Good
for the Corporate Goose
 In
case it wasn't clear, yes, today's 'toon
describes how the U.S. poultry industry
kills
its chickens. The electric bath is
supposed to render
chickens immobile, though not insensate,
which means
they
experience
their grisly deaths while perfectly conscious.
As a bonus, the struggling
of the birds during handling results in
the spread of feces and vomit, not to mention
resulting in injury
to workers.
In the U.S. that's seven billion
chickens a year, and if the technique is
good enough for animals it should be good
enough
for condemned human criminal scum, right?
Right?
(Technical note: The "37 seconds" mentioned
in the 'toon is just an estimate, but twenty
millon chickens are slaughtered every day
over
a period of 86,400 seconds. You do
the math.)
If it makes you feel any better other countries,
the UK in particular, employ a method called
"controlled
atmosphere killing",
or CAK for killing its chickens.
Before processing begins they're
placed in chambers flooded with carbon
dioxide
and thus die painlessly. The result is
a safer, more sanitary, and humane method
of processing animals.
Does this cartoon give you pause for dietary
consideration? I hope so, if for no other
reason than to save
water as it takes 300
gallons to produce one pound of
chicken. (Beef requires 1900 gallons per
pound.) This is valuable information,
especially for people living in states
like California which is estimated to have
but
one year
of water
left. NASA
said so. Switching
to a vegetarian diet could save 90% of
the water otherwise allocated for meat
production. And
California raises a LOT of animals for
the dinner table.
A final note: Chickens raised for processing
are not protected by any federal law
as they're considered no less a commodity
than a lump of coal or a sack of potatoes,
and no laws will be passed to change the
current inhumane for obvious, lobbyist-related
reasons. The only way
to reduce these cruel slaughter practices
is to eat less meat. You can do it.
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reports that some visitors are unable to
access this site
through the home page. From what I can
tell an anti-virus program called Avast
thinks a commom Refresh I use on the home
page
is a scammy function when, in reality,
it's just the kludgy way I make my Comment
sections work.
Sigh.
The obvious solution is
to buy a Mac but for the rest of you poor,
trojan-besotted
bastards I suggest clicking here for instructions
on fixing the problem.
=Lefty=
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