I can't eat chikcen anymore!!!

[babyrnlc]

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thats me too.

My girls are safe, even if they quit laying. They are our pets. I have no problem eating chicken. (My chickens even like chicken leftovers

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[chickened]

I was being funny (or so I thought) I figured it was a typo, if someone on a chicken chat forum cannot spell chicken they have a more serious problem than not wanting to cull a bird.

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[Kuntry Klucker]

No problem.

I did not realize that I misspelled chicken till it was pointed out.

Hopefully I will stop fat fingering the keyboard here soon and get used to my new
laptop. Love it by the way. Much better than the desk top computer. Even runs faster.

 

[NYRIR]

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[chickened]

Laptop technology seems to have outdone the PC tower style. I have not used one much and what I have used I screw up more times.

 

[Clay Valley Farmer]

Too many people, likely boarding on most at least in the western world, are insulated from where food comes from. The emotional hang-ups associated with killing livestock for the table or eating products like eggs are just that, emotional. Good judgment is all to easily clouded by human emotion and that is the basis for many a poor decision with respect to animal care.

Being able to raise and havest farm animals for the table is becoming a lost skill, without people having some exposure to this it is going to be hard to develop a balanced prespective.

One thing to I see happening that is a slippery slope is people projecting human emotions on chickens or other farm animals, things like "my chicken is depressed" or "I hurt my chickens feelings"... Soon as this sort of stuff happens I'd say all objectivity is gone with respect to making good animal care or farming decisions. Chickens don't sense the world as we do, their brains are not wired the same and it is silly and egotistic to think that every other animal thinks, precives and senses the world the same way we do.

Don't get me wrong I like to see our amimals have a good healthy life. But they all have their purpose.

 

[chickened]

The county I live in has the idea that horses are pets and not considered livestock and conseqentially they are exposed to laws directed to pet level care that are not the same as for livestock. The example would be you cannot eat your cat therefore slaughtering it would be illegal but if it were defined as livestock you would be OK if done humanely. The slippery slope is the characterization of animals as so famously done by Walt Disney has led to a slow natural death as apposed to a quick humane death for an animal intended as a food. I do have some birds that I consider pets but would eat them if I had too.
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[mamachicken888]

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Now that there is funny, I don't care who you are!

 

[Hens_And_Chicks]

For some weird reason, I cannot eat my layer birds - hens or roosters. I love them all and they are my pets completely. I have my own little chicken parade every single time I walk out the door and they come running and squawking and flapping their wings in anticipation of a treat from me (every time).

Now as far as eating chicken... I can still do that. I raise my own meat birds and my freezer is virtually full of chicken that I raised and processed myself. Of course, I never name my meat chickens - I just make sure they are humanely treated from the very point of hatch until processing. I feel so much better knowing I raise a healthy, stress free product and they all have a really good life. I do think about it a little bit but try not to. I think more about how commerical poultry operations process their birds and know that mine are healthier and cleaner than anything I could ever purchase.

I have not bought a commercial store egg for several years now. My hens are all free range and they get a huge variety of whatever they personally deem delicious every day and their eggs reflect accordingly - rich dark nearly orange yolks. I collect them and use them and sell the extras! My girls pay for themselves!

 

[Clay Valley Farmer]

Working animals like you mention with horses is an intersting twist and a good example of human emotions. Physically there would be nothing wrong with eating horse but the horse loving poulation lobbied against it and in 2007 I think a law passed religating horse meat to petfood. The law has likely not actually saved any horses from the slaughter house, but it makes sure no person eats them because that would be "wrong" to eat horse. May date back to a 7th century pope that decried eating horse meat was unclean.

Food aversion and food as identity has been used as a symbolic tool to separate people by cultural identity, often I wonder that many people use this approach in an attempt to find or create an identity for them selves. Having someone tell me they ar a vegan in the first 5 min of meeting them is as much a red flag as them telling me (as a stranger) their religion or salary.