Ryan Gosling has joined Pam Anderson in the fight against KFC and it's use of chickens on abusive chicken farms. There's been much public outrage and many jokes about chickens. I have a lot to say about this. I'll try and make it brief. Animals have been used for their meat products since the first cave man stood up and grabbed a tree limb club. I live in farm country, we aint chowin' on no tofu sammy. You vegans are welcome to disagree and I will give you a cyber hug and understand. BUT..I've never met a farmer who wasn't decent to his livestock. All animals have the right to a normal animal life, with good places to run and play and socialize with their own kind. They have a right to a quick painless death and a life with dignity, no matter how short. Chickens are not rocks. They are intelligent social beings who are smart and capable of much more than you'd think if you never owned any. I have visited these "chicken farms", calling that a farm is shameful. It's disgusting and unbelievably cruel. If Ryan Gosling and Pam Anderson can help effect change..good on 'em. PETA is no help, they just talk and make naked celeb posters.
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One thing I think will help is more regulation concerning the price of free range meat. I know it costs more to raise them kindly..but, not as much as the prices reflect. I know more people would buy the kinder product if it didn't kick the ass of their family grocery budget. Okay, I'm done..now I want to hear from YOU.
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I totally agree that animals need not be abused, but calling a chicken an "intelligent social being" is a STRETCH!!
Sorry, but, I've owned many. They came when called by name, rode shotgun in the car, were housetrained and loved and knew me. Some of them did tricks, like a dog. They had chicken friends and chicken enemies. Chickens are good shits, you'd be surprised.
I wish all the animals were free range and raised kindly. If you want to know why girls are starting puberty by age 9 look at what they do to these animals to pump them up and have them ready to slaughter within a year. There's more steroids in beef, poultry etc. in the grocery store than there is in Roger Clemens.
Ahna
Oh man, did you hit a nail on the head with that puberty statement. So true and weird. I know this for a fact and from a personal point.
Chicken Farms are incredibly cruel. There are a lot of so called animal farms that are awful. It is far better to buy 'free range' meat that has not come from animals that have been over injected with hormones to make them bigger. It is a shame it is so much more expensive. I have been a vegetarian for 11 years but I don't think it is wrong for people to eat meat- it's a personal choice. I do wish people knew where a lot of their meat was coming from. It is so far removed from the 'farm' when it has been packaged nice and neat in the store.
I completely agree! I used to eat KFC like it was going out of style!! Until I learned about their farms and the way they treat their livestock. :( sooo sad. I haven't eaten it since, and won't ever eat it again unless a lot of things change!!!
As white trash as this is gonna sound I don't care. But my mom used to work on a chicken farm to help out a friend.
They're terribly cruel, inhumane if you will. If the chickens aren't the beefy size they want. You have to kill them by stomping their heads. When truckers gather them to take them to the slaughter house, they literally throw them into the trucks. If they die, they die. They don't care. It's disgusting. Also to aid in the chickens gaining weight, steroids are put into their food, etc etc.
TRUE STORY.
It's the constant lonely tiny confinement that bothers me the most.
It doesnt matter to me whether they're intelligent or not. I'm at a point where I can't justify killing things to eat them since I've found out how much better my 50 year old body looks and feels eating raw greens instead of eating the cow which ate the greens.
Despite the billions spent on nutritional data, there are many of us proving to ourselves how wrong conventional diets are.
I SO believe you..I just can't change.
Some can play the piano! But they sure taste good! I can't eat any fried chicken that looks like a body part. It has to be a filet or a boneless breast , nothing identifiable. Anthony Bordain was in Thailand eating stir fried chicken feet the other day, he loved them,then he was eating chicken assholes, he didn't love them. He said it was rubbery in his mouth. It was called "something", poo" literally where the poo comes from! EWW! Yeah, they waste not want not over there! Ahna is right about the puberty thing. But why doesn't it affect the little boys? & veggies are so much better for us I agree. I'm 50 also and I eat mostly veggies now. Red meat , almost never & some chicken. Lets just all eat cheese pizza. Thats good, right? Pizza Margarita! Yay! The best! Pizza & veggies! Yummy! Ryan is a Gosling, now thats funny! Gotta protect his bros!
i agree with anon 8:20....whenever i don't eat meat i feel SO much better, no aches/pains in my joints, skin looks better, i am just healthier overall....
I love to eat chicken. I'm not going to lie. But I do agree with you DD, There is no need to have these animals being cruelly treated before they are made into tasty drumsticks and thighs.
-Fin
whatyu guys proposing???...tell the chickens that they are going to a nightclub and that Brit-Brit will be there, so smiling & happy as they all walk & giggle along their merry way, what? an ax falls on thier heads as they enter the doorway to the slaughter house that was designed to fool them with it's disco ball and music? Yeah...that could work.
I'm a vegetarian. I don't think it's morally wrong to eat meat. I don't like factory farms, either. Unfortunately, even the "free range" chicken aren't really as free range as one might expect. All a farm has to do to qualify as free range is to give the chickens a tiny pen with grass that they are allowed to wander into for 2 weeks of their life. So basically there are 50,000 chickens in a warehouse with one tiny door to a strip of fenced in grass typically about 5 feet by 10 feet. Understandably, the chickens pretty much never figure out how to go out or desire to go out as it's a fairly difficult endeavor to push by thousands towards one tiny strip of light. So it's *slightly* less bad in that the chickens don't get crammed into cages with their beaks cut off to prevent them from pecking each other or preening themselves to death but it's still a whole lot of birds in a tiny indoor setting.
http://www.antiaginglifeextension.com/health_matters_minutes/articles/free_range_chicken_eggs.asp?a=3907&c=&p=
Urgh, here it is
I've been a vegetarian for most of my life and animal lover all my life. I ADORE animals. I could never eat something I loved. I've known people with chickens and I've seen them show more intelligence and common sense than most people I've met. I think people like to think an animal is stupid because it makes it easier to eat it.
Animals have a right to live..like humans do. They have a right to breathe fresh air and to live the life that was given to them.
People who hear me talk about my love of animals say "but if we didn't kill them they would overpopulate the earth." I say "So what, the world is overpopulated by humans, should we all kill them to decrease the amount." People would think twice about eating meat if human flesh was the norm and people were hunting each other. Then they would think that life is precious. Well, it's precious for animals as well.
I can't eat or have anything to do with killing animals that have a right to their life and who just want to live and be free.
I don't know why animals are treated so horribly and how people believe they are on this planet for us to kill.
I value life and respect it..I cannot kill or eat anything I respect.
I know most won't agree with me and I'm ok with that. I can only hope that people will someday see themselves as not so superior as the only thing that makes them so is a bigger brain that most people fail to use in the first place.
Attack me all you want..I don't come back to check posts.
Eliza :)
I like chicken, but I don't condone ANY of those cruel actions. I try to buy as organic and LOCALLY grown as possible. There's not a way to please everyone, even plants suffer at a lower scale when we slice them to cubes, carve them with a knife or snip the leaves. That's why is better to buy from YOUR LOCAL sources as much as possible, INQUIRE about the way YOUR LOCAL farm slaughters its calves, poultry, produce etc, to ensure that the animal/plant has been treated with respect...I don't do junk food, and try no to eat deli meats, mass produced meat items, etc, not because I'm a vegetarian, which I am not, but because I don't agree with the procedures they use to process them.
I agree with the poster who suggested a thinning of the human race :)
I'm a vegetarian too, at least in my heart, if not always in my stomach. I have to admit that I struggle with it. It's very easy to pick up the phone and call for KFC, or go grab a burger. But the more we think about what we put into our bodies, and the more we know about where this food comes from and how it is produced, the better. I think that if everybody could visit a livestock farm, they would never again eat meat. If they knew how dangerous pesticides are, they would all demand--and get--organically-grown produce. Remember the expression, "garbage in, garbage out". Eating healthy food really does go a long way toward having a healthy body, and knowledge truly is power. Hopefully, we'll all live long enough to see real change in the food industry.
CapriciousCat
its great to see so many people against factory farm animals and so aware of the cruelty. i wish the guy in the shop next to ours would twig onto what you are all saying. then maybe he would stop putting his blackboard advertising his chicken soup in the doorway of our vegan cafe!! why do you think he does that?
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