Chicken… The Wanna-be Meat
Sometimes I feel like being controversial. Then other times I feel like stating the obvious. In this article, I am going to state the obvious which in turn will create controversy.
Chicken is not meat.
There you have it. It seems like a simple statement but from informal polling done over the last year, it seems that other than men, many don’t realize this. Therefore, I have decided to state clear and decisively, why chicken only wishes it was meat.
1. One of these things is not like the other one.
Cow, Buffalo, Deer, Moose, Chicken. It is clear from this exhaustive list that chickens are different from meat producing animals. Feel free to add other meat animals to the list. Pig, horse (popular meat where Cows are God and in fast food restaurants in Russia), and the cutest meat source, rabbit.
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2. Meat isn’t hatched.
What came first the chicken or the egg? It is very clear from the creation of the world that chickens and other birds were different than other creatures. It is obvious that meat is creating during the time spent in the mother’s womb and that an egg is meant to be eaten as a side dish to bacon. This is also the reason reptiles are considered a wanna-be meat.
3. Meat has 4 Legs.
When it comes right down to it, the number of legs the species normally has is a major reason why chicken’s aren’t meat. Cows, pigs, buffalos and rabbits all have four legs. Chicken’s have two. Why does this make a difference? Simple, more meat.
4. No feathers and you can hang the head on a wall.
It is better to skin a deer than pluck a chicken, plus you can take the head to the nearest taxi guy and get him to stuff it and hang it on a wall. Ever seen a chicken head hanging on a trophy wall?
5. All you can eat ribs.
Have you ever seen restaurants with all you can eat ribs that give you chicken? No? The reason is that All you can eat places know that meat and chicken are not the same.
6. Buffalo Wings.
Even chicken wings need to be given a name like buffalo to make them worth eating.
7. Diseases.
E.Coli. A disease one gets from eating under-cooked meat. Ever heard of someone getting E.Coli from chicken? No, you get Salmonella from chicken which is named after a fish… another non-meat source.
8. Mad Cow.
Ever heard of a mad chicken? Of course not! This is due to them not being meat.
9. Hamburger vs Chicken Burger.
When one orders a hamburger, they get cow, not pig. That is due to meat sources being interchangeable. However, you have to specifically order a “Chicken” burger.
10. You need to leave the skin on for taste.
This is one of the classic examples of why chicken is not meat.
11. Chickens walk funny.
Birds in general are dumb and walk like they just got kicked in the rear end.
NOTE: I am not biased against chickens in general. Whenever I eat at Wendy’s I order the Spicy Chicken Combo and another side of 6 chicken nuggets. After all, Wendy’s has the best salads.
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I like fowl like chickens.. I like to eat a variety of both meat and chicken. I am very healthy as i eat what my body asks for. If I crave for chicken, then I eat it.
You can pick up E. coli infection from chicken though
Regarding “dominion,” I think that God gave humans dominion over creation in the same way that He has dominion over us. God’s dominion over us entails wise, powerful, and loving protection, provision, instruction (including correction), and an invitation to participate in what He’s doing (i.e., establishing His Kingdom on earth). Our dominion of creation should also be established with wisdom, power, and love.
Carly, I agree with your points. I think that there has been much cruelty to animals in our human history and it unfortunately continues today. Though we are given dominion in our world, I think people take it overboard. Treating animals with cruelty is just one example among others. Another is the way we treat this planet, which is given to us to enjoy, not to harm and destroy. The only comfort I can get is to do my part and buy animal meat that has been treated with kindness (not from meat packing plants) and to trust that God will judge humans for their terror on animals.
Just a thought from Genesis…God gave us dominion over the animals. Can anyone respond to that. What does it mean to you?
Could we please stop talking about animals as though they were just “meat”? God made them with the ability to suffer and feel pain, as well as to think and experience emotions. He also originally made them to be humankind’s helpers (not food source). Killing and consuming is something we should not take lightly or for granted. I’m appalled at the way some Christians talk about animals as if they were rocks or pieces of machinery. They may have less capabilities (mental, physical, etc.) than humans, but it doesn’t mean we can treat them however we want. We don’t do that to babies or elderly people or ill people or handicapped people, do we? Heck, we don’t even do that to our dogs and cats! Isn’t it even more ridiculous that we raise some to be slaughtered and consumed while we raise others to be companions (even members of the family)?
But as far as the is it meat at all discussion I think God said he made them all animals I don’t think he specified names like chicken, beef, or reptile. He just made them animals and told Adam to name them and Jesus tells us it’s not what a man puts in his mouth that makes him unclean but what comes out of his mouth.
But no animals were chemically altered in those days and I feel confident that God wouldn’t consider chemically changed or enhanced animals ( not how he created them ) food either
I totally agree with James it no longer tastes like meat or looks like it after they make a 3 week old chicken look like a 6 month old chicken with steroids, not to mention antibiotics, hormones and feed them fake cheap food.
Unless you raise your own or buy from a trusted free range organic place it’s not even food.
Having recently watched Food Inc. I can verify that after all the genetic modification, chicken is no longer meat.
Jerry,
Chicken is an organism of the class Aves (bird), of the Phylum Chordata (having a vertebrae), in the kingdom Animalia (being an animal). Thus, I stand by my original statement.
Chicken is not meat.
The oxford english dictionary (the definitive source for interpretation of the english language) defines meat as: “the flesh of an animal (esp. a mammal) as food. chicken is not an animal,, chicken is a bird.
if in fact the person who wrote this is trying to be serious… it is the most retarded idea i’ve ever heard. if it was meant as a joke… ooops. carrry on.
So Nishan, I’m sensing some sarcasm in what you say, which I hope you were able to see in the article above.
Would you say that all living creatures and organisms are the same and lettuce is also crying when cut from the ground?
Chicken is not meat. They come from little things in the factory called chicken and they just end up in packaging. These things in the factory are not alive or feel pain and they actually enjoy getting their throats slit and immediately put in boiling water for a nice steam bath. Actually they also like living in over crouded cages and having orgies in their owon poop. All this because thy lile to feed us. That is thier life long ambition. They also sign up for the fattest competition where they take anibiotic shots to become the fattest chicken. Also they sigh up for beeding programs o that they can produce more and more chicken. So Chicken is not meat. Who said they are meet. Yes and god created this chicken for us to eat. God thought that it was fun to make chicken scream, struggle to get away when being killed for our ammusement.
Obviously some bribes took place.
The oxford english dictionary (the definitive source for interpretation of the english language) defines meat as: “the flesh of an animal (esp. a mammal) as food”
Therefore chicken meat qualifies as meat. At least in English