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52. Weird Recycling

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4.632K Ratings

🗓️ 2 December 2011

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Clever ways to not waste our waste.

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0:00.0

Hi there.

0:02.0

Are you Carlos?

0:04.0

Hey, how are you?

0:06.0

Very nice to meet you.

0:08.0

I recently had lunch in Chinatown.

0:10.0

That's a Chinatown New York City where I live.

0:12.0

With a very pleasant fellow named Carlos Ayala.

0:15.0

We met up at a place called the Golden Unicorn

0:18.0

to eat something I'd never had before.

0:20.0

Chicken feet, also known as chicken paws.

0:24.0

Now, Carlos is the guy that you want to eat chicken paws with.

0:29.0

He works at Purdue Farms, the third largest chicken producer in the U.S.

0:33.0

and he's the vice president of International.

0:37.0

Which means I'm in charge of everything that Purdue does on the food side of the business.

0:41.0

So the chicken and turkeys that's outside of the United States.

0:45.0

So my main focus is on exporting products that are not so desired in the U.S.

0:49.0

and something overseas.

0:51.0

And you are a fan of the paw.

0:53.0

You like to eat the chicken paw.

0:55.0

It's like hair club for men.

0:57.0

You're not just a spokesperson, you're a fright. You love the paw?

0:58.0

That's very true. It's actually the best part of the chicken as far as I'm concerned.

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