I don't think it was too hard. I used to live with my uncle, a farmer, for a
year and he raised chickens. Not to the scale of these other farms but he had a
whole lot of them. They ran around the farm and I used to go out and feed them
every day. It was nice and they had a gread life. I imagine it is harder when
you are raising hundreds of thousands of them but I absolutly do not believe
they have to be tortured in any way. Evelyn
----- Original Message ----
From: GJC <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Friday, August 15, 2008 6:31:47 PM
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so how hard is it to raise chickens?
On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 3:31 PM, arlene weaver <arleneweaver2004@ yahoo.com>
wrote:
i agree with you evelyn
May God walk with you today.
arlene
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From: Evelyn Quintana <[EMAIL PROTECTED] com>
Subject: Re: [Chihuahuas] Was: Animal Kingdom's Odd Couples Now: Food Industry
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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
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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-
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"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
