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An undercover news report shows chickens awaiting slaughter routinely have their wings and legs broken, are not killed by the proper procedure and end up being scalded alive in a pot of boiling water, that they should have already been dead before being put into. This is awful. I cried after reading the details.
I was not always vegetarian as I am now . I did eat chickens. It is okay to kill animals for food but it is not okay to be cruel .They deserve a kind death not a death like that.
Here where I live they have just passed a new measure allowing urban chickens to be raised in a limited basis. I have met chickens in petting zoos and flea market pet shops that are sweet . I have seen cute baby chicks that are curious and friendly. They do not deserve this.
just the process of raising eggs in mass, then sexing them and shipping them off to be either meat or egg bearing chicks is enough to turn me off of chicken. I would think there are abuses in all slaughter houses as well.
Is it happening in just one place or multiple places?
If it's just one place, I will make an attempt to find out where the chicken I buy comes from.
Unfortunately the report says the abuse is the industry standard. I would think that small humanely run family farms would be better than slaughterhouses but I do not know for sure.
Meanwhile back in the city,,,there are homeless people who would much prefer not going to sleep in an alley hungry.
Did you know that if everyone on earth became a vegetarian there would be enough food to feed every single man, woman, and child, every person on earth and nobody would ever starve? Did you know that much of our food that could be given directly to people is used instead to feed farm animals? One book that convinced me was Diet For A New America by John Robbins.
"A simultaneous problem is that meat production is also incredibly energy inefficient. We feed far more calories to cattle in the form of grain than we consume from their flesh. In a world where hundreds of millions of people go hungry, we snatch food from the mouths of starving babies and feed it to plump beasts."
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