks stuck to them.

I wonder if those chunks of ice factor into the weight?

if you zoom@LogicalOne: if you zoom in, they were 'all natural' before too...

It would seem to suggest there was 1 pound of unnatural ingredients in the old package.

I hope they don't do this to their mesquite & teriyaki chicken breast varieties, as they are already in a too-small bag if you ask me (As I eat 6 of them at a time for dinner, a bag doesn't last very long).

I will have some for dinner tonight and make note of the bag's weight. Something to check the next time I am BJ's shopping club.

Wait, so people actually eat that crap? I thought it was just for throwing at people you don't like!

"Five POUNDS OF ALL NATURAL* CHICKEN IN A 4 POUND BAG!" **

*there are no laws requiring the use of all natural
**not actually 5 pounds, not actually 4 pounds, 3 pounds 8 oz

Are you sure it's a shrink ray? It could be 2 different products. Original & 100% Natural.

Walmart shows a 5lb bag:
[www.walmart.com]

@Skankingmike: Actually, the first asterisk usually says something like "No antibiotics!* ... *by federal law, chickens may not be fed antibiotics." Srsly.

There's also one chicken company that proudly sells "Vegetarian-fed chicken!" Which could be so wrong in so, so many ways.

@Eyebrows McGee: 9th level Vegans don't eat things that casts shadows.

No antibiotics in my meat is nice, but i'll take 4 pounds of chicken in my 4 pound bag too

I'm pretty sure MrsLopsided is right - it's two different products aimed at two different demographics.

Hint: if the fat/skin is yellow, put it back, don't eat it. The yellow color comes from an inferior, chemical-laden feed. Chicken should be pink and pale Ivory, not peach and yellow.

@Keter: It's not. I bought the 5lb bag in Wal-Mart eight months ago, and when I went back recently, the 4lb bag had REPLACED it in the same spot in the freezer section.

@Keter: It says 100% All Natural on the 5-pound bag too, on the lower left.

Not that I eat tysons chicken, buuuuuut

Fear my portion size shrink ray! I will eat 30pc less, haha!

I don't see how this is a "shrink ray" issue. The bag isn't mislabeled. No one is trying to pass off this product as being something that it is not. Since the design isn't similar to the heavier bag, it isn't even an attempt to fool people into thinking they're buying an old product but getting less. The quotes around the weight are probably because it may not be exactly 4 lbs, but slightly more. It's difficult to precisely hit the right weight on something like chicken wings because they can't give a portion of a wing to balance it exactly.

This appears to be a molehill made into a mountain.

MrsLopsided IS right. These are 2 different products. Perhaps no one here has been in college, or just poor enough to buy frozen chicken deliciousness, but I can assure you they are different.

The bag on the left is "normal chicken" pumped full of steroids and antibiotics. It also tends to be not as tender and more fatty. The bag on the right is their "natural" chicken. They are priced close to the same, however with the "natural" you are just getting less overall product.

I know Shylock was the Jewish userer in a Shakespeare play, but I've heard "shylock/ian" used mostly in a racially derogatory manner against against cheap people making the generalization that Jews are cheap/greedy.

It is like someone taking the character "N****r Jim" from Twain's Tom Sawyer series and calling a company or someone "N****r Jim-ish"

/just stirring the pot.

I'm more concerned with "Shylock." Read Merchant of Venice. A Shylock is a Jew.

Where's "Roz" when you "need" her?

Not sure where the Shylock outrage is coming from. The reference has really nothing to do with Shylock (or Jews in general) at all, other than the fact that he happened to be the character who demanded a pound of flesh, which of course jokingly fits with the whole grocery shrink-ray thing.

The bag on the left is labeled "100% All Natural" too, albeit in smaller black type. Federal regulations prohibit the use of hormones in chickens, which would prevent the use of steroid hormones.

The 5lb bag says "All Natural". The other says "100% Natural." It seems they've used the new packaging to decrease the weight and increase it's visual appeal (cooked chicken instead of uncooked). Grocery stores have also started using photos of cooked meat in their ads for uncooked meat. It looks a lot more appealing.

ALL NATURAL injected with water and chicken broth??? WTF?

@flodlogic: It seems most people are only just familiar enough with the character and the play to complain when it's mentioned.

@LogicalOne: If Soylent Green is people...Soylent Orange is chickens?

@Keter: I'm pretty sure the feed for pink and ivory chickens is composed of chemicals too. In fact the feed is probably 100% chemicals...making them quite laden with chemicals.

@DeanOfAllTrades: Last time I checked, my water and chicken broth (aka chicken water) were natural...

Oh wait:
http://consumerist.com/366001/more-on-the-pharmaceutical-contamination-of-drinking-water

@LogicalOne: Yeah, it basically says "no added antibiotics" but then goes on to say the FDA prohibits the addition of antibiotics anyway.

Its just a way for them to get into the heads of the "organic" crowd.

If you think Tyson chicken is all-natural, I'd ask the chickens who are kept in 8" cages their entire lives and gorged with corn so they grow fast. YEah, that's not natural to me, buddy.

@Dan W: You're right... it's a lousy headline and references like this are inappropriate. I'd like to see an apology from Consumerist, and a policy decision that racially derogatory terms like this will not be used on their site. After all, it can't be done in the comments, why should it be allowed in their headlines?

Hahaha, a few less chicken wings for more ink on the package!

@LogicalOne: The word "Natural" isn't regulated by the FDA like the word "organic" is -- I wouldn't trust "natural" to mean anything, really.

@flodlogic:
Welll, actually Shylock doesn't fit at all with the whole grocery shrink-ray thing unless Shylock perhaps wanted to demand a pound of flesh but Portia offered up only 12 oz of flesh in a one pound package.

@mdmadph: Actually, the US Dept of Agriculture regulates use of the term 'organic.'

[www.ams.usda.gov]

Something I just learned from their fact sheet - 'organic' = 95% organic. 100% organic = only organic ingredients. Both exclude water and salt from organic regulation.

They still make 10 lb packages that are still 10 lbs.