Err, did you say you particpated in those dangling chickens?
Chuckle.
Hmm.....about those turtles. I really don’t know how they’re slaughterd, but I’ve have to admit that bouncing nickles off their heads probably isn’t part of it.
Got me on that one.
FYI Chinese coins are surprisingly light, much lighter than nickels due to a different metal content. The pennies are made out of aluminum and higher denomination coins are brass. As I understand it, you aren’t supposed to throw coins at turtle’s heads, but rather throw and balance them on their shells. It’s considered good luck, like throwing coins in a pond.
Consider for a minute the poultry industry. Millions of chickens are kept immobile in tiny pens their entire lives and force fed and injected with a slew of anti-biotics and drug cocktails and then non-chalantly slaughtered via mechanized butchering devices that can probably decapitate hundreds of birds a minute. Not exactly club med but some people seem to get their panties in a wad because someone threw a live chicken in a lion pen and they consider that cruel. It’s probably not very nice to tease the poor lions so before feeding them, but to whine about it is pretty ridiculous. It’s generally true that Americans are incredibly hypocritical about what they eat, preferring their food to generally not resemble food at all, or at least to not resemble what it came from.
I’ve worked in chicken houses, not plants, but I’ve been in them (don’t eat the potted meat). I didn’t see any chickens getting dangled “for jollies”... I could care less if the lions were fed live chickens. I don’t dig the way the chickens are dangled “for jollies”. Teasing both lions and chickens in order to prolong bloodsport is wrong. What do you think of how the bear cages were described?
Freegards