Christmas is definitely in the air. You only need to go to the nearest market in your neighbourhood to know that a lot of shopping is going on in preparation for the feasting on Friday.
However, as you plan to cook tomorrow, don’t buy meat that has been fattened with hormones and genetically modified feeds.
One of such meat is chicken. Nutritionists say that when it comes to buying a healthy chicken, it is better to buy organic farm animals.
Organic or free-ranged animals are fed only with naturally grown feed and plant sources. Also, organic animals cannot be given hormones or medical pills. These animals are treated differently from factory-farmed animals.
Organic farm animals include cows, pigs, chickens, and turkey that are fed only grass and other organic feeds. Nutritionists say that such meat reduces ones risk of food poisoning and infections.
According to them, organic animals are usually very healthy because they are fed with naturally grown foods.
Explaining why they are better than factory-reared animals, nutritionist and dietician, Dr. Segun Alonge, says that since free-ranged chickens are not fed with antibiotics, artificial hormones, or the bovine human growth hormone, otherwise known as rbGH, and they do not eat genetically modified foods nor have their genes modified, they contain natural nutrients that are safe for the body.
Alonge notes that organic beef, poultry and more also contain no pesticides, herbicides, fungicides, chemical or synthetic fertilisers, nitrates, nitrates or preservatives that can harm the body.
He adds, “It’s not filled with toxins, chemicals, and drugs. All meat contains fat. And much like your body, fat on animals is where toxins are stored. Hence, growth hormones and antibiotics fed to cows and chickens end up in their fat.
“Eating organic meat and poultry decreases your risk of being exposed to residues of pesticides and synthetic chemicals, such as DDT, PCBs, dioxin, and more, which end up concentrated in animal fat. Such chemicals can contribute to a number of health problems, including excess weight gain and other infections.”
Also, studies show that animals, especially poultry fed with grass, contain higher levels of conjugated linoleic acid and omega-3 fatty acids, which reduce the risk of heart disease and cancer.
The American Nutritionist Society, in a report titled ‘Go Organic’, states that grass-fed animals, otherwise known as free-ranged animals, have two to four times more omega-3 fatty acids than meat from grain-fed animals.
It states,“ Omega-3s are called “good fats” because they play a vital role in every cell and system in your body.
For example, of all the fats, they are the most heart-friendly. People who have ample amounts of omega-3s in their diets are less likely to have high blood pressure or an irregular heartbeat.
“Remarkably, they are 50 per cent less likely to suffer a heart attack.Omega-3s are essential for your brain as well. People with a diet rich in omega-3s are less likely to suffer from depression, schizophrenia, attention deficit disorder (hyperactivity), or Alzheimer’s disease.”
The ANS notes that since organic animals are reared under ethical and conducive conditions, their meat is less likely to be infected when compared to infection rates in factory-raised animals.
“Factory-farmed animals live in feedlots that prevent normal growth and development. Infections spread faster among animals that are grown in a caged environment. The chances of spreading infections in organically raised animals is minimal because they get to experience the outdoors grazing on grass and wandering freely on the farm,” it adds.
Factory-farmed animals could also make you sick. Alonge states that to reduce your chances of contracting food-borne diseases through meat, buy and eat organic animals

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In summary, local chicken is better than Agric fowl.

Street has taken over

Really?

#TeamGoatMeat nothing concern me and chicken this Xmas season. Lol..




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For real Mehn ?

How can one identify hormone fed chickens?

Like seriously? Like seriously?

HOW many local chickens can We produce?

Very true.
Eat organic products if you can..

Agric chickens as we call the ones raised with antibiotics have been shown to cause antibiotic resistance when consumed by humans.

The dangers of this is therefore, you may fall sick and antibiotics prescribed for you won't work.
Or after surgery, you don't heal from infections easily due to antibiotic resistance.
Cows and other meats are no exception.

Fawoh wey we dey chop since we small...wey we dey feed with rice, eba, groundnut, dawadawa, coke....make sense fawoh o....now one group go come out from northern Russia in the name of expert, go con say our fawoh get epilepsy..

Bekiafu o

We hear,

if i hear.... Say make i no chop my broiler.

Let us stop this animal brutality, it's just not fair.

We need more #TeamVeg

Guess who is here again

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Am off chicken, Rabbit meat it is!

Op, please dont kill my joy... Why dis topic no commot 5months ago, now wey i don file my belle for 2mrw, u come dey advice me... I CHOOSE to IGNORE...

Fattened Chicken, oooooo just when i was thinking of eating the best chicken all through this christian, now this, i would pretend i was never here and never read this..

Chicken na chicken

Therfore I should prepare my Xmas stew with okuko-igbo akwaya?

Op you and that expert can't refuse a well spiced 'inorganic' chicken lap.

Stories that touch.

Kelklein:
[color=red] All those scientific 'jargons' explained above by the experts still don't answer the question

'How do we identify a hormone-fed chicken?'[/red]

Buy from rural farmers or raise your own chicken.

Or simply when you go to the market, ask for local chicken.
You can also identify agric chicken( which this article also calls hormone fed) by sight.
Most times,not always they look plumby and slow.

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So how does one know an organic-farmed chicken? Are all the chickens sold in markets not from agric farms?

How can we identify them physically?

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