Der Final Solution for McChickens?
Posted on 12/31/2004 6:38:50 AM PST by The Teen Conservative
Animal rights group's McWin
AFP
January 01, 2005
CHICAGO: McDonald's is considering forcing its chicken suppliers to use a new, more humane slaughter method following a proposal by an animal rights group that holds McDonald's shares.
The company is doing a feasibility study into requiring suppliers to switch to controlled-atmosphere killing (CAK), a technique championed by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.
"This is a study we've been working on for a while," McDonald's director of social responsibility Bob Langert said. "It's a fairly new method ... there is some use of it in Europe, but not yet in North America, so we want to know more about it." The company revealed it was examining CAK after PETA submitted a shareholder proposal for a study on whether to make the method mandatory for McDonald's suppliers.
PETA, which buys stock in companies as part of its strategy, holds 199 shares in McDonald's. The group has had some success with McDonald's, persuading the company to improve slaughter conditions for cows and pigs and stop using egg suppliers that starve chickens for two weeks to shock the birds' bodies into another laying cycle.
"McDonald's eliminated some major abuses three years ago, but it must not turn a blind eye to the horrific abuse of chickens at slaughter," PETA spokesman Bruce Friedrich said.
"Currently, almost all chickens are hung upside-down with their legs snapped into metal shackles, which often breaks their bones," the group said in a statement.
"Many are still fully conscious when their throats are slit and when they are immersed in scalding-hot water for feather removal."
With CAK, the chickens' oxygen is slowly replaced with argon or nitrogen, putting the birds to sleep quickly and painlessly, he said.
"100,000+ dead in a tsunami and these guys are worried about chickens?"
Oh no, I assure you these damnable freaky rat-bastards are CELEBRATING the deaths of the tsunami victims since dead people use less resources, create less greenhouse gases, and etc.
PETA is a Communist front organization - a branch of the Green Party, which itself diverged from the CPUSA in 1947/1948.
Best thing you can do with these people (where legal, of course) is shoot them dead as they commit their crimes of burglary, theft, arson, and other acts of terrorism.
They don't care about animals, it's just a front for imposing global Communism on free people.
Death to them all.
they have the proverbial chicken beak under the tent...
"Don't kid yourself. PETA's agenda is forced veganism on the population brought about by increasing the price of meat to the point that is is no longer affordable."
You nailed it. Good on you.
Good post - you're right. They hypocrisy is overwhelming. I'm sure they're all wearing leather shoes, and carrying briefcases and handbags made from animal skin.
A very interesting book.
Well you must not be conservative enough. Or obviously you are a vegetarian wussy.
< /typical FR reply>
Wow. The same attitude of those who want to keep allowing illegals into this country to work on farms.
I'm sorry you missed my point. I didn't make my self clear. The cost of what ever gas they use is what I was referring to. I don't want illegals in the country either.
Yes but illegal lovers give the same whine line about having to pay more for produce without the illegals. We see countless threads about how the economy is getting better, so it's not as though people should be hurting over paying a bit more for produce and other foods, right?
I'll pay more for produce handled by legal citizens and won't have a problem with that. I don't want to pay more for a McD's chicken sandwich because they are gassing the chickens when they can be dispatched with a hatchet for less.
Oops.....dispatched by a legal citizen for less!
Well, if we're going to eat 'em, we might as well be nice to 'em....
They'll kiss the chickens to death.
Der Final Solution for McChickens?
See my post #20 and the posts of a few others. Don't you see, you are just not a tough guy like them. To them, any sensitivity for any reason shows weakness, I suppose.
126,000+ unborn babies are murdered every day and all these Leftist do-gooders care about are chickens. I hardly expect them to get excited about the 100,000+ dead in the tsunami region.
Hell, Leftists get more bent out of shape over a boiled lobster than they do about the people butchered under Saddam's regime...
Any pro-life person should have some compassion toward animals. Just looking at your own dog, it is pretty obvious it can feel joy -- and pain. As an owner of two exotic birds, I can tell you they aren't stupid, that they interact with humans in advanced ways, and have been demonstrated to have the learning power of 2-year olds.
Jeremy Bentham, a classic philospher, even promoted humane treatment of animals, and felt they should have limited rights. The issue has been debated for centuries, it is not a "PETA" invention.
A civilized person, I think, should have a consistent position on the issue of respecting life, and that should include being "pro-life" and having an interest in humane treatment of animals, even if you are not willing to go all the way to adopting a vegetarian diet (as I've done).
Yeah, I'm an NRA member -- but I don't recreationally hunt, though that's your legal right.
To gleefully discuss ending animals lives in a cruel and extremely painful way as I've occasionally seen on FR threads is pretty sick and juvenile.
I think Conservatives are better than that.
OK, that's my two cents.
agree. ..Like what are the chickens going to say, "Cluck, Cluck.."
So when and how did we determine that meat, and cheap meat but good cuts, was a right and should be cheap enough to have every dinner (and plenty of it)?
This is how it is connected to the illegal alien thing: Americans have also decided they have the right to cheap produce. Strawberries in January, lettuce in November, etc., all for as little as it would be in June.
We seem to have a weird sense of entitlement going on in this country.
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