Cooking ‘chicken-in-a-pit’ a recipe for 2 years in jail, warns animal rights group

By THE NATION

 

 

Animal rights group Watchdog Thailand (WDT) warned today it will prosecute anyone caught preparing “kai loom” or chicken in a pit, after the dish went viral online.

 

YouTube channel “Mom Tanad Dak” started the craze with its latest episode devoted to “unusual recipes”.

 

The episode shows a chicken buried alive, leaving only its head above ground. The chicken is then fed only coconut milk for two weeks before it is dug out to reveal an animal left featherless by the ordeal. The bird is then killed and grilled for what the show’s presenter says is its delicious featherless, coconut milk-fed flesh.

 

Netizens responded to the video with disgust, attacking both the channel and the cook in comments below the video and elsewhere on social media. The channel’s owner eventually decided to delete the kai loom clip and offered an apology for introducing his audience to the cruel method of preparation.

However, the WDT said it had already asked Ladprao police station to prosecute those involved in the video.

 

The watchdog said it had previously brought people to justice in a similar case of animal cruelty involving the dish kai kati (chicken and coconut milk).

 

WDT said this latest clip post was an obvious case of animal abuse, and torturing animals in this way before eating them was illegal under Department of Livestock Development laws for slaughterhouses.

 

Under the Cruelty Prevention and Welfare of Animal Act, BE 2557 (2014), torturing animals is punishable by up to two years in prison and/or a Bt40,000 fine.

 

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I hope that they put the "Cook" in a black hole, and only feed him coconut milk for two weeks.

According to the Thai (Kai loom), it sounds to me that they are feeding coconut milk to an egg in a pit. 

What a wonderful Buddhist thing to do to chickens.

amazing Thailand, the bottomless pit of cruelty to animals.

Go there WDT, 

crazy thais

33 minutes ago, quake said:

What a wonderful Buddhist thing to do to chickens.

Oh! Do they invite 5 or 7 monks for a tamboon to bless the chicken before they bury it?

Just now, PatOngo said:

Oh! Do they invite 5 or 7 monks for a tamboon to bless the chicken before they bury it?

if you pay, sure they would.

TIT.

Mai phet, mai gin, mai aroi. 

If they really wanted to do some good they'd have a look at the hell holes that are the intensive rearing chicken sheds here. Never seen such appalling treatment of thousands of birds kept in disgusting conditions.

Just sick, who is doing that?

but cock (and dog) fighting is ok ?

3 hours ago, quake said:

What a wonderful Buddhist thing to do to chickens.

amazing Thailand, the bottomless pit of cruelty to animals.

Go there WDT, 

Honestly, Is it a 'wonderful thing' to blame Buddhism AND the whole of Thailand for this one episode?

ain't it disgusting? How strange it is the behaviour of the keyboard do-gooders (more will jump into this band wagon, for sure).

 

Edited August 11, 20205 yr by ravip

Ask for the experience to Mr. Lawrence 

44 minutes ago, edwinchester said:

If they really wanted to do some good they'd have a look at the hell holes that are the intensive rearing chicken sheds here. Never seen such appalling treatment of thousands of birds kept in disgusting conditions.

A bit like the USA, then.

2 hours ago, 2 is 1 said:

Mai phet, mai gin, mai aroi. 

mai chob mak mak

9 minutes ago, Tarteso said:

Ask for the experience to Mr. Lawrence 

Too lazy to find a Lord of the Flies pic.....same same

7 hours ago, webfact said:

The episode shows a chicken buried alive, leaving only its head above ground. The chicken is then fed only coconut milk for two weeks before it is dug out to reveal an animal left featherless by the ordeal. The bird is then killed and grilled for what the show’s presenter says is its delicious featherless, coconut milk-fed flesh.

I bet that clip gets taken down faster than a pair of drawers in Soi Buakhao

Wait until they find out how Pate de Fois Gras is raised!

 

Traditionally, a goose is kept in close confinement - in the old days it was tied by the leg to a corner in the kitchen so that it did not take any exercise. It was then force-fed hig-calorific food through a funnel at regular intervals. This would cause the liver to become enlarged and fat. Over time, the bird would become somewhat immobile.

5 hours ago, Matzzon said:

According to the Thai (Kai loom), it sounds to me that they are feeding coconut milk to an egg in a pit. 

How much Thai do you read? If you know any at all, you know the first letter of the Thai alphabet is ก.ไก่ (kaw kai). The word means chicken. It's on the cover of most first readers for children. Transliterating Thai is inaccurate at best, but this letter is usually is transliterated with K. To me, it sounds more like a hard G, but unvoiced and unaspirated. The 2nd letter is ข.ไข (khaw khai), the one you seem to be referring to. The word means egg. It's more commonly transliterated as kh. The H indicares that it's aspirated, that is, it's got breath behind it. Both words are short (eye) vowel sound, low tones, the only difference being the consonants. They're often confused if you don't read Thai. I've been reading Thai for 43 years. I have never met any westerner who speaks Thai well who doesn't also read it. 

 

Not trying to be mean here, but if you only meant it as a little joke, you bombed. 

11 minutes ago, LawrenceN said:

How much Thai do you read? If you know any at all, you know the first letter of the Thai alphabet is ก.ไก่ (kaw kai). The word means chicken. It's on the cover of most first readers for children. Transliterating Thai is inaccurate at best, but this letter is usually is transliterated with K. To me, it sounds more like a hard G, but unvoiced and unaspirated. The 2nd letter is ข.ไข (khaw khai), the one you seem to be referring to. The word means egg. It's more commonly transliterated as kh. The H indicares that it's aspirated, that is, it's got breath behind it. Both words are short (eye) vowel sound, low tones, the only difference being the consonants. They're often confused if you don't read Thai. I've been reading Thai for 43 years. I have never met any westerner who speaks Thai well who doesn't also read it. 

 

Not trying to be mean here, but if you only meant it as a little joke, you bombed. 

Yep, you are the man! I know nothing after almost 23 years here. ????

Anyway, like you mentioned with that it´s sound like a G. Yeah, darn man! You´re spot on!

Like they say Kai Gai. Mean egg from chicken, right? Or do you hear them speak Kai Kai? ????

Wonder who´s bombed now?

And, yes. It was not meant to be much serious. Guess it´s just you that needed to get your error invaded ego-trip.

Edited August 11, 20205 yr by Matzzon

3 hours ago, edwinchester said:

If they really wanted to do some good they'd have a look at the hell holes that are the intensive rearing chicken sheds here. Never seen such appalling treatment of thousands of birds kept in disgusting conditions.

reminds me of a time in Mexico when my visitors drunk lady friend was crying over the cruelty she witnessed attending a cock fight  - I said she must get right hysterical waiting in line for a bucket at KFC considering the way poultry is housed prior to slaughter..

Edited August 11, 20205 yr by from the home of CC

1 hour ago, Proboscis said:

Wait until they find out how Pate de Fois Gras is raised!

 

Traditionally, a goose is kept in close confinement - in the old days it was tied by the leg to a corner in the kitchen so that it did not take any exercise. It was then force-fed hig-calorific food through a funnel at regular intervals. This would cause the liver to become enlarged and fat. Over time, the bird would become somewhat immobile.

sounds like the regular habits of over indulging expats here except the funnel is attached to a spigot lol..

3 hours ago, KarenBravo said:

A bit like the USA, then.

Actually the USA and UK are worse. 

 

Here the chickens are kept at lower densities and less birds to a cage..so they have more room.

 

They do this not for animals welfare but because here it's too hot to keep them close together without then dying. 

1 hour ago, Matzzon said:

Like they say Kai Gai. Mean egg from chicken, right? Or do you hear them speak Kai Kai? ????
 

The former, if I have to choose. But I avoid spelling Thai with the wrong alphabet, so I'll stick with ไข่ไก่.

Edited August 11, 20205 yr by LawrenceN
Clarification

The girls used to fight over my cock before I buried it.....?...

25 minutes ago, LawrenceN said:

The former, if I have to choose. But I avoid spelling Thai with the wrong alphabet, so I'll stick with ไข่ไก่.

Ok, mean I was right in all simplicity, then. However, feel free to stick to your formula. ???? 
 

2 minutes ago, PETERTHEEATER said:

The girls used to fight over my cock before I buried it.....?...

Seriously? Not in a chicken, I hope. Peter, now I am starting to worry about you. ????

I don't hear anyone complain about Wagyu or Kobe beef... These cows are subjected to a diet of 2-3 bottles of beer a day (real lucky ones drink sake!); they are massaged daily with beer as well...

 

Aroi maak maak ????

 

Barbaric 

14 hours ago, webfact said:

Cooking ‘chicken-in-a-pit’ a recipe for 2 years in jail, warns animal rights group

While I agree it's not good to make the animal suffer like that, does it mean the animal rights group will also be prosecuting anyone caught cooking live lobsters and other seafood too?

Animal cruelty is unacceptable. Kill the chicken humanely and then cook it as you wish.