In our country, you can find pickled chicken feet, boneless chicken feet and lemon chicken feet everywhere in any convenience store or supermarket. Chicken feet are deeply loved by China people, whether as dishes on the table or as casual snacks at parties. It seems that few people can refuse the temptation of chicken feet. People in China have been eating chicken feet for a long time. According to documents, it can be traced back to the Warring States Period in 239 BC. At that time, during the Spring and Autumn Period of Lu, when the King of Qi was in power, he also evaded reality for thousands of times. Even the once powerful emperor had a soft spot for chicken feet. At that time, chicken feet were a delicacy that only royalty and dignitaries could enjoy. Now they have become a national snack. Walk into the homes of ordinary people. With the development of chicken feet, more and more chicken feet are consumed in China. According to the data given by a well-known pickled chicken feet brand, the business volume of pickled chicken feet sold in 20 1 1 year reached 840 million yuan, and the sales of only one brand were so large, but this data was only a drop in the bucket among the total number of people who ate.

According to incomplete statistics, China people eat about 20 billion to 365,438+00 paws every year on average, and 80% of the chicken paws in the world are eaten by China people. However, China eats about 1 1 100 million chickens every year. The question is, how did this 1 10 billion chicken make up 3 10 chicken feet? Where did the endless chicken feet in China come from? As the saying goes, where there are chickens, there are claws. To trace the origin of chicken feet, we must trace the origin of chicken. Every day, in order to meet the national demand for machines, hundreds or even thousands of chickens will be slaughtered in a market in China. In order to meet the demand for chickens in China, there are many regular farms that specialize in raising chickens. These chickens are white jade chickens, which are hybrid chickens specially used as broilers. The breeding cycle of this convenient chicken can be shortened to one month, and it can be put on the market when it grows to about five kilograms. It not only grows fast, but also is thicker and bigger than ordinary domestic chickens, which not only meets the demand of China people for chicken, but also reduces the breeding cost of farmers. Last year, the number of poultry slaughtered in China reached 65.438+05.74 billion, which is half of the chicken we consumed.

Where does the other half come from? Chicken feet produced by domestic chickens are far from enough for China people to consume. At this time, we need to import a lot of chicken feet from abroad. As we all know, chicken feet are rarely eaten in western countries. These chicken feet are thrown away or recycled to make feed. Many European and American countries smell the business opportunities that China loves to eat chicken feet, so they package these chicken feet and sell them to China at a very low price, which will not only be wasted, but also produce certain economic benefits. Many frozen chicken feet seen in China market are mostly imported goods, which are much cheaper than fresh chicken feet.

Relevant data show that the number of imported chicken feet and chicken wings in China will reach 370,000 tons in 2020. However, hot work is not only cheap, but also has many problems. Because of the long distance and the exchange of many modes of transportation, chicken feet are prone to decay and qualitative change on the way. In order not to lose money, some merchants simply soak it in liquid medicine and resell it to customers, which also makes the frozen chicken feet not guaranteed. You should pay more attention when choosing chicken feet. If the color and smell of chicken feet are wrong, don't buy them cheaply.

Then again, why don't foreigners, especially people in western countries, like to eat chicken feet? First of all, the concept of diet in western countries is completely different from that in China. They use knives and forks, so it is really inconvenient to eat chicken feet. Secondly, chicken feet are the feet of animals in their minds. It is unclean and unpalatable to step on the ground all the year round. Moreover, western cooking methods are difficult to handle chicken feet. Even if they want to try, the food is not delicious, and few people will try again. For various reasons, chicken feet are hard to catch on in the west.