There's alot of free meat out there

[Cryss]

I think you might want to learn how to spell "butcher" before you start a business plan

Butchure...this is just the sign of a high quality meat processing service. Boo-CHER pronounced like the singer.

 

[Parront]

I agree with you! I just don't think life and death should be made a joke... It is a pretty big sacrifice that animals pay to feed us, and I believe they should be treated with a due amount of respect...

Hi! I love my birds, have all my life. I do love to eat them when they crow too much. But they have a good life up to that point. The same care I spend on my parrots was spent on my ducks, geese, and chickens. I know you love your birds, too. Button quail aren't food birds, neither are cockatiels which I raised for years! In Africa, where my African Grey originated, people eat African Grey Parrots. They are about the size of a dove, which people shoot in AZ. I would never eat Dylan, even if I was starving to death! But, other people might. (They might have to walk over my dead body first)!

 

[Ninjasquirrel]

Butchure...this is just the sign of a high quality meat processing service. Boo-CHER pronounced like the singer.

 

[Compost King]

I make jokes about killing chickens when I kill them for meat, its how I cope with it. Everyone has their different way with dealing with things that are stressful. Not sure if Traumatized is the right word for it, maybe its a bit strong but the first 3 hit me really hard and it took a lot out of me. Eventually through humor I was able to cope with it.

 

[BigBlueHen53]

Part of your OP struck me as funny, then I was shocked and sickened by the chopped head.... I was horrified and sickened again to learn that chickens are chopped up LIVE for pet food (really??? Gaaahhhh!!!!) -that's disgusting and so sad .... makes me want to make my cats and dog into vegetarians immediately, which is absurd.... sigh ... this is what I hate about being bipolar. But, I'm here to learn, not to judge, and I certainly learned a lot from this thread, so thanks.

 

[Peepsi]

Part of your OP struck me as funny, then I was shocked and sickened by the chopped head.... I was horrified and sickened again to learn that chickens are chopped up LIVE for pet food (really??? Gaaahhhh!!!!) -that's disgusting and so sad .... makes me want to make my cats and dog into vegetarians immediately, which is absurd.... sigh ... this is what I hate about being bipolar. But, I'm here to learn, not to judge, and I certainly learned a lot from this thread, so thanks.

As gross as that it, surprisingly, it's considered one of the most humane methods, because death happens almost instantly. And it's just male day-old chicks...they don't do it to grown chickens (or females chicks, which are valuable for eggs). Not only that, but the poultry industry is trying to better methods of sexing of chicks in the egg, so that they don't have to cull the males the day they're born (they'll get them before they're born). The industry is trying to end the practice of culling day-old male chicks via wood chipper, and hopes not be doing so any more in the next few years, despite what some hysterical animal-activists sites say.

 

[ButtonquailGirl14]

Hi! I love my birds, have all my life. I do love to eat them when they crow too much. But they have a good life up to that point. The same care I spend on my parrots was spent on my ducks, geese, and chickens. I know you love your birds, too. Button quail aren't food birds, neither are cockatiels which I raised for years! In Africa, where my African Grey originated, people eat African Grey Parrots. They are about the size of a dove, which people shoot in AZ. I would never eat Dylan, even if I was starving to death! But, other people might. (They might have to walk over my dead body first)!

I agree... I just really don't want to see a chopped off chicken head on the poster

Part of your OP struck me as funny, then I was shocked and sickened by the chopped head.... I was horrified and sickened again to learn that chickens are chopped up LIVE for pet food (really??? Gaaahhhh!!!!) -that's disgusting and so sad .... makes me want to make my cats and dog into vegetarians immediately, which is absurd.... sigh ... this is what I hate about being bipolar. But, I'm here to learn, not to judge, and I certainly learned a lot from this thread, so thanks.

X2 I thought it was ok, but a chopped off head just takes it too far.

 

[Parront]

I agree... I just really don't want to see a chopped off chicken head on the poster

X2 I thought it was ok, but a chopped off head just takes it too far.

Humor is sometimes over-the-top and tasteless. Exaggeration can serve a purpose to make you notice something you were taking for granted, for example, the chicken nuggets on our plates. My kids stopped eating chicken for quite a while after our first batch of Cornish-X "Went to Freezer Camp." (One daughter refused even chicken MC Nuggets, her favorite). We do try to gloss over the actual gross facts here on BYC all the time. I never heard of that phrase when I had those Cornish meat birds. There are no nice ways to kill.

 

[Kris5902]

Humor is sometimes over-the-top and tasteless. Exaggeration can serve a purpose to make you notice something you were taking for granted, for example, the chicken nuggets on our plates. My kids stopped eating chicken for quite a while after our first batch of Cornish-X "Went to Freezer Camp." (One daughter refused even chicken MC Nuggets, her favorite). We do try to gloss over the actual gross facts here on BYC all the time. I never heard of that phrase when I had those Cornish meat birds. There are no nice ways to kill.

I agree, and death is something that everyone who eats meat needs to be aware of and reconcile their own feelings about it. We raise beef cattle, lamb, and now chickens here for meat, so this is a part of my everyday existence now. Too many people are willing to consume meats bought at a grocery store with no thought to how the animal lived or died.

Yes, “There are no nice ways to kill.” But there are better ways for the animals to live, and better ways for them to die. Quickly and cleanly, after a good life in a natural setting, pampered and well fed, protected from the struggle for life against predators and starvation by their humans. They only have one “bad” day and it’s over quite quickly. That’s my ideal situation as a meat eater, and I’m quite proud to be able to participate in the food chain in a respectful manner.

I still occasionally make rude jokes about it too. My last batch of meat birds I had 7 that didn’t make it in to the processor quickly enough, they got to 13 weeks old as randy mis-behaving boys, and the last week of their lives I frequently joked about letting them free range with the raccoon who had been hanging around, or sending them to freezer camp myself if they didn’t settle down for the night and stop trying to mate each other.

 

[Parront]

I agree, and death is something that everyone who eats meat needs to be aware of and reconcile their own feelings about it. We raise beef cattle, lamb, and now chickens here for meat, so this is a part of my everyday existence now. Too many people are willing to consume meats bought at a grocery store with no thought to how the animal lived or died.

Yes, “There are no nice ways to kill.” But there are better ways for the animals to live, and better ways for them to die. Quickly and cleanly, after a good life in a natural setting, pampered and well fed, protected from the struggle for life against predators and starvation by their humans. They only have one “bad” day and it’s over quite quickly. That’s my ideal situation as a meat eater, and I’m quite proud to be able to participate in the food chain in a respectful manner.

I still occasionally make rude jokes about it too. My last batch of meat birds I had 7 that didn’t make it in to the processor quickly enough, they got to 13 weeks old as randy mis-behaving boys, and the last week of their lives I frequently joked about letting them free range with the raccoon who had been hanging around, or sending them to freezer camp myself if they didn’t settle down for the night and stop trying to mate each other.

I think as mentioned by the Compost King, we all practice some "gallows humor"! At least the birds have a good life with any BYC raiser, far better than an industrial Cornish cross does. Any method of killing that we do is better, also, even a gross chopping block!