Chicken is cheap and beautiful, and everyone likes it.
Especially in foreign countries, chicken is even cheaper than green vegetables and tofu. Therefore, many people are worried:
Now the chickens are released in 40 days. How many hormones have they used?
Chicken wings should be eaten less, which is the place to give injections to chickens!
People in the chicken farm said that all chickens now need antibiotics.
Today, let’s make these rumors about chicken clear so that everyone can eat and drink more at ease.
It is said that there are many parts of chickens that cannot be eaten.
There are many legends. Let’s talk about them separately.
1. The tip of the wing cannot be eaten. Is it the place for injection?
First of all, there is a fact that antibiotics will be used in large-scale chicken breeding. (Don’t be afraid first, I’ll talk about it later)
Some antibiotics are injected, but the injection site will usually choose the place where the skin is relatively loose, such as under the wing (under the wing) instead of the tip of the wing. Moreover, the drug will spread rapidly to the whole body after the injection, so it is only taken for granted that [the injection site cannot be eaten].
2. Chicken buttocks cannot be eaten and toxins accumulate?
There are two kinds of glands on the buttocks of chickens that cannot be eaten, one is the tail fat gland and the other is the supracavitary sac. However, in commercial slaughter, they will be removed.
In other words, the chicken you bought in the supermarket has been removed, so there is no need to worry.
If you kill chickens at home, it is better to discard the buttocks of chickens.
3. Chicken heads are poisonous and cannot be eaten. Ten years of chicken heads compete with arsenic?
Chickens eat food through the mouth of the head, but the food still needs to reach the stomach and intestines before it can be absorbed into the blood. Even if there are toxins, they are processed through the liver and kidneys and will not accumulate in the head.
For many people, the problem with chicken heads is that their faces are too ferocious to go down.
4. Chicken offal cannot be eaten, there are toxin residues?
Usually people say [chicken miscellaneous] refers to chicken gizzard (stomach), chicken heart, chicken liver, chicken intestine and chicken kidney.
In addition to chicken hearts, the other four will be directly exposed to [harmful substances] in food or metabolites.
In theory, they are more likely to have [harmful substances] residues than chicken. However, chicken offal has a unique taste, and it is acceptable to taste it occasionally to relieve appetite.
Fast-growing chicken, is it hormone?
First of all, we must affirm the fact that the current routine level of breeding chickens is 5-6 weeks to be put on the market.
[Conventional] means that it can be done only by following the standard cultivation, and there is no need to resort to deceit. This amazing growth rate is entirely the result of the progress of cultivation technology:
- A fine variety; Carefully designed feed; Reasonable optimization of light, temperature and other breeding conditions.
Under such conditions, fast-growing chickens do not need hormones to help them grow. All countries in the world are not allowed to use hormones in chickens.
In fact, because the growth potential of these chickens has almost been fully developed, the reuse of hormones is not helpful, but may be self-defeating.
In other words, hormones are not available if you want to use them, and they are likely to be used for nothing.
Of course, there are also many people who have vowed to see and hear chicken farmers use hormones with their own eyes. There are two possibilities:
- First, some merchants illegally provide hormones to chicken farmers. The second is that the merchants are actually selling legal feed, but in order to attract chicken farmers, they claim that there are various [hormones] or [magic drugs] in it. Chicken farmers may not have the ability to distinguish, so they believe it.
To tell the truth, the second is more likely.
To raise chickens, antibiotics may really be used.
Recently, the news of McDonald’s in the United States [stopping antibiotic chicken] has drawn people’s attention to antibiotics in chicken again.
One fact: In large-scale farming, the use of antibiotics is almost inevitable.
The natural environment is full of various pathogenic bacteria. If livestock are infected in small-scale cultivation, they can be discarded and disposed of. However, in large-scale cultivation, once it occurs, it will spread rapidly and cause heavy losses.
Reasonable use of antibiotics is to find a balance between controlling breeding costs and reducing antibiotic residues.
In fact, McDonald’s does not stop using [antibiotic chickens] in the United States, but [chickens that use human antibiotics]. For those antibiotics that are specially used for breeding, they will continue to be used.
Since chickens all use antibiotics, will this endanger human health?
Indeed, the consequences of antibiotic abuse will aggravate the problem of bacterial drug resistance.
Once the pathogenic bacteria in the environment become resistant to antibiotics, they can no longer be used to treat diseases, and human beings may face the dilemma of no drugs available.
The good news is that China has a series of hygiene and monitoring standards for the safety of chicken. As long as antibiotics are used rationally according to the regulations and the withdrawal period is strictly implemented, there will be no excessive residue in such chicken.
As consumers, we have no technical means to identify [antibiotic residues] of food. All we can do is to choose legal merchants and large supermarkets to buy chicken.