Preaching to the choir... PICS

[Cetawin]

Lucky it was you behind them...first traffic light and I would have been out of my van and busting them loose.

 

[Bossroo]

I wish I had my camera so I could post the photo of what I saw... The big boys do NOT have the monopoly on the scene shown in the photo posted above. I was traveling on a highway , it was raining cats and dogs, I pulled into a gas station to refuel. There parked on the side of the restaurant was a pickup with cages tied down one on top of another just chuck full of RIR chickens soaked to the skin, shivering and 2 obviously dead. On the pickup door was their ranch sign XXX organic farms, and below, poultry raised with loving care the organic way. Sad !!!

 

[Le Canard de Barbarie]

The picture is deceptive. Those are shipping crates. Those broilers were raised in open floor barns, and put in these cages for shipping only.

Have you seen some of the pictures here of people raising their broilers in cramped chicken tractors? They live in them 24/7, and they spend their lives being able to move maybe 10 feet in one direction before hitting the wall.

 

[PoultryPedia]

I only very rarely buy chicken meat at the grocery and pretty much never order it at a restaurant because of the cruelties involved with most commercial chicken meat production.

The chickens don't even get a humane death, much less a humane life. The giving of their gift of life is not shown respect in how they are handled.

There is a lot of wasting of life, too. Many of the chickens suffer to death needlessly prior to slaughter because of disregard for them. They are not valued.

I do feel fine about eating chickens I believe have been treated humanely.

 

[Hillsvale]

As yucky as that picture seems.. I watched food inc the other night!! Disturbing doesn't cover my thoughts but it did increase my chick order!...

 

[foweler]

So what do we do about it?

As easy as it might seem to "rail for proper legislation" in all matters chicken, that would be the kneejerk reaction. It won't help but would rather be turned around in congress to make matters more beneficial to the large players like Foster Farms and Tyson by the time it was recorded as law.

The only vote you REALLY have is where you spend your money.

 

[Buster52]

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You can't be serious. Are you implying someone raising a few birds in an open air tractor that is sometimes moved several times daily where the birds get fresh air, sunshine, grass, and insects to eat is somehow worse than or equivalent to raising 10,000 birds in a single windowless building with no grass or sunshine for their entire lives?

So what do you keep your birds in?

 

[Buster52]

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Change the way you eat and organize in order to effect change in those around you.

 

[Le Canard de Barbarie]

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Dead serious.

 

[Buster52]

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You didn't answer my other question.

And here's another one. Do you raise and butcher your own meat birds, or do you buy them from the store?

I do free range my laying flock and my turkeys, but find it better to tractor my meat flock. I'd like to hear how that is worse than raising them in factory-farm style.