燕窩 Bird Nest

燕窩是成年燕子用唾液為幼子做的窩，被人採來食用。母燕下蛋前吐出唾液造燕窩，很快就被人採去，母燕再吐，再被採去，再吐再採，直到最後，母燕精疲力盡，燕窩中已帶血絲，被認為是燕窩中的上品。
一般看來，採集燕窩似乎並不會傷害燕子的生命（採集人有時不小心跌死，也偶爾也會傷及乳燕），但實際上對燕子仍然嚴重傷害，燕窩對於母燕如同繈褓或乳汁，牽連乳燕的生命安危，燕窩被採三次，母燕吐燕窩也三次，其中的血絲是母燕用心血養育兒女艱辛的證明，母親為兒女總是盡心盡力，犧牲自己，將自己掏空，故有心之人若知母性的艱辛則不要食用燕窩。


看了这段话，实在是怕了。
这不打紧，当你想象母燕护儿心切，吐血而死的画面，你还敢吃燕窝吗？尤其是血燕。

Bird nest is the saliva of an adult swallow which they use it as a nest for their children, but is taken away by people. before the female swallow lay the eggs, she would spit some saliva as a nest, but it is taken away quickily by humans, she then spits it again, and it is again taken away by human. each time it is taken away, she then re-spit her saliva to make the new nest. in the end, she becomes tired after doing it for repeated number of times, the saliva(nest) contains trace of blood, and it is regarded as the best grade of bird nest.

Although this looks like nothing much, as those collecting the bird nest don't actually cause harm towards the swallow, other than sometimes they do fall down, or accidentally hurt those resting. but in fact, they cause great harm to the swallow, the saliva(bird nest) is like something like the breast milk that mothers produce after their child is born. the female swallow keep spitting their saliva, and each time is it taken away, they re-spit it. so if it is taken 3 times, the female swallow also spits 3 times. after spitting for so many times in a row, the female is injury internally, and it bleeds, thats why the bird nest contains trace of blood, it is in fact blood from the internal injury. it shows how great care and hardship that the female swallow is willing to endure so that her children is able to be born nicely. a female swallow is like a mother/ in fact is a mother to her child, would u like your mother to have internal injury while giving birth to you, or would u prefer her being able to give birth to you smoothly? For the hardship and the great love of the female swallow and mother, STOP eating bird nest... unless u r not able to avoid it due to your health problem....

This is still ok, wait til when u imagine a mother(female swallow) dying in a pool of blood due to internal injury sustain during the building of the "home" to welcome you... Do you still dare to eat bird nest after that? especially Red Birds nest...

Each time u open a bottle or cook another piece of birds nest, think of those poor mothers....

Because of you, the future generation of swallow is save...