Discussing The Techniques Employed By A Few Industries In Raising Poultry Products
Posted by Larue Groen in healthy food, tags: Business, chicken, commerce, cooking, education, eggs, family, food, food processing, Health, healthy food, home, industry, Nutrition, poultryChicken is an all time favourite in our dining tables but have you ever wondered how these animals were raised or bred? If you knew, you may reconsider having them on your menu at all and stick with veggies for the rest of your life which isn’t a bad idea at all. While this may seem a bit too exaggerated, some thought should be given over the fact that these animals are typically raised in enclosed environments that you would often find six or more chickens sharing a single cage.
Having mentioned this, a spread of illness or disease among the animals can significantly hurt the business of anyone engaged in poultry products. Thus they typically combat this possibility by injecting the animals with all sorts of antibiotics. The utilization of substances that hasten the growth of these animals is also fairly common in the business allowing the industry to harvest profits in a short period of time. Thus the only way to ascertain that poultry products are completely produced naturally as what a couple of companies may claim is if they are certified regarding it.
People may not consider it to be much of a deal but you may also want to take into account the recommended cleaning routines used by individuals after handling poultry. They typically use bleach to clean themselves up and any surface they may have gone in contact with in order to rid themselves of harmful bacteria.
Thus go ahead and ask yourselves, does the thought of eating something that once required the application of bleach in order to sanitize individuals exposed to them appealing to you? Sure enough that whatever bacteria that is initially in them can be killed by cooking the meat at specific temperatures but who honestly pays close attention to this? The premise of eating it while filled with disease causing bacteria is clearly a possible one.
You may think that this is no big deal and that if that’s actually the case, then you’ll just avoid eating poultry products but this is actually not the case and the same condition is applicable to other mass produced animals as well. One good example would be turkeys. Besides, all these animals have been exposed to so much artificial substances that you may find them to taste a tad bit different. Although such effects are hardly surprising since even the most well prepared poultry products have been exposed to artificial substances at one point or another.
If you find this all hard to believe then you should consider looking into a specific videos or books written by John Robbins called “Diet for a Small Planet”. It features multiple photos of people handling chickens by pulling on their necks and slamming them to a cage. I don’t know about you, but that image alone is enough to discourage me from eating another chicken.
Besides, artificially mass producing these animals is unarguably not a natural course of action to take in addressing our needs for food consumption. With all the artificial substances people subject them to, it has become a relatively heartless thing to do and has made this food source a significantly unhealthy one.
While I’m certain that a lot of people would disagree by saying that being a hunter is only natural among us humans I wonder how truly natural it is when you are eating a creature which was bred using a lot of artificial methods.
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