[Diana in Wisconsin]

Oh, Man! What a bunch of bleeding heart hippies! If you can’t stand the heat...get out of the chicken coop!

All the more reason this area is ripe for the pickin’ for my free-range, organically raised eggs from cage-free, happy hens! I’m so HAPPY to make a buck off of these dopes. I can sell a 39-cent dozen of eggs for $2 and up! *SMIRK*

For further edification, I suggest the documentary: “The Natural History of the Chicken.” You can get it through your library. It’s very good.

[Fairview]

generally the chicks were fed into a vacuum tube that had them hit a plate before they went into the grinder so they would be stunned and unconscious prior to death. The practice is called maceration and, when administered properly, is considered humane by the standards established by the AVMA.

I'm a farm girl and pretty realistic about what has to happen when you're raising animals for food. It's a business, not a game or a Disney movie. But the above is too much. This goes beyond the pale. If we are going to kill and eat animals, we have to do it in a decent way, and feeding live chicks into a grinder is not decent.