understandable
when you’re made to produce seventy eggs a week
and then get yourself led to the slaughterhouse at the
end of your reproductive life. Vitamin C would help
with their stress as well, but it’s rumored that
stress produces much better quality meat, so poultry
farmers don’t even bother covering their chickens’
ears when their compatriots get their heads cut off
in the next room.
Scientists fear that the avian
flu may mutate and combine with a human influenza virus
to produce a super virus against which human beings
will have no protection. As if we humans didn’t
have enough to worry about, now we have to consider
the fact that eating that extra-large meal from KFC
can kill you through flu, not just blood pressure, cholesterol,
and heart disease. Naturally this fear has led to a
huge cull in the chicken population, but unscrupulous
dealers are buying up the killed chickens and selling
them on the market anyway. They realize that selling
animals that have died from the disease is quite wrong,
but they argue that the culled chickens are at least
killed in a halal manner and so eating them is a source
of much sawaab for everyone concerned.
But many people are wary of such
reasoning and are refusing to buy or eat chicken until
the crisis passes. This has led to a different crisis;
restaurants and food industries that rely on chicken
are suffering unprecedented losses. The proprietors
of such restaurants as Bundu Khan, BBQ Tonight, and
KFC have all been spotted trying to convince their customers
that nothing will happen to them if they eat a well-cooked
barbequed Chicken Tikka, as heat is said to kill the
virus, but customers
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