The Dogmother Posted November 6, 2007 Share Posted November 6, 2007 The 'moral debt' of some people's shopping trollies appalls me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chocolatedog Posted November 6, 2007 Share Posted November 6, 2007 I also found a horrible article from a year ago about broiler birds - it made me feel sick...... so cruel and inhumane..... (type chickens into google images and look for the daily mail one - it has a bigger picture on the left and 6 smaller ones with text underneath each one - for anyone who feels strong enough to look.......I didn't want to just type the link in......) Apologies if it's old news.....it's the first time I've seen it..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted November 6, 2007 Share Posted November 6, 2007 I also found a horrible article from a year ago about broiler birds - it made me feel sick...... so cruel and inhumane..... (type chickens into google images and look for the daily mail one - it has a bigger picture on the left and 6 smaller ones with text underneath each one - for anyone who feels strong enough to look.......I didn't want to just type the link in......) Apologies if it's old news.....it's the first time I've seen it..... have a look at www.chickenout.tv and sign their petition, it's head by Hugh Fearnly Whittingstall Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
menagerie Posted November 6, 2007 Share Posted November 6, 2007 I think there is a place for things like this. I used to buy battery eggs when I left home and really thought I couldn't afford it, although I am usually quite 'ethical' (now much more so). I stopped buying them on taste grounds as much as anything else, they always tasted fishy and made me feel sick. Free range ones are actually nice. I didn't know about the bhwt until I started keeping chickens, which I moved onto after getting into the allotment thing and those types of people and websites. Since I got my hens I have seen pics of other people's liberated rescue hens and have been utterly appalled. I wasn't aware before quite how horrific it is and feel terrible about ever buying battery eggs or allowign any of my friends or family to do that, or buying non free range egg sandwiches etc in shops. I think there's a media and industry conspiracy to portray hens as stupid and not worth treating well. Most people have never met a hen in any detail (I hadn't until I got mine) and won't know that they are intelligent, chatty, funny, entertaining, bossy, individual, capable of learning and being sociable. I think the more people know what a 'normal' hen should be like the more they will reject battery eggs. You could almost have an ad with normal funny chickens with feathers doing their normal things and then a bit at the bottom saying that you could never put it into a tiny cage and not let it run round kicking things and pecking stuff..... sorry to ramble on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dogmother Posted November 6, 2007 Share Posted November 6, 2007 As you've said menagerie, it's all about education.. I've had half the neighbourhood and their children round to stroke the girls, we've been to Brownies and to school. One thing I can guarantee is that they always remember the chicken they held. I hand out BHWT leaftets and go for the gentle education approach. It's two years since I took three of the hens into Rosie's class, and some of the children still ask after them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christian Posted November 6, 2007 Share Posted November 6, 2007 I think there's a media and industry conspiracy to portray hens as stupid and not worth treating well. Most people have never met a hen in any detail (I hadn't until I got mine) and won't know that they are intelligent, chatty, funny, entertaining, bossy, individual, capable of learning and being sociable. I think the more people know what a 'normal' hen should be like the more they will reject battery eggs. You could almost have an ad with normal funny chickens with feathers doing their normal things and then a bit at the bottom saying that you could never put it into a tiny cage and not let it run round kicking things and pecking stuff..... sorry to ramble on. Such an eloquent post. Thank you! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted November 6, 2007 Share Posted November 6, 2007 do you remember those ads that portrayed people who worked in call centres as chickens? I worked in a call centre, it was so awful it aggravated a medical condition I have (heart problem) I felt like a battery chicken! Spare a thought when you're venting your spleen at call centre people on the end of the phone There should be a Call Centre Worker Welfare Trust, set us free!!!! Anyway, there's no way I'm going back, I'm living a free life with my girls! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
