This was a blog that I posted on facebook. I wanted to post this because I think its so random that you too would think about it and ponder and wonder. It’s pretty much a short-term paranoia I had a while back. Seems pretty pointless now, but I’d like peoples thought on it. Because I’m simply not educated on this topic well enough. OH and yes, I do eat chicken now.
Posted: October 24/2007
I had a sudden epiphany…
I came home from work thinking there will be food waiting for me. As always, my grandma would have something prepared…of course I’d have to help myself because …. who would really.
My Grandma made Tinola (chicken soup with papaya) and Arozcaldo (Lugaw) or rice pudding (ish). So there I was eating with my aunt and I noticed that the color of the chicken was red(ish), I asked my aunt (and inang) what that meant and they said “…if its red, it means the chicken is not fresh.”
That’s disgusting right??? That chicken was from Oceans (the new store on 410 and hwy 7) not the ocean…silly.
So I’m gonna ask you a question. Have you ever thought about how much poultry we consume?? Or how many pigs we slaughter for bacon?? Or how about beef for steaks? Actually I assume that each family would consume about 2 chickens a day (per household) ON AVERAGE, multiply that to the population of the world…HOW IN THE WORLD DO YOU PRODUCE SUCH AMOUNT OF CHICKEN IN A DAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I am amazed that people don’t actually think about this…I feel kind of sick…hahha…So I’m going to turn to fruits and vegetables and fishes as my main diet…because you never know how those chicken came about…
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I did some research…although it is not an extreme research where I go around looking for scholarly papers…but a general research just to get a general idea of what I am talking about…because I’m really curious as to what I’ve been stuffing my face with.
So…apparantly there are about 196 registered Chicken processing plants IN Canada alone…Even if the other side of the world produces half of the chicken we consume…how do you get the same amount of chickens by the next day??? I mean there are freaking hundred’s of food establishments that serve meat and let’s be honest, we all eat meat and even if you don’t…you must have had it at least once (That goes for you vegetarians *cough* amandeep hehehehe) Those agriculturalist are putting those roosters to hard labour man!
Honestly…
My aunt told me that about 3000 pigs are slaughtered in one day…for meat food proccesing…sick no? ack…it reminds of Lord of the Flies all of a sudden…I think that we’re savages. We are savage people and nothing can hold us back…from eating meat!! Let’s cut down on the meat consumption and let the poor animals mature and develop normally…
Here’s another data that you should really think about…In 2005 the slaughter of chicken were high close to about 89 million KG!!!!! I have no idea how much chicken that is….if you figure it out…tell me. Anyway…since the demand for meat is SOOO High, it dramatically changes how factories select chickens for consumption…that means…instead of mature chicken, they KATAY KATAY (slaughter) younger chickens….hmmmmmmmmmm…yep, that would explain why KFC chickens are so damn malnourished, they’re not given enough time to be fat…geez Meat of the bones people, that’s what we want!! haha ( I am a reformed meat eater…I have converted to vegetables and beans…hahah!!)
Oh and…we’re not really helping ourselves either because, chicken is a good source of protein, so are the eggs that they lay…so if the chickens are malnourished how do you think that affects us??
…I’m not saying KFC is bad,…they’re chicken is damn good, but they’re so greasy…
Anyway, in 2007 the average of chicken consumption is 87lbs per person, 66lbs for beef, and 55 for pork…I didn’t include other meat products…but that’s beside the point.
I’ve shared some facts that I found interesting, I hope you enjoyed…hahah it was fun looking it up, but I think I’m going to try not eating meat for a while..it kind of makes me sick now…I don’t even know how they can make so much chicken in one day…imagine??? Millions of chicken…theres about a billion of us living on earth!! HOW HOW HOW do you feed that many people when WE consume meat on a daily basis…how?! My family eats chicken all the time, and we never seem to run out of chicken…ever….never ever….EVER!
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