[FirstTomato]

The reality of life is that these creatures are food. However, I do agree that chickens are created with exceptional cruelty.

I would like to see improved methods of slaughter, etc. where the creatures we depend upon for food are treated as humanely as possible. I have seen trucks laden with chickens on the Eastern Shore of Maryland where half the chickens appear dead already from suffocation. And this presents a health hazard to humans because these dead chickens are probably not tossed out, but used for human consumption.

But it certainly does no good to attack the folks at a KFC who are simply trying to have dinner.

[vbmoneyspender]

What do you think is a better use of people's time, to protest how chickens are treated or how people are treated in places like Iraq, North Korea, Cuba, China, Vietnam, etc.?

[netmilsmom]

http://www.miketheheadlesschicken.org
If you think the way chicken we eat are treated cruelly, check out this website.

[Thoro]

The reality of life is that these creatures are food. However, I do agree that chickens are created with exceptional cruelty.

This is what shows the lack of logical thought where Peta is concerned(in most of the radical matters at least). Not only are these creatures food, but these creatures were created through thousands of years of purposeful artificial selection by us. They were designed to endure some "cruelty" to be a convenient food source.

Where health hazards are concerned, it only makes sense to treat chickens humanely. Not only for the chicken's sake, but for the sake of a better marketable product and a good tasting chicken dinner. I feel like chicken tonight, like chicken tonight!

[Old Professer]

My cousin showed me how to hypnotize a chicken about a hundred years ago - he put its head under its wing and gently rocked it to and fro and the set it carefully on the ground where it remained motionless until he nudged it with his foot.

No dumber foraging animal has succeeded in history and that only because it is fit to eat after much labor and its eggs are as nearly 100% nutritious as any food known.

I watched my 75 year-old grandmother tie an old hen to a clothesline and whack its head off with a butcher knife on a dead run to avoid getting spattered with the blood from its flailing neck; about 15 minutes later when Grandma had decided it was time, she eviscerated the beast and plunged into a huge pot of boiling water, then snatched it out, plopped down on a chair outside the kitchen door and plucked feathers and pin-feathers for the next 11/2 hours.

After all this, my nostrils alive with the stench, she smiled indulgently at my displeasure, rubbed the carcass with salt and pepper and put it on the stove to cook.

I ate a lot of bread, butter and drank a lot of milk that night.