You can't get away from pictures shown on live television though Ode, and I have seen this when Bernard Matthews turkeys were all killed in case they had bird 'flu. I know that a lot of farmers look after their livestock, but I also know a lot that don't. I personally know of a small farmer that has been done on at least 35 counts of cruelty to his animals. It goes on, and I know that animals are cruel to one another: that's nature, and they *are* animals. I would have thought that we should be better than that though, but in a lot of cases, we aren't. Dee
-------Original Message------- From: Ode Coyote Date: 04/26/09 14:25:16 To: silver-list@eskimo.com Subject: Re: CS>the corpse thread...OT Compassion in World Farming has an agenda and will present it's literature as though it were the average 'norm' Those IN the industry and "know" their fellows and neighbors have a different POV. NC is [was?] world chicken central and the houses are tight, but quite well ventilated and not "packed"..and I've never heard of any de-beaking their birds or lopping off feet. I've never met a chicken or turkey farmer that didn't care about his birds Ode
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