Would you eat an inhumane slaughtered chicken?

[Jennifer Cappi Williams]

I am a vegetarian. I eat eggs ONLY from my pet hens. Though before I had my hens, I would not eat eggs from any source either because they grossed me out but after having pet chickens and a SURPLUS of eggs...I decided to start cooking eggs and now they provide me the extra protein I do need and with them, I can guarantee these eggs are from a humane source.

 

[BuffOrps32]

I prefer to raise my own chickens. The way these birds are handled strongly upsets me and perhaps some of us here could start something to give them at least some rights. It's not right what is being done and I believe I can safely say no one here could do this.
#ChickenRights

 

[BuffOrpington567]

This certainly is the most likely place to find good store bought meats. They know the farms they come from, but I don't see any evidence of exactly in what humane conditions they are raised. My husband actually worked on a chicken farm in England for many years raising them under what was considered humane conditions. They would let them out of the nests in the morning but never outdoors. They milled around on the warehouse floor barely able to move as they ate. If a chicken was injured it was tossed in the trash barrel still alive. Because they were not made to stay in a locked nest for their entire lives they were labeled as humanely raised chicken. I also don't see anything about the slaughter process except that they are stunned and no prayers are spoken. All that being said, as far as GROCERY store meats." At least ur not surrporting inhumane companies like halal

 

[BuffOrpington567]

I am a vegetarian. I eat eggs ONLY from my pet hens. Though before I had my hens, I would not eat eggs from any source either because they grossed me out but after having pet chickens and a SURPLUS of eggs...I decided to start cooking eggs and now they provide me the extra protein I do need and with them, I can guarantee these eggs are from a humane source.

Good for u

 

[Shadowfire]

Humanely raised chicken meat is better for you too- so is farm/grass-fed beef. It's a terrible fast that up to 50% of the diet of young meat cows can be compensated with bubble gum still in the wrapper, and a lot of what's in the dog food you buy is chicken poop and bedding scraped off the floor.

 

[BuffOrpington567]

Please can we keep this thread active as long as possible so we can spread awarness #chickenrights

 

[BuffOrpington567]

Like if your with #chickenrights

 

[aart]

Check out the video in this post.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/poultry-evisceration-tools.1284287/
Birds are killed before being bleed out....does this seem more humane to you?

@BuffOrpington567 did you watch this video...curious if you think it's a humane process.

 

[Cryss]

@BuffOrpington567 did you watch this video...curious if you think it's a humane process.

 

[ChocolateMouse]

Nuh-uh. At chicken 'rights' I draw the line. Since we are trying to 'educate' people here and 'spread the word' after all...

Welfare, sure. Living things deserve to be treated well. All of them. Welfare deals with quality of life... Food, housing, water, treatment for injury or disease, gentle handling, painless death, etc. Animal welfare supposes a quality of life.

Animal 'rights' is a different beast. Rights supposed inalienable rights as desired and established as autonomous creatures. Animal rights is often in antithesis to animal welfare.

Right suggests an inalienable autonomy that animals do not have, nor should they. You cannot own something with rights. Even children in their limited understanding have rights as assigned and defended by the state.
You cannot own a dog if the dog has rights. You cannot eat a chicken that has rights. Animal rights is in antithesis to all animal ownership. Even the biggest supporters and advocated for animal rights acknowledge this. Groups like PETA who support animal rights openly make their mission statement clear:
"We believe that it would have been in the animals' best interests if the institution of “pet keeping”—i.e., breeding animals to be kept and regarded as “pets”—never existed." - PETA
(Please note that these organizations often believe this so strongly that they often advocate for the death of animals before ownership and act on these beliefs.)

This is not acceptable. Ownership of animals is a two-way street. Both parties benefit, ultimately. Animals often gain a genetic diversity, a secure population and a quality of life unattainable in the wild. Humans gain the benefits that the animals bring - food, companionship, work, etc.
To suggest that animals cannot be owned is to suggest that they must be wild. To suggest that all animals be wild is to suggest that every prey be mercilessly taken down by predators and begun to be eaten while they are still alive. To suggest that all animals be wild is to suggest that injuries go untreated and result in a long painful death. To be wild is to starve in the winter, glut yourself in the summer, live in fear of predation or where your next meal comes from. Life in the wild is unkind and uncertain and the ONLY option for animals with rights.

Indeed, giving 'rights' to dogs, cows, domestic chickens and more is to ultimately subject those species to genocide. To be unowned is death for many of those animals. They literally evolved exclusively to live with us and under our care.

So since you're busy 'educating' people, you may want to consider WHAT you are trying to educate people ON.
Quality of life for domestic animals?
Or some misguided agenda that says a farm life is more cruel for a cow than death itself?

Cause one of those is going to fly on a website full of pet and livestock owners, who enjoy and love and have a mutual benefit with their animals, much better than the other. :T
(Not that we didn't totally see this sort of moralistic posturing hashtag coming from this post.)