Balut "abortion?"
By Jacruz25
@Jacruz25 (1124)
Philippines
September 21, 2011 6:07am CST
One way to find out that you are a filipino is you love eating balut. Of course balut is one of pinoys favorite food and I love eating it too. But did you know that balut is a simple form of abortion? I mean animal abortion, but it's legal of course and there's completely nothing wrong about it.
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@mantis36 (4219)
• Philippines
21 Sep 11
because the egg are not mature yet and been eaten, but there is nothing wrong with it because we humans are carnivorous type of mammals.....
its just a bit more moral rather than a guillotine a chicken's neck, the head of the chicken falls down to the ground, then drains the blood out of the neck, and removing all the feathers as a form of super torture, then eaten by a carnivorous humans hehehe
its just happened that we humans are a predator and those chicken and ducks ballot are preys...
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@swirlz (3136)
• Philippines
22 Sep 11
That's a different point of view, one I haven't thought of before.
I don't like balut (semi-developed, almost hatched chick). I do like it's soup. But the idea of eating a "should-have-been chick if I haven't eaten it" puts me off. It does seem like murder to me. Or abortion.
But I do eat a lot of chicken.
You made me think twice about all this. But I don't think I'll ever be a vegan.
You made me think twice about all this. But I don't think I'll ever be a vegan.
@secretbear (19448)
• Philippines
21 Sep 11
That's a weird way to describe balut! But I don't think it's aborted since the chicken or duck lay the eggs and the eggs develop into a duckling or chick outside the womb of their mothers. The mothers extrude the eggs willingly, they are not forced to lay the eggs.
But I love balut, too! I prefer duck balut. It's just too bad that I'm allergic to eggs. Still, I eat balut once in a while. I go home at night once in a while and sometimes I am tempted to buy balut from vendors in the streets. @Jacruz25 (1124)
• Philippines
21 Sep 11
Looking at the fetus it is aborted of course. Some balut had even undeveloped chicks that's why it's abortion. They're just different because they lay eggs first then the chick develops inside the egg. Stopping the development of the egg is abortion.
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@secretbear (19448)
• Philippines
22 Sep 11
Well, yeah, you got a point there. Then it's not abortion, but murder since you stopped the chick from living.
Your topic's interesting. Thanks for posting Jacruz25. 
If you call the process of preparing balut an abortion then killing those chickens that the lay the egg is murder? 
@Metatronik (6198)
• Pasay, Philippines
21 Sep 11
I've thought of that already that it is aborted chick. But hey! its yummy!
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@chiwasaki (4695)
• Philippines
21 Sep 11
I love eating Balut specially the soup and yellow part of the egg. Penoy is also my favorite as well. I like it better if there's a bit of soup in it than the dried ones. But I think it is been a year since I last ate Balut and Penoy.
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@louievill (28846)
• Philippines
22 Sep 11
I would like to side with Ybong007's point of view. Would you consider slaughter of any animal for food murder? Abortion is senseless killing of the fetus or human life, it gets wasted, the balut on the other hand has served it's purpose and I think even other beliefs would agree with me in that it has served as nutrition, even our Christian belief teaches us not to waste anything that is edible or accepted as food.
@ckciasigurl (2080)
• Italy
27 Sep 11
hi jacruz25!
oh!! really? i love eating a balut! everyday i eat one :))
