I call to boycott this "swiftlet factory" style of farming, both to consumer or to producer.

Producer, you dont have to do whatever it takes to increase and increase production, if this closed style swiftlet farming get widespread, and bird nest production get a boost, what most likely is that the traditional wild swiftlet farm will be wiped out due to overwhelming supply which drag down the price. Because afterall, keeping swiftlet like chicken isn't really part of nature.

Consumer, you will never know what do they actually feed to these swiftlets, and there are no control of quality on these factory-breed bird nest, are they equivalent to the wild version? Compare to swiftlets that find their own food, they will know what is best for them, and hence produced a healthy bird nest.

Is it just me or what? Bird nest taste differently nowadays.

Which is, like a chicken farm.

Incubated swiftlets eggs and swiftlets in PVC nest, you keep 100% of whatever you breed. Compare to traditional swiftlet farm which the farmers claimed only 20% birds will return to their old nest. And when anything is raised in a closed farm, and soon these birds will be fed with great deal of carotene A so they can produce red bird nest like what they did to the chicken to produce orange eggs, and so the bird nest will look nicer and fetch higher price for the extra decorative value. Then, its not sarcasm, some steroids/methods will be discovered to produce mutant swiftlets that produce 10x more nest.

In no time we can find bird nest in everybody's breakfast or gardenia bread.