Recipe Friday, and still more about chickens

[Guest guest]

Vik and I spoke very briefly today about having Recipe Friday on the list, which

I think is a pretty fun idea. So in honour of the fact that I got chicken

carcass in my lunch today... here are my recipes-of the-week:

 

General Tso's Veg 'Chicken'

http://www.vegsource.org/wwwboard/recipes/messages/2836.html

 

" chicken " nuggets

http://www.vegsource.org/wwwboard/recipes/messages/1053.html

 

Sesame 'Chicken'

http://www.vegsource.org/wwwboard/recipes/messages/4475.html

 

Chicken Soup

http://www.vegsource.org/wwwboard/recipes/messages/120.html

 

TVP 'Chicken'

http://www.vegsource.org/wwwboard/recipes/messages/1742.html

 

Vegetarian Chicken Nuggets

http://www.ivu.org/recipes/main/vegetarian-j.html

 

Oven-Fried Breast of Tofu

http://www.ivu.org/recipes/main/oven-j.html

 

Mock Creamed Chicken and Biscuits

http://www.ivu.org/recipes/northam/mock-j.html

 

Jerk BBQ Tofu

http://www.ivu.org/recipes/northam/jerk-j.html

 

jerked-seitan recipe

http://www.fatfree.com/recipes/meat-analogues/jerked-seitan

 

Tofu Chicken Parm

http://www.vegweb.com/frames/food/subs/3331.shtml

 

Tofu " Chicken " Salad

http://www.vegweb.com/frames/food/tofu/2475.shtml

 

Tofu " Chicken " Salad

http://www.vegweb.com/frames/food/tofu/2451.shtml

 

Indonesian Chicken Strips

http://www.vegweb.com/frames/food/subs/3485.shtml

 

Abagail's Fried Chicken Salad

http://www.vegweb.com/frames/food/salad/3028.shtml

 

 

Why was I disturbed by the dead bird in my meal today?

 

Approximately 30 percent of chicken is tainted with Salmonella and 62 percent

with its equally virulent cousin, Campylobacter (Consumer Reports Finds 71

Percent of Store-Bought Chicken Contains Harmful Bacteria - Press Release

http://www.consunion.org/food/chickbacny698.htm )

 

Time magazine calls raw chicken " one of the most dangerous items in the American

home, " and each year in the US alone, contaminated chicken kills at least 1,000

people while sickening as many as 80 million others.

 

Roughly half of all antibiotics used in the US are fed to farm animals. If meat

contains drug residues, it's highly unlikely to be detected, as these tests are

rarely conducted.

http://cnn.com/1999/FOOD/news/12/09/food.antibiotics.ap/index.html

 

Each year billions of pounds of slaughterhouse leftovers are made into animal

feed, much of it for chickens. Chickens are also fed manure, which may contain

pesticides, drug residues, pathogens, heavy metals, hormones and microbial

toxins.

 

Inspectors have about two seconds to visually examine the inside and outside of

each chicken. At this rate, inspectors may examine 12,000 or more chickens in

one day.

 

There are presently 1,370 unfilled federal meat inspector positions. In 1994 and

1995, more than 1.9 million inspection tasks went unperformed because of these

vacancies.

 

A 3-ounce serving of chicken breast contains 75 mgs of cholesterol. A 3-ounce

serving of ground beef contains 72 mgs. No plant foods contain cholesterol.

 

The owner of America's largest chicken producer Don Tyson earns about $5 million

in salary, dividends and bonuses each year.

 

Pay for workers on the poultry line are less than for any other manufacturing

industry except apparel.

 

More than 90 percent of US chickens and eggs are produced on factory farms.

Roughly 7.5 billion chickens were slaughtered in the US in 1995.

http://www.factoryfarming.com/poultry.htm http://www.poultry.org/

http://www.upc-online.org/

 

In addition to the solid excrement on the floor, the birds are forced to breathe

excretory ammonia fumes throughout their growing lives. These poisoned gases

permeate the air, rising from the decomposing uric acid in the accumulated

droppings in the chicken houses. They enter the birds' airways and immune

system, inviting salmonella and other pathogens to colonize and spread. The

droppings themselves

contain pathogens, medication residues, cysts and larvae, and metals such as

copper, arsenic, and zinc.

 

In a single year, US poultry operations use enough water to meet all the

domestic needs of nearly 4.5 million North Americans.

 

It takes up to 700 gallons of water, six pounds of grain, and the equivalent of

about one-fifth a gallon of gasoline to produce one pound of chicken.

 

Manure from the chicken industry is directly responsible for wide-spread

pollution of waterways and groundwater.

http://washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/local/daily/aug99/chicken1.htm

 

A Look Inside a Modern poultry Plant

http://washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/local/daily/aug99/process2.htm

" In a dark chamber inside, workers hang the birds on metal hooks, upside down by

their feet. Down the line they roll, hundreds of birds a minute. Bursts of

electricity stun them, then the conveyor line runs necks past blades for the

kill. Blood drips into tanks the size of wading pools. "

" Inside a dank concrete room the size of an airplane hangar, guts, condemned

birds and heads drop from pipes in the ceiling, landing with a splash into a

hopper holding 270,000 pounds – a viscous, bloody stew. In another room, three

rocket-shaped cookers stretch skyward, boiling the mixture down to its essence.

Greasy dust cakes the walls. A sour odor permeates every corner. "

 

Tyson Foods (America's largest poultry producer) Fined Following the Death,

Injury of Illegally Employed Young Workers

http://www2.meatandpoultryonline.com/content/news/article.asp?DocID={F12D0731-7D\

C1-11D3-9A67-00A0C9C83AFB} & Bucket=Newswire

" One teenager died and another suffered serious injuries because this company

ignored the law, " Secretary of Labor Alexis M. Herman said.

 

http://www3.sympatico.ca/anji/chicken.html

http://www3.sympatico.ca/anji/uncivilized.html

 

 

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[Guest guest]

I told anji last night that I made tandoori cauliflower ... here is how I

made it:

 

one large cauliflower

one container of Soya yoghurt

one quarter jar of Patak's Tandoori past (or a few teaspoons of tandoori

masala)

big, thick slices of red onion, about six or seven of them

 

mix the tandoori masala and the Soya yoghurt together to make a nice

aromatic mixture ... in a large bowl ...

then throw in the cauliflower whole ...smoother the life out of the

cauliflower, making sure you get the sauce-like mixture

in between all of the cracks in the head ... then, turn it over, and make

sure you removed enough of the stem that you

can actually get into the inside of the cauliflower ... ensure that you get

lots of the mixture inside the head and leave it like that ...

marinating it up side down over night ... the next day, after ensuring that

the head is thoroughly marinated ... and you have to ensure that

the mixture made it's way inside the head really well ... crank the oven all

the way (but not to broil) and bake the shit out of the

cauliflower until the entire floor of your building smells like the best

shit anyone's ever made in their lives ... and people start

knocking on your door saying " Hey dude, are you like making curry or

something? Fuck, that smells good! "

 

I like to bake it with big, thick slices of red onions all over it. It

rocks!

 

You can make some naan or buy some pita and roast it a little in the oven,

and then ...

 

You are rocking and rolling!

 

Lates!

 

Vikas