Broiler Chicken suffering

RSPCA On line ^ | Just showed up on my machine | RSPCA 2001

[StACase]

The chick on the left is an egg-layer. The chick on the right is a meat chick or broiler, specially bred to grow much faster. After only four days the meat chick may already be developing bone and leg problems. By three weeks...

[StACase]

I've been trying to find the Gary Larson "Far Side" cartoon At the Boneless Chicken Ranch.
No luck though!

[SamAdams76]

Typical liberal nonsense. Liberals are always whining that people somewhere in the world are starving and that there's never enough food to go around. Then when we figure ways to grow food faster and better, so we can feed the entire world if we want to, they start whining about the plight of the animals.

The "life" of a typical chicken was never pleasant to begin with. Used to take 11 weeks to raise a chicken. Now we've cut that time to about five weeks. To me, we've cut the suffering by almost half!

[Cuttnhorse]

Chickens are funny critters. I had never been around them before I was cowboying on a ranch in Nevada and we had about a dozen layers. They were in a big pen and the darn blackbirds used to always swipe the corn from the pen and we had a couple of .22s around and would pop the blackbirds when we could. The blackbirds that would fall in the coop wouldn't make it to the second bounce until the chickens were on them. I always worried about tripping and falling in the coop...no telling what would have happened!!

[brewcrew]

My my my, you don't seem to be one bit concerned about the plight of these poor creatures do you!

I, for one, am very concerned about their plight. I am thankful that they grow up fast so they can be killed and moved to my dinner table instead of having to suffer the indignity of dying of natural causes.

Have mercy on a fryer - eat one today!

[StACase]

To me, we've cut the suffering by almost half!

I think you are in need of some sensitivity training :-)

[Born to Conserve]

The problem is all you people.
There are so many of you that will eat anything, 'they' (the bad guys) can produce crappy, sick food, and sell it!
If all of you would please stop eating, MY life would improve imeasurably.

But seriously, I am always willing to pay the extra 10-20% it costs to get the more carefully produced chicken, beef, eggs, whatever.

I'll still eat the crappy food if I have to, but I feel a little bad about it. There are huge 'lagoons' of pig crap down south so big, when they bust loose, they 'kill' entire rivers. In Arkansas, the heaps of chickens that die before they can be marketed are so big, the putrid runoff has contaminated the ground water. The cattle feed lots are totally disgusting! If you all knew a little more about the food you were eating, you would probably be willing to pay a bit more for the good stuff.

I think part of the problem is (guess who) the government. There are laws against saying anything criticle about a food industry. What's-her-name-the-fat-one-Oprah! said some bad stuff about the beef industry, and just about went to jail. I dont't want to ally myself with the likes of her, but we should have the freedom to know and teach the truth. If people can't stand to know where hot dogs come from, they shouldn't eat them. If they are too squeemish to learn how sickly the animals they eat are, they should be veggies.

(I think it's time to stick a happy pig and roast it, mmmmmmm.)

[SamAdams76]

I flunked out of sensitivity training. I am currently undergoing treatments for "compassion fatigue."

[Born to Conserve]

Every had "bug-fed-chicken-eggs"? Store bought eggs just plain suck. The crap they raise in those animal factories is garbage.

[Dan Day]

So... killing it would be a mercy killing, eh? Sounds good to me. Pass the barbecue sauce.

[Cicero]

Let's keep in mind that chickens that are fed all kinds of artificial chemicals and deprived of exercise aren't necessarily good for the folks who eat them, either. A free-range chicken tastes a lot better and is a lot healthier to eat. Your typical Tyson chicken barely has any taste at all, is pumped full of antibiotics, probably has as much cellulite as Hillary Rodham's legs, and can undermine your health.

These enviro-hippies aren't completely crazy.

[StACase]

There are huge 'lagoons' of pig crap down south so big, when they bust loose, they 'kill' entire rivers.
In Arkansas, the heaps of chickens that die before they can be marketed are so big, the putrid runoff has contaminated the ground water.

Good reason to have environmental laws, were they prosecuted?

Don't mean squat about the topic at hand though.

[Drew68]

Here ya' go:

[topsail]

I worked out of Yokohama for several years and noticed the same thing. The taste was a disappointment to say the least !

[Born to Conserve]

Justin Wilson -- the cajun cook. "cookin cheap" is the name of the "good old boys's" cooking show. Sometimes I wonder about their orientation, but of course, I'm paranoid about that.

[StACase]

Thanks, I owe you! Don't hold your breath though:-)

[brewcrew]

If you all knew a little more about the food you were eating,

That's why we cook 'em. Kills the bugs, ya know.

Of course, I live in an area where people routinely eat raw beef and onions on rye bread on special occasions, and I even indulge myself from time to time. Livin' on the edge, I guess.

The way I look at it is that the average age of mortality just keep getting older, so what's the harm if you enjoy it and it's nutritious?

[Tennessee_Bob]

Don't forget the other one...

[Cuttnhorse]

That's exactly right, the chickens we had were free-roaming types...we fed them a little but essentially they survived on their own; lots of bugs and whatever. We used to toss a big alfalfa plant in the coop and always claimed that was what made their eggs so orange-colored.
We also used to toss all the dinner scraps into the coop and I was amazed at what carnivores the little devils were.

[Fiddlstix]

Bump

[Born to Conserve]

Ever seen an unlucky mouse try to cross a chicken yard? Mice children have nightmares about Tyranosaurus Hen.