NOT MILK: Year of the Cock

[Guest guest]

Year of the Cock

 

Gong He Xin Xi.

Happy Chinese New Year 4702 to you!

 

This is the Chinese Year of the Cock,

but a relatively unknown bit of trivia

for Westerners is that many Chinese refuse

to marry this year because the " Year of the

Rooster " is also called the " Year of the Widow. "

 

Second to milk and dairy products as an unhealthy

food group, many people have referred to chicken

as " tumors with wings. "

 

There is perfect synergism in equating chicken

consumption with an increase in the number of widows.

Chicken contains a relatively high amount of methionine

when compared to other foods. Methionine is an amino

acid containing sulphur as its center atom.

 

Methionine converts to homocysteine in the human body.

William Castelli, lead researcher in the largest heart

study in American history (The Framingham Study), calls

homocysteine a key factor in the etiology of heart disease.

 

Other scientists and physicians have made similar

observations with regard to osteoporosis. The sulphur in

chicken creates an acid condition in human blood. The acid

must be neutralized and it is, as the body draws calcium

from its own bones in order to do so. See:

 

http://www.notmilk.com/o.html

 

Products in the chicken food group contain more methionine

than equivalent portions of fish or red meat. In the pursuit

of good health, many people give up red meat before chicken.

Those two food groups should be reversed. Give up chicken

eating first. (Always give up dairy as the first food group

to be eliminated from your diet.)

 

Eating chicken is not a compassionate thing that you can

do to your body. It is also pure torture for the 9 billion

birds who are slaughtered each year in the United States.

For more information on the horrors of processing and

consuming chicken, see:

 

http://www.upc-online.org

 

Now, for the best chicken alternative. If you live in the

New York metropolitan area, there is a little restaurant

on Cedar Lane in Teaneck, New Jersey, called Veggie Heaven.

Order the barbecued (vegan) chicken appetizer. This mock-chicken

dish is the best I've ever tasted. I've already used it to

convert a few friends to vegetarianism.

 

Robert Cohen

http://www.notmilk.com

[Guest guest]

The article about the chickens makes me want to raise my own birds again.

Having a trio of female hens is very easy and even if you live in an urban

area your neighbors will never know you have them. My dad gave a gentleman

three birds one of them Penny who was a favorite of mine. I used to borrow

her and a couple of other small hens to eat up all the bugs in my garden.

Penny lived for several years in the backyard of a historical house in

Downtown Portland Maine. The neighbors never knew she and two of her

companions lived there. They gladly gave up a couple of eggs a day and they

lived wonderful lives keeping the bugs and weeds down in the lovely gardens

surrounding the oldest home in the area. Consider keeping a trio of hens

yourself if you have a small house for them and a backyard that gets some

sun during the day. The eggs are wonderful and they do not taste at all

like the eggs you get in a supermarket. That is if you eat eggs. Even if

you do not eat the eggs the hens will still lay them for you. Only a

rooster will make them fertile and if one isn't around then those eggs can

be composted for your flower or vegetable garden. Think of it as a gift

from the hens.

 

 

 

I have another neighbor who has 4 Peking Ducks. They have an old pool they

swim in and I gave them one of my old hen houses. They winter well and

spend their summers roaming the lawn. Once again the neighbors do not know

they are there. My daughter and I walk down and give them scraps of crusty

bread and spaghetti is their favorite treat. I even save some garden scraps

for them. You should see them go after an ear of corn. Yes you can also

eat duck eggs. We take these eggs and use them for fertilizer since the

females are too old to reproduce. I first found out about these ducks after

Sheila their mom came over looking for her birds. She thought they would

come to my house since I had a couple dozen show birds myself. Sheila had

rescued three ducks from someone wanting to put them down. She had no

proper housing for them and a fox had scattered them. We found them and

about 1 month later they had 5 babies. The next night after they were born

the fox came back and killed all of the adults. So here we were with 5

babies. I brought over a crate and we kept them safe till spring because

February is a very cold time of year in Maine to keep baby birds outside

without a mother. 4 of those birds are still with her today. It has bee 4

years since that fateful night and these babies are spoiled.

 

 

 

Our birds always had free range of my property and the neighbors loved to

meet them on their daily walks. We live in a wonderful responsible

neighborhood and only lost one bird to a young dog who got loose. We taught

the dog never to bother the birds again and he never has. If you really

want to know what we did to teach him not to hurt them I will tell you off

post because it sounds mean. A 1 hour non harmful lesson is all it ever

took to teach several dogs not to harm them. All of the dogs trained in

this method learned to respect the birds. Even Cinder my baby Border Collie

learned this way. After she killed a baby she became the best protector of

them. She was so upset she had killed it she was extra gentle after. She

now is the best and most humane sheep and goose herder in the area. All of

the animals she keeps rounded up are rescues themselves and she keeps them

from roaming into dangerous areas and she truly loves her job and the

animals. Cinder would keep the birds out of the roadway too. We never lost

a bird to our busy road either.

 

 

 

If anyone here wants to raise a trio of birds please email me off list and I

can help to get you started. I must warn you these birds are very

intelligent and friendly. You will get what my dad used to call Hen Fever.

It applies to all birds, geese, ducks, chickens, quail, and many more. They

are cheap to raise and need little attention. Keep their pens clean, let

them get some sunshine, food and water. I have some before and after photos

of my yard. The chickens kept the weeds down and I never had a problem with

fleas and ticks on any of my furry animals. I did not need to use chemicals

on my pets to keep the fleas and tick off of them because the chickens would

eat them first. In fact Daisy and Cookie both Rough Collies would let the

birds groom them. We had the best looking yard on the street and we only

needed to mow it. The birds naturally fertilized it. We had so many eggs

from these grateful birds we kept all of the neighbors happy.

 

 

 

Kirsten

 

 

 

 

veggiehound [veggiehound]

Saturday, February 12, 2005 10:08 AM

 

NOT MILK: Year of the Cock

 

 

 

 

 

Year of the Cock

 

Gong He Xin Xi.

Happy Chinese New Year 4702 to you!

 

This is the Chinese Year of the Cock,

but a relatively unknown bit of trivia

for Westerners is that many Chinese refuse

to marry this year because the " Year of the

Rooster " is also called the " Year of the Widow. "

 

Second to milk and dairy products as an unhealthy

food group, many people have referred to chicken

as " tumors with wings. "

 

There is perfect synergism in equating chicken

consumption with an increase in the number of widows.

Chicken contains a relatively high amount of methionine

when compared to other foods. Methionine is an amino

acid containing sulphur as its center atom.

 

Methionine converts to homocysteine in the human body.

William Castelli, lead researcher in the largest heart

study in American history (The Framingham Study), calls

homocysteine a key factor in the etiology of heart disease.

 

Other scientists and physicians have made similar

observations with regard to osteoporosis. The sulphur in

chicken creates an acid condition in human blood. The acid

must be neutralized and it is, as the body draws calcium

from its own bones in order to do so. See:

 

http://www.notmilk.com/o.html

 

Products in the chicken food group contain more methionine

than equivalent portions of fish or red meat. In the pursuit

of good health, many people give up red meat before chicken.

Those two food groups should be reversed. Give up chicken

eating first. (Always give up dairy as the first food group

to be eliminated from your diet.)

 

Eating chicken is not a compassionate thing that you can

do to your body. It is also pure torture for the 9 billion

birds who are slaughtered each year in the United States.

For more information on the horrors of processing and

consuming chicken, see:

 

http://www.upc-online.org

 

Now, for the best chicken alternative. If you live in the

New York metropolitan area, there is a little restaurant

on Cedar Lane in Teaneck, New Jersey, called Veggie Heaven.

Order the barbecued (vegan) chicken appetizer. This mock-chicken

dish is the best I've ever tasted. I've already used it to

convert a few friends to vegetarianism.

 

Robert Cohen

http://www.notmilk.com

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

> The article about the chickens makes me want to raise my own birds again.

 

LOL well, I think the author, Robert Cohen, would be most surprised and

perhaps even a little dismayed to think his article had had that result!

Certainly it was not my intent in posting it ;=)

 

Btw, remember that even eggs from one's own rescued chickens contain

cholesterol.

 

Best, Pat ;=)

[Guest guest]

Everything in moderation. I eat a large variety of foods and not all are

healthy. Just a bit here and there is fine. We have to feed our souls as

well. I really do enjoy real free range chicken eggs.

 

 

 

Our birds were free to roam over an acre of land and eat the bugs and

vegetation they wanted. They had a wonderful and large pen for sleeping.

They had spacious nesting boxes which in themselves were bigger then what

those birds in the photos had 3-4 to a cage. We examined and handled them

daily for injuries, mites, and illness. They had leg bands instead of the

painful wing ones. They were pets and the eggs were a bonus. With no

rooster or if the hens were not molting the eggs were not fertile. If a hen

went Broody then she was left alone to hatch out her own chicks. Nothing is

more adorable then seeing a dozen newborn baby chicks following their mother

around. We would spend hours just watching them talk to each other.

 

 

 

I have some great photos of them and even some great photos of a rooster

being a mother hen to an orphaned group of babies. We loaned this one

rooster called " Nanny " out to a friend who had rescued 40 babies form the

local farm equipment store. He protected those guys till they could fend

for themselves. It was funny watching him to sit on 40 babies at once. All

40 of those babies made it adulthood. They lost none of them and none was

ever ill either. They were free ranged in a large fenced in garden. About

1.5 acres in total. Leaving the birds to their own devices they will take

care of their own needs. They don't need all of the fancy medications they

give them on egg farms. Occasionally we would a few mites or a hen would

get scratched by a rooster but that was all the intervention they ever

needed. We lost a mother hen once to a raccoon and I had to hand raise the

babies till another mother hen had her babies hatch out. We then snuck in

and put the orphaned babies under her one night once her own babies hatched.

She only had three so 4 more babies was not a burden for her. They all

adjusted fine and within a week we couldn't tell who's babies were who's

 

 

 

Kirsten

 

 

 

 

veggiehound [veggiehound]

Saturday, February 12, 2005 6:46 PM

 

Re: NOT MILK: Year of the Cock

 

 

 

 

> The article about the chickens makes me want to raise my own birds again.

 

LOL well, I think the author, Robert Cohen, would be most surprised and

perhaps even a little dismayed to think his article had had that result!

Certainly it was not my intent in posting it ;=)

 

Btw, remember that even eggs from one's own rescued chickens contain

cholesterol.

 

Best, Pat ;=)