Careless Kids

[Criskin]

I only know what I've read about battery hens, but when I decided to put off college for a semester my dad made me get a job at the local chicken processing plant to show me what sort of work I might expect without an education. It was a nightmare. I won't get into exactly what I saw and learned, but suffice it to say I stopped eating chicken for a long time. I still cringe when I see that brand for sale in the supermarket and I'm guessing most of the others aren't much better. The cruelty is one thing, and for an animal lover it is important, but the human rights violations (this company seems to hire illegal immigrants because they are easily taken advantage of) and the basic, common sense health oversights were appalling!

 

[pbjmaker]

I have a couple of battery hens (just got them 3 weeks ago) They are in sad shape compared to my hens BUT remembered really quick how to be a chicken. They are a little aggressive about food but I give them kudos for teaching my 3 month old puppy to stay away from the chickens

The whole thing about the 2 year olds being the ones that pecked the others to death doesn't ring true as in most factory farms debeak their hens so they CAN'T inflict damage.

This is the less severe of the two - the other one was debeaked clear into it's nostrils

 

[starforever61]

Oh my.... well turning in our projects today, I saw someone else was hearin what I was sayin, and she too did her research paper on battery hen factory farms.

Looks like it's finally getting into our heads

 

[Boyd]

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the facts or the propaganda? Michael Moore is from my county you know

 

[PineappleMama]

As to salmonella... true mine haven't been tested... so I do not know 100%... but I do know that we've been eating our eggs, not hard scrambled, not baked, over easy etc and have not gotten ill.

Meanwhile I also know that some of those farms have tested positive, or in some cases have had people get sick, and that they may or may not do everything possible to stop the spreading... I just do not know.

That's not internet, speculation, etc those are facts and based on those, admittedly few, things I trust my eggs more than store bought. That's my choice just as it's anyone else's. Sure I tell my family/friends how easy keeping them is, in the hopes that they'll join in and eat healthy, IMO safer, eggs... but I don't berate them about it. And since they're good folks they don't berate me into buying store bought... and they even keep the crazy chicken lady comments down too.

 

[Telamon]

Most kids don't know chickens much, say this to them:

Chickens are very aggresive sometimes, roosters fight to the death for a hen, and hens protect their eggs like they are their favorite food. Last time, a hen chipped 3 nails off me, and a rooster broke my finger bone when it pecked me, so be quiet and pay attention, or else you'll get a bad grade on school..



that should make them learn more about chickens.

 

[Bat Cave Silkies]

I rarely make comments on such threads....but I just can't let this one pass by.

I don't think the real issue here is the life and fate of a battery hen, I think the real issue here is what is wrong with these school kids that they are NOT impacted by the info given in the OP's report. WHERE is their compassion?

 

[wendy]

From reading your original post, I would have responded: Don't you care where your food comes from? Did you not see how a cow got pushed around a few years ago on/or by a fork lift???

 

[duck&chickencrazy]

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I was a High School student less than 6 months ago (i just graduated) and i remember in High School all my peers were more focused on who is dating who, what they were doing for the weekend, and other things like that. They just dont care where and what the animal had to live through...just that they can eat it when they want. I went to school daily and heard (in my animal related classes) about how little people cared about animals. And dont even get me started on the "hunters"....they often talked about the animals they kill and described the animals deaths in detail just to make me angry...so the fact is pretty much that most teenagers (and younger kids) just dont have any compassion for animals

 

[Telamon]

duck&chickencrazy :

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I was a High School student less than 6 months ago (i just graduated) and i remember in High School all my peers were more focused on who is dating who, what they were doing for the weekend, and other things like that. They just dont care where and what the animal had to live through...just that they can eat it when they want. I went to school daily and heard (in my animal related classes) about how little people cared about animals. And dont even get me started on the "hunters"....they often talked about the animals they kill and described the animals deaths in detail just to make me angry...so the fact is pretty much that most teenagers (and younger kids) just dont have any compassion for animals

at least ME... err... I do. If they don't care about animals, they don't care about themselves, they are animals too!