so how hard is it to raise chickens? On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 3:31 PM, arlene weaver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
> i agree with you evelyn > > May God walk with you today. > arlene > > --- On *Fri, 8/15/08, Evelyn Quintana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>* wrote: > > From: Evelyn Quintana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [Chihuahuas] Was: Animal Kingdom's Odd Couples Now: Food > Industry > To: [email protected] > Date: Friday, August 15, 2008, 3:01 PM > > I think that the fact they do this is such Sh*t and I really am so > frustrated with the whole thing. I actually agonize about these things and > for this reason I eat so little meat. It actually kills me that people do > not care about how other creatures feel. Like it doesn't matter. Humans are > SO arrogant to think that they are the only important beings on Earth and > that nothing else matter. SCOTTY, BEAM ME UP!!!!!! Evelyn > > ----- Original Message ---- > From: Mandy F. <[EMAIL PROTECTED] com> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ups.com > Sent: Friday, August 15, 2008 1:51:18 PM > Subject: Re: [Chihuahuas] Was: Animal Kingdom's Odd Couples Now: Food > Industry > > Labels such as "cage free", "free range" and even "all natural" are very > misleading. Cage free and free range make us think of happen little chicken > farms where chickens are free to roam through fields of grass... or > something like that. The reality is that cage free birds are instead housed > in barns filled with thousands of chickens. Their beaks are cut/burned to > remove the hook as a way to prevent the chickens from injuring each other. > The floor is covered in chicken poo. For the eggs/meat to be considered > free range all the farm has to do is provide a door from the barn leading to > an outside area. The door does not have to be opened for a certain number > of hours during the day nor does the area have to be a big sprawling field. > Usually it's just a small pen with a layer of chicken poo on the floor. > It's a nice idea, but as consumers we are being mislead with these labels. > I wish it was different. It's not fair to let the animals suffer, but I do > not know how the farming industry will ever be able to change. > -Amanda- > > > > > -- "I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason and intellect has intended us to forgo their use." --Galileo Galilei Glenda Poquita, Molly, Isabella, Chandler, Joy Joy and all the fosters and angels
