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Edible bird's nest is health food and Asian delicacy eaten as soup.
For more information, below is the video Gordon Ramsay trying out the bird's nest soup.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpZl7Oi8M6A
Poor birds cant even build their nest without someone robbing them
Better luck nest time.
Pluck off.
Stop trying to ruffle everyone's feathers.
Can't agree more. People simply should stop buying so birds can have a home as we humans do
Nest affordability is at all time lows, and now we do this?
You realise people eat eggs too right?
well with chickens, I imagine after laying the first oh 30 eggs, for them laying would feel as natural as taking a dump?
if it's as painful as it looks, I'd imagine one of them would go BUKKAAAAAAAAAAAAWWWWWWWWWWWW when they let one out?
I honestly have never put that much thought into the psychology of a chicken laying eggs……
Actually when you start backing them out it puts a fair bit stress on the entire undercarriage.
But after a little practice it's not such a big deal.
What happens to the hens when they get too old to lay eggs?
I heard for some breeds this is after just 3 years
They wouldn't wait until they can't lay - there will be a point where they're better off getting a new one up to speed.
You also won't see them for $9 each at Coles - they're 'broilers', not 'layers'.
I think they just get turned into feed…
I have a birds nest in my backyard.
Can i eat that?
If the nest is made of solidified saliva, then sure.
Ok brb
Going to spit in it
Computer says yes
Owl eat it if you will.
Wtf am I watching
This deal has made me have a craving for prawn crackers
casual $449 for 100g of bird saliva nests. lol
When I see birds nest I think of TV show Border Security with some oldies at the counter and a case full of undeclared food.
Those ones are my favourite.
wow…. https://www.premiumnest.com.au/medicinal-value-high-quality-…
Pregnant women who consume edible bird nest recover faster after delivery of healthy and fair skinned babies, and experience considerably lesser hair loss.
Racist saliva!
i wonder if it works on fat bald old men who look like they're pregnant? Asking for a friend of course
You…. you want to give birth to healthy and fair skinned babies?
Thanks buddy.
User name checked
I didn't tell you I'm bald.
Do you eat the parents and eggs ?
Say "no!" to wastage! Eat all the things!
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Which country are they sourced from?
Probably raised and farmed.
The good stuff is natural and picked at high altitudes, which is why its so expensive. However people usually don't know the difference and get ripped off by online stores like this.
they are sourced from Indonesian.
Thanks for the typo, made me laugh out
Thanks for pointing that out, haha.
Now i know someone whose wife had a child, and the grandmother was trying to persuade the mother to eat her own placenta. My mate tried to go along with it saying "they're very nutritious" to which i said "so is f'n pizza!".
Sorry, i just don't get the whole placenta/tiger willy/rhino horn thing.
Hey hey! Eating placenta is just (freaking) weird, but at least it doesn't kill endangered animals. There's no comparison.
Well it's all in the realm of freaky shit that i normally wouldn't even think of doing unless someone suggested it. I call that same ballpark.
Neg as I have an issue with the product as i prefer to swallow my own spittle rather than that of a swallow.
People will be flocking to this deal.
Be kind to the OP, he's still a fledgling.
This deal is stark Raven mad.
This is sure to fly off the shelves.
Fowl thing to eat.
An absolutely scumbaggy industry. Just watching them tear down the nests as the bird's are trying to create them on a segment from David Attenborough was unplesant.
I think it was
You got to go vegan / vegetarian if you started watching all of those. Cuz people seem to be fine with eating Baby Cows (Veal), Baby Sheep (Lamb) and Baby Chickens and Baby Pigs (suckling pigs)
You left out
Baby Chickens (AngryChicken)
You could also argue that you are creating jobs for the birds!!
Keeping them employed and out of trouble.
I should Be a politician
Depriving those who can't stand up for themselves is certainly a politician worthy act
Well. don't look up balut because that's worse than this. Asian co worker brought balut into work and i almost puked.
Well it all depends on what you deem as acceptable, cuz people eat baby stuff all the time without even realizing it.
I remember a friend told me he doesn't eat veal cuz its baby cows, then goes and orders a lamb chop. I'm like "you do know that lamb is actually baby sheep". From that day onwards he stopped eating lamb too…. was quite amusing LOL!
You'd have to give up eating meat if that's the case. Other than… what, game meat maybe?
Civets are responsible for Kopi Luwak.
Whoops!
I mean, most people eat eggs, and most people eat chicken. Balut is just… a middle ground.
This deal is so hawkward
Edible bird's nests are bird nests created by edible-nest swiftlets using solidified saliva, which are harvested for human consumption - this is actually bird spit
And honey is bee vomit.
And eggs are bird ovulations.
And milk is mammalian lactation.
And cheese is coagulated mammalian lactation.
Etc.
And calling out one while not calling out the other is called cultural bias. Aka racism.
And thinking spit nests are cruel but killing chickens is not is called moral dissonance.
Was completely with you up to here:
And calling out one while not calling out the other is called cultural bias.
And thinking spit nests are cruel but killing chickens is not is called moral dissonance.
Is it really that hard to have a discussion without inserting ideological buzzwords?
By ideological buzzwords do you mean normative statements that you are uncomfortable with?
I'm not even uncomfortable with them - as I said, I agree with you here. They're just redundant and conveys no more meaning, nor any more precision of meaning, than other terms that carry far less connotation in the way of judgement and moral superiority. For example, the two sentences above could also be phrased as:
Calling out one and not the other is just because you're more familiar with one over the other; and
And thinking spit nests are cruel but killing chickens is not doesn't make a lot of sense.
See? Less judgement, less "look how morally and intellectually superior I am", and still the same meaning. Hell, more meaning because people won't have to go wiki what the hell you just said.
As an aside, the purpose of language is to convey meaning. Knowing esoteric and niche words is useful if you're using them in specialized fields where they are able to more precisely and succinctly convey what you mean to say. Using them in more general contexts can be counterproductive if people just plain won't understand your terminology.
Put more bluntly: Yes, I know all your fancy words too. But I also know when to use them, and when not to.
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Edible bird's nest is health food
Absolutely no scientific proof there are any health benefits.
Tempted to neg.
wtf
Hasn't this being banned in Australia??
I looked at deal guidelines. There's nothing prohibiting illegal services/goods?
Edit: also nothing about alternative food/medicine
nothing about alternative food/medicine
It's not medicine and it makes claims about health benefits not based on any facts or science.
Isn't that the same as 90% of the business that Chemist Warehouse stocks?…. Propolis, Vitamins etc…..
Actually you'd be interested to know that quite a lot of western medicines can actually back up alternative medicines like Chinese medicine.
People eating mold as alternative medicine would have had exactly the same thing said about them until some guy comes along and finds out and calls it Penicillin.
If it's illegal, then doesn't common sense make it prohibited here?
I guess I will check with Scotty
EDIT: looks like they have an import permit. Although I couldn't find a way to verify it.
And I thought bird nest was banned along with shark fin
yeah thats what i thought as well.
Not only that its morally questionable.
looks like you cant get a permit to import it commercially.
http://ciala.com.au/australian-quarantine-import-permit-for-…
Why is it morally questionable?
Because it's destroying a bird's home for nothing more than superstition.
If it were for food it wouldn't be so bad.
@Scab: Well… people are eating it so it is food?
Com'on - unless you're a vegetarian you're not really in a position to complain about what animals other people eat.
I draw the line when it's for superstious nonsense that has no medical benefit.
Wouldn't have a problem if it actually did something.
@Scab: I eat lamb chops and I know it serves no medical benefit. Solely for my tastebuds. And I eat it knowing it came out from a poor, bleating, white-as-snow baby lamb too.
Again - unless you're a vegetarian…
Ridiculous analogy, lamb chops are food.
Dried bird spittle isn't, the only reason people consume it is the mistaken belief that it is medicinal.
@Scab: I mean… if you eat it and it doesn't have medicinal effects, by definition it is just food.
And it's not just lamb - use some imagination. Pate? (that's actually inhumane) Caviar? Oysters? Quail? (not much bigger than swiftlets) Milk even? (What sick **** went and sucked on a cow?)
We eat a tonne of stuff that, if you told someone unfamiliar with it, would make them question your sanity.
by definition it is just food.
But they wouldn't eat it if they believed there were no health benefits, the sole reason they consume it is because they believe it has.
It actually tastes disgusting.
Oh com'on. Alcohol has no health benefits - and no one I know actually likes the taste of it. Cigarettes too (just worse). People are weird and eat plenty of weird stuff that don't taste good and have no health benefits.
Why would bird saliva be banned?
Having tried Birds Nest in my youth…
I can tell anyone interested, it don't even taste good.
If you try to imagine what congealed bird saliva might taste like
you'd be on the money.
"Health" foods generally don't taste good. I think it has something to do with the common myth that the worse something tastes, the healthier it must be for you.
My shit must be really healthy then.
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Why do you know what that tastes like?
what…