Who slaughters their chickens???? - Page 11

We feel the same way but I do like some of the things they do! Some days I laugh so hard I almost *** my pants. We just started raising beef steers and they are going to be butchered in the spring. I like beef I am probably going to gain 10 lbs after we taste thier meat for the first time.

If you saw the way what you think is natural and organic chickens from Whole Foods are raised, you would never, ever eat it again.

It has become very similiar to regular chicken methods, only with different feed so they can say "natural" or humanely raised. It is a marketing ploy to get you to continue to buy something at an increased price because it is labeled as "organic". "natural", "cage free". And the funny thing is, people fall for it!

I will never eat meat from a grocery store again! I have 12 acres and raise my chickens for eggs and meat and in the spring will be adding a couple of hogs and cows so that we have all the meats and dairy we need and want. I am also in the process of adding rabbits to the mix as well, and am considering pheasant and quail.

The only thing I really buy in the grocery anymore are canned goods, and will try and limit that if at all possible. You would run for the hills if you saw the conditions of the animals raised for the grocery stores, called cage free, natural, or not.

The marketers have people brainwashed.

I have seen on tv how chickens from the factories are butchered and how chicks from the hatcheries are separated and shipped I think the way we do things are so much more humane!

I buy from a farm that I visited before and it's TRULY free range.

I glad the chickens are truly free range. Have you seen how and where they're slaughtered? Are they processed there on the farm where they are raised, or are they stuffed into cages and taken to a processor, by which time they're pretty freaked out?

So, it's not cruel for those folks to slaughter or send to slaughter the chickens that they raise, so you can "just buy them at the market", but it's cruel for us to slaughter the chickens we raise for our own tables? What makes it worse? That we don't send them to a grocery store? This isn't making sense to me.

I can understand you not wanting to butcher the ones you raised yourself. You get attached and just can't do it. No problem. I get that. What I don't understand is why you think the ones you buy are more "cruelty-free" than the home raised birds so many of us eat. What's the distinction? They folks who raise the ones you eat, raised and cared for their birds. The ones we eat, we raised and cared for.

My own birds have pretty nice lives, even though I don't hold them and pet them. (Except for Rita, she's spoiled rotten and will never be dinner) And, I have 3 hens, "The Banditas, Thelma, Louise, and Alice" who love to sneak into the kitchen and steal dog food. They will never be dinner either, but if you try to touch them, they squawk and run. There are a couple of others who will get retirement benefits, as well. But any that I raise specifically for meat, excess or unruly roosters, birds that get badly injured by misadventure or predator, are going be butchered, as humanely as we can manage, and we will eat them. 

The main difference I see is that we choose to take responsibility for the entire process, while you choose to shift "the dirty work" to somebody else. The chickens still die. You still eat them. You just hire a hit man to do the killing, instead of doing it yourself.

I was refering to the poster that indicated that they bought  "free range" from the grocery store. If you go and buy it at the farm, then you tend to get what all of us here on BYC have and process, true free range chicken!

The ones that are labeled that in the grocery are not "True" anymore.

Very good point! Well said.

chickens and ducks

yes.. if not for the meat and eggs.. I wouldn't raise chickens.