I have stopped eating red meat ages ago as I never really liked the taste. But I still love eating fish, chicken and yes, duck meat every now and again. But since I have moved to China I have started to worry about eating duck or chicken as I have come across so many unsanitary conditions where meat is either held or sold. In China it is quite common to come across meat hanging out in the open.
I have come across raw meat hanging on a washing line, the duck carcasses dangling as birds gathered in the trees above. In a separate incident, I came across a duck left out hanging in the open where flies and all kinds of bugs could get to it. As I walked further it seemed like the normal thing to do here in Shanghai is to hang and dry your meat in your window, exposed to all the elements. Flies can often be seen landing on the meat, some even hanging close to flocks of birds jostling in the trees above, the whole set up is just unsanitary.’I’ve never seen anything like it in my life, except for here in Asia. It is enough to put me off eating meat.
Would you eat meat that was left hanging out in the open like this?
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Lovely post! I’d be delighted if you check out mine on a similar topic
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Will do!! Welcome to my journey!!
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yessss i see i dont blame you!
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And trust me, if you point it out nobody seems to understand why you think it is a problem!
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No thank you! and I would be concerned about veges too. I have heard the use human fertilizer as in poop. But then some are trying to do that over here too.
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I have also heard that! Most of the veggies they serve here has been cooked but it is quite disconceting that you never know where it comes from.
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One of my friends was an F & B manager in a hotel in Beijing and would never even eat in her own hotel! We all have different standards of hygiene and some cultures have an inbuilt resistance to germs that would floor us. You are right to leave such foods alone – at least until you return to your own country and face your own native bacteria.
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Definitely!! I tend to go and buy veggies and friut from the expensive store where they import it. Cant wait to get home and not have to worry about what I eat!!
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Wouldn’t want to trample on anyone’s cultural toes, but sadly my most vivid memory of a visit to China as a child many years ago is of the scent of “matured” meat carried into my nostrils by the humid wind… Thank goodness for McDonalds fries, otherwise I would’ve died of starvation on that trip.
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That is so true, each to his own. I am trying to stay with veggies and fruit and fish….but over here I have heard you cant even always trust the veggies!! But so far all is well and I am still eating a lot of lovely dishes!
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