Hard to Watch but Good to Talk About

[superflyer]

I volunteer with Mercy for Animals a group that does outstanding work
helping factory farmed birds. Video has been posted of undercover hatchery investigations. If you can take it please watch and pass along.

http://www.mercyforanimals.org/hatchery/

http://www.mercyforanimals.org

[Trees Gray]

Originally Posted by spirit wings

This thread needed to be started in the News & Advocacy thread, It needs to be moved to the appropriate place.

DONE!......................

[Becca199212]

That is very sad, very disturbing. I do agree with much of what their saying, are they PETA affiliated? I think most people can watch a video like that then go away and eat a chicken or an egg and not consider where it came from.
Someone posted PETAs meet your meat video on here some time ago- when discussing using pigeons as meat- that was when it dawned on me that the chicken on my plate was the chicken at the farm and I haven't been able to eat anything animal based since then. I think alot of people have the ability to completely detach themselves, the rest of my family saw the same video as I did only it didn't effect them in the same way, I suppose it depends on the person and their individual morals.

[Crazy Pete]

That was to much I couldn't watch.
Dave

[Mindy]

I don't condemn hunters, but I want them to eat what they kill. I came across about 50 candian geese last year and the only thing they took off of them is the breast meat and then they tossed them on the edge of this water canal. Couldn't even dispose of them properly. I also know hunters that just kill the geese just to get a band off them so they can make a necklace. NOW THAT IS OUTRAGEOUS!! I made a big stink and he did lose his hunting license for several years, but he has them back this year. I just feel sorry for all the animals. But I would have to say I'm one of those hyprocrites, unfortunately, I blame my parents, I have tried several times to quit eating meat. If I had to kill for my own food then I know I could not kill them and then I would be a vegetarian. But its already dead in the stores. I'm sorry to say.

Fbirdie82: I love the work that you do. you go girl!! min

[Claudia]

I did not watch it as I have seen enough of them to invision it. I used to be a hunter. I always ate all of what I shot. I was hungry and I fed my family this way. I no longer hunt but don't mind people who do as long as they eat what they shot.

I do like meat eggs and milk. I am always looking for products that came from humainly treated animals. I buy what I call "happy chicken eggs", happy animal meat. It always costs more, but I am no longer hungry and can afford to buy it. It is hard to find and I'm never sure if I am being taken, but I do it anyway. I justify it by thinking that the animal would not have been born if it were not going to be eaten. It was bred and born as food. Maybe a short happy life and being humainly treated is better than never being born at all. I am always surprised how many people think that I am spending too much and thinking about the treatment too much. That I have too much empathy. Maybe I do but it makes me feel better.

Claudia

[Columba livia!]

Sad video. I watched the first one. I respect both vegitarians and meat eaters out there. I myself am somewhere in the middle. I eat meat, but because I am a bit a bird lover I refuse poltry. Any way, there has to be a more humane way to raise poltry than they are doing in the first video. I never knew they killed the males. Thank you for illuminating that for me. just another reason for me to keep not eating chicken.

[Mindy]

I have NINE ROOSTERS. With only 11 hens. I would never kill my roosters, but my life is not easy with them. I let 6 of them run free and they all go to there own little dog house that is in a pen for there safety at night. To get to all of them to go in there own dog houses was not easy, it was a lot of work. Well it wasn't that hard, about a week of going out there right at dusk to show them where I wanted them. It was such a joy to see everyone in there homes. Out of 9 chicks last year 7 of them were roosters. Why couldn't 7 be hens!!! I have one rooster that I bring inside when it gets cold because he is really old like 9 years old. Poor guy, he has a mate that doesn't have any feathers, born that way, so she comes inside also. It is sad that the males get "trashed". As long as you don't give them hens they will get along with one another once someone is the "Chief". min

[Columba livia!]

yeah, we can't keep roosters anymore in dallas, but we still have 3 hens. ofcourse, they are just pets.

[Mindy]

Columbia, if you keep you rooster locked up in the dark until a reasonable hour of the morning, you could probably keep one. Just a thought. That is what a friend of mine does that lives in town. He catches him everynight, takes him in the garage in a dog crate and covers it up and then lets him come out at around 9:00 am. And when he takes a vacation, the rooster comes to my house and I rooster sit. min

[Columba livia!]

yeah, but I don't really wan't one any way .

[Mindy]

Most people don't, thats why they go in the trash, so sad. I would have to say I wouldn't have 9 roosters if I had to go buy them. But since they hatch from my loft they are keepers. lets just say, I don't allow any babies anymore. I'll go buy them first. Because I CAN'T have anymore rooster. They live probably twice as long as my hens do.

[Southwing]

Raised on a farm and have worked in one of the biggest egg laying farms in the U.S. I see nothing wrong.

Southwing/MidWest/EX-Chicken Farmer

[Columba livia!]

im sorry to hear that.

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