The truth about dead chickens

A recent article from CSR Asia by Jacqui Dixon reported that thousands of dead chickens reared in compact chicken farms in China might end up in our human food chain, meaning we somehow or another, we might be eating something that might have consume the dead chickens.

Below is the article from the site:

" Any idea what happens to the thousands of dead chickens that don’t survive battery farming conditions every year? 80 per cent of their carcasses land up in the human food change according to Professor Gaoming Jiang in his article featured on Chinadialogue last week. Details of the study are limited but the findings are quite shocking. China consumes 4.7 billion chickens a year but the very unnatural living conditions are causing thousands of chickens to die each year, despite efforts to keep them alive. And of course, sick and dead chickens are much cheaper than relatively healthy ones which means they land up in sausages or at street stores selling roast chicken. Carcasses should be incinerated on the farm, but in China this option seems to be regarded as too costly. In the long-term eating chickens in China will become much more costly to our health. Gaoming Jiang wrote a rather controversial article last year on how China could improve its farming practices."

I was shocked when I read the article and finally understand why chen-cai-mei wanted to buy fresh chickens killed on site to bring home for cooking. I bet that majority of the people are not aware of the dangers they are involved in as a consumer. The worst part is I cannot imagine such dead chickens being exported out of China to neighbouring countries like Thailand, Malaysia and Singapore! Imagine those people with no ethics package up this dead and maybe sick chickens, process them in some screw know where factories in some undisclosed suburbs, and sell them to us in South-East Asia as some 1SGD Taiwan Sausage! F*ck Man, the more I think about it, the more shivers I feel tinkling down my spine.

I already feel bad enough that I can splurge like most expats here, who can easily go to some Japanese Fusion Restraunt over the weekend to social network with some English wanna be Locals. Eating cheap food on the streets for some cheap 5Rmb per meal does not mean that the source should be from some unknown source of dead carcass. This is as bad as the Fermented TOFU that was created with human faeces somewhere in Shenzhen.

I think I should eat lesser outside, and cook more meals to ensure I will peacefully graduate from my studies here in Shanghai. -broods-