What’s Inside the Chicken We Eat?
WARNING: This post contains disturbing content and images. Not suitable for people who love to eat chicken.
As mentioned in a previous post, we have a machine called an ozonizer. We heard about this machine from a doctor in Hong Kong. The machine uses ozone (O3) to disinfect and kill bacteria from various things like meat, fruits, vegetables, fabric, etc… You can also use the ozonizer to remove odor from the refrigerator, shoes, smoke-filled room, etc… It’s also supposed to remove synthetic substances used on meat/vegetables, like hormones, antibiotics, pesticides, and other harmful chemicals we put into our mouth.
To clean meat, fruits, and vegetables, we place the item in a big bowl and fill it with water. Then, we insert the tube from the ozonizer into the water and turn the machine on for 15-30 minutes depending on how “unclean” the item is.
We use the ozonizer mostly on chicken. We don’t use it on anything else since we eat mostly organic vegetables. We don’t eat pork either.
Does the ozonizer work? We don’t really know for sure, but what we do know is that when we use the ozonizer on regular chicken breasts (bought from Carrefour and Metro), A LOT OF GUNK comes out. It is so gross that we try not to eat too much chicken, and will avoid eating chicken from outside sources. We tested the ozonizer on organic chicken breasts before and didn’t see gunk like this.
Gross, huh?! Our conclusion is that the chicken farmers here in China (and probably in the U.S. too) injected the chickens with a bunch of things like hormones, antibiotics, steroids, you name it!
Unfortunately, our access to organic chicken is limited. So we try not to eat too much chicken, and instead eat more vegetables, fish, and beef.
Below is a video we took of the oxidizing process. We let the machine run for about 40-45 minutes.
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