Published on 12:00 AM, July 11, 2012

Broiler chicken: Is it safe to eat?

Is broiler chicken safe to eat? We all know about bird flu, but now the new concern is the “antibiotic medicines” that are essential to keep the chickens in the poultry farms alive. We have come to know that every poultry farm nowadays is using many kinds of antibiotics including Renamicin, Ciprofloxacin, Eritromicin, Colistin, CTT, etc. Poultry farm owners say that it is not possible to keep the broiler chickens alive without vaccination. When antibiotic is given to a chicken, eating of that chicken remains prohibited for three to seven days. Because antibiotic remains active in the chicken's body for some days. Its impact does not go even if we cook it in 100 degree centigrade. If we eat this recently vaccinated chicken, antibiotic enters our body and bone-marrow and weaken our tissue cells and immune system. As a result, when we will grow older we will become weaker and many disorders will start to develop in our body. But the chicken sellers are still selling the recently injected broiler chickens.
We hope the government will monitor the market to stop selling of these chickens to ensure our healthy life.