Is it okay and safe to eat pinkish chicken?

Question

L&L Drive-In does this in the mochiko chicken. It looks cooked on the outside, but it is not in the inside.

The workers wanted us to eat it. They said, "It is okay to eat. That is how it is." My dad said but it is raw. On Fox's Hell's Kitchen, Chef Ramsay calls Virginia and Garrett forward, studies them both and then chooses to eliminate Garrett. The raw chicken he served that evening simply can’t be ignored. At the other Chinese joint, they also served my dad raw chicken. My dad with rage said, "What are trying to do? Kill my family with raw chicken."

Answer 1

Eating chicken is proving to be an especially hazardous enterprise...

For starters, approximately 30 percent of chicken is tainted with Salmonella and 62 percent with its equally virulent cousin, Campylobacter.

Time magazine calls raw chicken "one of the most dangerous items in the American home," and each year in the US alone, contaminated chicken kills at least 1,000 people while sickening as many as 80 million others.

It's no surprise really that chicken is decidedly foul. Desperately crowded factory farms--where more than 90 percent of US chickens and eggs are raised--are fertile breeding grounds for disease. Additionally, slaughterhouses do an excellent job of spreading pathogens from one bird to the next.

Even if chicken was pathogen-free (clearly an unsafe assumption for any shopper to make), it would hardly qualify as wholesome. Not only is chicken nearly devoid of health-promoting compounds found only in plant foods--things like complex carbohydrates, antioxidants, phytochemicals and fiber--it also contains other suspect ingredients rarely recommended as part of a healthy diet.

Cholesterol. You'll find just as much artery-filling cholesterol in chicken as in beef and pork. Cholesterol is found exclusively in muscle tissue and can't be trimmed away.

Protein. People can meet or exceed their protein requirements simply by choosing a varied plant-centered diet and eating ample calories, says the American Dietetic Association. No animal foods are necessary. Many North Americans already eat twice the protein they need, and excessive protein has been linked to osteoporosis, kidney disease and other medical problems.

Antibiotic Residues. Roughly half of all antibiotics used in the US are fed to farm animals. If meat contains drug residues, it's highly unlikely to be detected, as these tests are rarely conducted.

Mystery Feed. Each year billions of pounds of slaughterhouse leftovers are made into animal reed, much of it for chickens. Chickens are also sometimes fed manure, which may contain pesticides, drug residues, pathogens, heavy metals, hormones and microbial toxins.

If you took a raw chicken and dropped it in a cow pile or in a pile of chicken manure, would you pick it up, wash it off and cook it for dinner? That's just about what's happening at these plants.
-- Pat Godfrey, Inspector
Tyson's chicken processing plant, Springdale, Arkansas

Despite millions of people falling ill each year, the US Department of Agriculture (the government agency responsible for meat safety) continues to stamp every thigh, breast and wing with its seal of approval, prompting many to ask, "Who's minding the henhouse?" Sadly, USDA has historically placed the interests of the influential poultry industry ahead of those of the poultry-consuming public. A new, more-scientific governrnent meat inspection system has been agreed upon in principle, but tangible improvements remain years away.

A poultry plant is not a good place to work. When you miss a day they punish you. If you're sick they punish you. The supervisors holler at you, but you can't say anything. They treat you like a child.
-- Wonder Sims, 23, poultry worker.

The horrors found routinely inside chicken slaughterhouses are not limited to grisly scenes of disassembled chickens. They also include treacherous working conditions and dismally low wages. In 1994, a Wall Street Journal writer described the work he experienced first-hand in several slaughterhouses as, "faster than ever before, subject to Orwellian control and electronic surveillance, arid reduced to limited tasks that are numbingly repetitive, potentially crippling and stripped of any meaningful skills or chance to develop them... The work was so fast-paced that it took on a zany chaos, with arms and boxes and poultry flying in every direction."

Chicken production also exacts a steep environmental toll. It takes up to 700 gallons of water, six pounds of grain, and the equivalent of about one-fifth a gallon of gasoline to produce one pound of chicken. In addition, manure from the chicken industry is directly responsible for wide-spread pollution of waterways and groundwater.

Unless we dramatically curb our appetite for chicken, the future seems grim. We can expect more people hospitalized and killed by contaminated chicken, and more families mourning the loss of loved ones. We can look forward to more rivers ;and drinking water fouled with manure, more workers facing perilous tasks and lousy pay, and much more animal suffering. Despite the present horrors and bleak forecast, however, consumers continue to sleepwalk through the checkout line with shopping carts full of fowl. One can only wonder, when will we awaken from this nightmare?

For references and more information on this subject, please see: http://www.earthsave.org/chicken.htm

Answer 2

No way. Don't take any chances with chicken. I got food poisoning once from undercooked chicken and I'll never forget it. Spent a day in the hospital and was in so much pain I wanted to die.

Answer 3

If it became into refrigerated you are able to in all probability consume it yet whilst it wasn't it relatively is in all probability no stable. And letting it marinate for a week is going to make it style undesirable besides which you will desire to as properly throw it out.

Answer 4

I work at a resturant. Our chicken comes frozen and thaws out all day. I really doubt it is safe if it weren't cooked throughout. Many people get sick from food at our restaurant and I think that is why. You might think "O she works at some weird unsafe restaurant" nope think again I work at CHilis

Answer 5

Never eat undercooked chicken, or pork either for that matter.

Answer 6

Not OK. Not safe. Why risk it? If you're not sure, call poison control (yes, they DO handle food poisoning) and ask them!

Be careful & best wishes!

Answer 7

ew, that is not okay. raw chicken can carry salmonila and ecoli. you shouldn't eat it, and you should report it to your local health inspectors.

Answer 8

sometimes is looks pink even after it is completely cooked, but its better to not take any chances..

Answer 9

Put your fork and if the liquid is clear, you can eat it. If not, give it them back.

Answer 10

it's not okay to eat any kind of chicken.