May 2010
My best mate Romy used to be a big meat eater. Then she went to Sydney, started drinking soy lattes and became a 'pescatarian'. No meat. No chicken. No eggs ("You're eating a chicken's ovulation"). No dairy.
No fun. Thankfully, she still likes liquor and cigarettes. Even more thankfully, she's back in SA.
So last week, my husband and I ordered take out from a popular chicken place. I was hungry, so I devoured the chicken, but as I was doing so, I started to notice the damn thing's anatomy. I noticed its spine and its spinal cord; it's organs (which are largely used to detox.....eugh); I noticed the little pimply bits where the feathers had been plucked from its skin...and in an instant, I became an ex-poultarian. (ok that's not actually a word)
Then I started reading up, and it seems that chickens are the most abused animals in the world. But the foulest (bad pun) thing is that they are pumped full of antibiotics so that they can survive their shoddy conditions. And guess what? When you eat the chicken, you're chowing down all of those poultry antibiotics. How grim is that?
Wait. I'm not done. An USDA study found that 99% of chicken carcasses are infected with e-coli bacteria, which indicates fecal contamination.
So basically, we're eating chicken shit.
Finger lickin' good.
Dude.....are you only just waking up to that now? Next time you buy chicken pieces.....loog at the leg.....if there is a bit that looks like it's been cut out or even just a black mark.......that's because the poor bugger had hok burn......which basically means that it spent its miserable life standing in its (and its mates) cr*p......
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