Used to have a 'lil girlfriend who's family own a chicken farm. She often talked about "getting the Tyson check." Wasn't pleasant dinner conversation to hear her talk of how when she was a toddler how proficient she became at "debeaking" chicks.
A few decades ago a Tyson processing plant in Hamlet, NC made national news when a hydraulic line burst and caused a fire. Several employees (mostly Hispanic, some illegal) were burnt alive in the fire because the emergency exits had been chained closed. Seems the plant management had done that to prevent employee theft of some of the processed chicken. > From: Jim Cathey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: Mercedes Discussion List <mercedes@okiebenz.com> > Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2008 21:18:46 -0800 > To: Mercedes Discussion List <mercedes@okiebenz.com> > Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT: Chickens > >> Store chickens are not happy chickens. They are more like crack >> whore chickens forced to pop out eggs under duress. > > My father-in-law was general manager (now retired) at Wilcox > Farms, a family-owned crack-hen-whore outfit that supplies > milk and eggs to Costco here in WA. I've been on the tour. > No duress or force is applied. Spent hens go to Campbell's. > > One of his favorite stories about how smart chickens are is > from once when they were inoculating chickens. Easy way was > to move the chicken one cage over as you went down the line. > That way you didn't forget where you left off. After they > did this the chickens all stopped laying, etc. Turns out > they were thirsting to death. Couldn't figure out that the > water was now on the other side of the cage. (Two spigots > out of a waterer at the corner of every other cage.) They > shifted the chickens back over one cage and all was well > again. > > -- Jim > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ > For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
