McDonald's finally did something right

[chickened]

They will most likely go back to buying from them when the dust settles.

 

[OSUman]

Its sad that one person with a video camera and the power to abuse and encourage abuse of animals can make a good business loose alot of their customers.

 

[Mac in Wisco]

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They didn't make much of a change. If they go to a different supplier they get the same, as that is the picture of commercial, conventional egg production in the U.S.

There were a few bad things shown, the most egregious being workers throwing live birds or one of the workers swinging a bird around over his head. The rest is neither here nor there. Cages? Debatable, everybody knows that they are used. Beak trimming? Also debatable. Filth? Maybe, maybe not.

I just watched the 20/20 report this evening with my 21 year old son. He commented how horrible that was. I asked him whether he felt we did a good job with our 2500 hens. He said we do much better than that, no comparison whatsoever... I then pointed out to him that we have birds that die and that I have to pick up carcasses. We always have rodents that we work to control. There are times when the flies get bad. There are times that I have to cull sick birds. I put the carcasses into our compost pile as well as carcasses from 100's of birds that we have slaughtered for dinner and compost them into fertilizer, so there are areas of our garden and farm that are littered with chicken bones from spreading finished compost.

Give somebody a camera and let them selectively film what I just described, compile it into a montage with some sad music, and they can make it look like a horror show.

 

[Matthew3590]

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[deerman]

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They didn't make much of a change. If they go to a different supplier they get the same, as that is the picture of commercial, conventional egg production in the U.S.

There were a few bad things shown, the most egregious being workers throwing live birds or one of the workers swinging a bird around over his head. The rest is neither here nor there. Cages? Debatable, everybody knows that they are used. Beak trimming? Also debatable. Filth? Maybe, maybe not.

I just watched the 20/20 report this evening with my 21 year old son. He commented how horrible that was. I asked him whether he felt we did a good job with our 2500 hens. He said we do much better than that, no comparison whatsoever... I then pointed out to him that we have birds that die and that I have to pick up carcasses. We always have rodents that we work to control. There are times when the flies get bad. There are times that I have to cull sick birds. I put the carcasses into our compost pile as well as carcasses from 100's of birds that we have slaughtered for dinner and compost them into fertilizer, so there are areas of our garden and farm that are littered with chicken bones from spreading finished compost.

Give somebody a camera and let them selectively film what I just described, compile it into a montage with some sad music, and they can make it look like a horror show.

Mac you made some good points......people who have never seen bird cull ,or butcher . would think how wrong we are for wringing a neck, or chopping a head off of a chicken. The fact the way some raise our birds and still butcher them. not every one can be a pet.

 

[Matthew3590]

You should see the flame people get for humanely killing a chicken on youtube. Pretty embarrassing.

 

[Desert Rooster]

i dont understand why those videos are allowed on youtube

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[HollyBird24]

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They didn't make much of a change. If they go to a different supplier they get the same, as that is the picture of commercial, conventional egg production in the U.S.

There were a few bad things shown, the most egregious being workers throwing live birds or one of the workers swinging a bird around over his head. The rest is neither here nor there. Cages? Debatable, everybody knows that they are used. Beak trimming? Also debatable. Filth? Maybe, maybe not.

I just watched the 20/20 report this evening with my 21 year old son. He commented how horrible that was. I asked him whether he felt we did a good job with our 2500 hens. He said we do much better than that, no comparison whatsoever... I then pointed out to him that we have birds that die and that I have to pick up carcasses. We always have rodents that we work to control. There are times when the flies get bad. There are times that I have to cull sick birds. I put the carcasses into our compost pile as well as carcasses from 100's of birds that we have slaughtered for dinner and compost them into fertilizer, so there are areas of our garden and farm that are littered with chicken bones from spreading finished compost.

Give somebody a camera and let them selectively film what I just described, compile it into a montage with some sad music, and they can make it look like a horror show.

 

[Matthew3590]

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Teaching how to kill chickens?

 

[HollyBird24]

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Why shouldn't they be? When I was first learning how to kill and butcher a chicken I found those videos extreamily helpful. Its much easier to learn something when you can see it as opposed to reading it on some website.