An egg is a round or oval body laid by the female of many animals, consisting of an ovum surrounded by layers of membranes and an outer casing, which acts to nourish and protect a developing embryo and its nutrient reserves. Most edible eggs, including bird eggs and turtle eggs, consist of a protective, oval eggshell, the albumen (egg white), the vitellus (egg yolk), and various thin membranes. Every part is edible, although the eggshell is generally discarded. Nutritionally, eggs are considered a good source of protein and choline.Roe and caviar are edible eggs produced by fish.

Even a cursory look at large scale chicken processing techniques reveals them to be pretty messy, to put it diplomatically. And this recent data on salmonella prevalence isn’t exactly encouraging. The bottom line is that salmonella and other food-borne bacteria are commonly found in and on raw chicken.

For a taste of Pussy, Ghana's Volta Region is the place to be it (tastes like chicken). Snakes and even poisonous vipers are eaten.

Last week I watched the film Our Daily Bread which is a documentary on how food is produced in Europe. It shows an industry in which there’s not a lot of respect for plants and animals: lots of poison, young chickens being thrown around, pigs transported in small boxes etc. etc....

Organic chickens sold by leading supermarkets have been labelled a health threat by a damning investigation. Researchers claim they are more likely to carry the deadly food poisoning bug campylobacter than factory farmed chicken.

more on the pet food scandal ... some this stuff has been fed to pigs and chickens