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What happens if you eat street pigeon after Chinese restaurant gets shut down over horrifying 'roast duck' discovery

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Updated 16:50 14 Apr 2025 GMT+1Published 16:25 14 Apr 2025 GMT+1

What happens if you eat street pigeon after Chinese restaurant gets shut down over horrifying 'roast duck' discovery

Most people don't include a side of hoisin pigeon in their Chinese order

Gerrard Kaonga

Gerrard Kaonga

A Chinese restaurant in Madrid was recently raided and what the authorities found has really left people’s stomachs turning.

The restaurant was identified in local media as Jin Gu and is located in the Usera district of Madrid.

Thankfully, it has now been closed due to numerous violated health codes. This outcome only became possible after complaints were made and a raid was conducted at the end of March.

Things were likely worse than the inspectors were imagining when they entered the restaurant to inspect the conditions.

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Police found plucked pigeons, with it being reported by El Mundo that staff were catching the bird off the streets and 'kicking them to death'.

As well as this, there were eight freezers allegedly containing unlabeled products with no sell-by-date in sight, leaving them untraceable.

Thankfully authorities raided the restaurant and revealed the terrible cooking conditions(Policia Municipal de Madrid)
Thankfully authorities raided the restaurant and revealed the terrible cooking conditions(Policia Municipal de Madrid)

The fire extinguishers were also not stored correctly - they did not meet the required minimum height in which they need to be positioned - while emergency doors were blocked off by rubbish bins.

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The venue also didn't have any thermometers in its storage facilities to measure and monitor the temperature, which is a legal requirement in Spain.

You can only imagine the horror at realizing there was a very clear reason as to why that duck order might have tasted a little bit... off.

As you may have guessed, eating street pigeon isn’t the safest practice for your health and there is a good reason why some nations do not consider it legal to consume.

Experts have warned that consuming the birds can result in life-threatening illnesses due to them carrying bacteria and fungi.

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Yeah... that is not the animal I want to see on my plate (ED JONES/AFP via Getty Images)
Yeah... that is not the animal I want to see on my plate (ED JONES/AFP via Getty Images)

And we aren’t talking just one or two diseases that can be caught from the birds.

Pest control company Integrum Services has said that street pigeons can carry up to 60 different infectious diseases that can be transmitted to humans.

As well as this, the feral pigeons can carry parasites, which carry their own bacteria and ultimately spread diseases.

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The most common culprits include E.coli, salmonella and psittacosis.

While E.coli and salmonella are not regularly considered life-threatening, psittacosis can prove to be fatal as it can lead to respiratory complications.

In more extreme cases, infections caused by the bacteria can lead to severe pneumonia and respiratory failure, especially when untreated in elderly or immunocompromised individuals.

And if left untreated, the situation can get even worse as it may cause inflammation of the brain, heart or liver.

Featured Image Credit: Policia Municipal de Madrid

Topics: News, World News, Food and Drink, Animals

Gerrard Kaonga
Gerrard Kaonga

Gerrard is a Journalist at UNILAD and has dived headfirst into covering everything from breaking global stories to trending entertainment news. He has a bachelors in English Literature from Brunel University and has written across a number of different national and international publications. Most notably the Financial Times, Daily Express, Evening Standard and Newsweek.

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