Poultry, Eggs & Allergic Reaction?

[FatherFalcon]

Is it possible for someone to experience an allergic reaction from eating poultry that has consumed insects?

If the poultry eats insects like beetles, caterpillars, or other bugs, the proteins from these insects may transfer to the meat. For example, insects such as beetles, maggots, or even cockroaches could contain proteins that, if consumed by the bird, might end up in the meat. Histamines and such...

If a person is allergic to specific insect proteins, such as those found in beetles or other bugs, eating the poultry could potentially trigger an allergic reaction.

Similarly, while chicken that is fed soy may have lower concentrations of soy proteins, trace amounts could still remain in the meat. For individuals with soy allergies or sensitivities, even these small traces could cause an allergic reaction.

Should we label the meat by feed type?

 

[Nabiki]

Can you provide any documented cases of allergies triggered by feed? I wasn't able to find anything with a quick search except for a single article involving zebra fish.

 

[MysteryChicken]

As far as I know meat, & eggs of poultry are completely safe for people with those allergies as the proteins are metabolized completely, & anything extra is excreted in the form of poop, so it leaves the body.

 

[FatherFalcon]

As far as I know meat, & eggs of poultry are completely safe for people with those allergies as the proteins are metabolized completely, & anything extra is excreted in the form of poop, so it leaves the body.

I agree...
I still wonder....
Is there someone with the cellular knowledge of this...?

 

[Susan Skylark]

Your biochemistry is all out of whack! Stuff (protein, carbs, fat, genetic material) is broken down to its constituent parts in the digestive system, these base molecules are the absorbed into the blood stream (filtered via liver) and taken up into individual cells wherein they are reassembled into whatever the body/cell needs. They are no longer ‘soy’ or ‘milk’ but amino acids, water, oxygen, fatty acids or whatever. This is why eating less cholesterol doesn’t really lower long term blood cholesterol levels, the body just assembles more cholesterol out of digested carbs! If you have leaky gut, where undigested food particles are exposed to the blood stream/immune system, then your body is reacting to ‘quail’ or ‘corn.’ But that is a dysfunctional gut. This is also why genetically modified food labeling is dumb, the dna gets broken down and your stomach doesn’t care that it is caterpillar dna instead of corn dna (bt corn), it is just dna, and what if you also eat caterpillars? Don’t eat things you have a sensitivity or allergy to, but you can eat stuff that eats stuff you are allergic to because it is now pork and not corn. This does not apply to something like penicillin injected into a cow and then eating the beef before the withdrawal period is over, if you have a penicillin allergy that might kill you! That is why there are rules about what can (and can’t) be given to food producing animals and how long you have to wait until the animal clears the substance and it is safe for human consumption. But eating a soy fed chicken with a soy allergy is fine, assuming there isn’t cross contamination during processing (restaurants and gluten for celiac patients!) but that isn’t the fault of the feed.