oh no, they have HUGE eyes when they're still in the egg. trust me, there's nothing more horrifying to look down a dissecting scope and seeing a gargantuan eyeball staring back at you.

i can't find any good pics so this'll have to do.

You know who else could empathize chickens?

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You know who else could empathize chickens?

FTA: Somehow, fried eggs don't taste so good if you imagine the fetid barn in which they were laid

Until you put them into an omlet with cheese, bacon, and ham - then they're delicious.

Are you still f*cking that chicken Humane Society?

EABOD and DIAF

FirstNationalBastard: Cythraul: [upload.wikimedia.org image 250x305]

You know who else could empathize chickens?

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Chicken choker!

Hydra: FTA: Somehow, fried eggs don't taste so good if you imagine the fetid barn in which they were laid

Until you put them into an omlet with cheese, bacon, and ham - then they're delicious.

Man, this guy is farked if he thinks about the dirt and shiat that vegetables were grown in.

Hydra: FTA: Somehow, fried eggs don't taste so good if you imagine the fetid barn in which they were laid

Until you put them into an omlet with cheese, bacon, and ham - then they're delicious.

Hey, there's something coming out of that chicken's ass. I think I will eat it!

dready zim: [www.100megsfree3.com image 412x281]

Is that what a McNugget looks like before it's born?

dready zim: As someone who has recently taken in some refugees from a battery farm I can let you know the state these chickens are put into in order for you to get eggs slightly cheaper.

If you imagine the chicken you see in the meat counter prepared to eat but not as clean. Now add legs and a head and watch it walk about. There are some feathers near the head and wings but not anywhere else. The animal exists in a highly stressful environment and has had a life of constant pain being pecked, fed drugs to make them produce 2 eggs a day (about 5-10% bodyweight) Their skin is red from ammonia burns and they do not know about sun,rain or wind.

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enjoy your eggs. Really, enjoy them because if you are going to buy them from a battery farm then you damn well better enjoy them a farking lot.

I enjoy my walking meat.

dready zim: As someone who has recently taken in some refugees from a battery farm I can let you know the state these chickens are put into in order for you to get eggs slightly cheaper.

Do they make sneakers too?

dready zim: As someone who has recently taken in some refugees from a battery farm I can let you know the state these chickens are put into in order for you to get eggs slightly cheaper.

If you imagine the chicken you see in the meat counter prepared to eat but not as clean. Now add legs and a head and watch it walk about. There are some feathers near the head and wings but not anywhere else. The animal exists in a highly stressful environment and has had a life of constant pain being pecked, fed drugs to make them produce 2 eggs a day (about 5-10% bodyweight) Their skin is red from ammonia burns and they do not know about sun,rain or wind.

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enjoy your eggs. Really, enjoy them because if you are going to buy them from a battery farm then you damn well better enjoy them a farking lot.

While I completely agree with you, I think less people would actually give a shiat about the treatment of the chickens since they're eating them, and more about the rampant bacteria present in slaughterhouses. They're constantly covered in blood, guts, and shiat, of course people are going to get sick from eating meat produced in that environment.

dready zim: As someone who has recently taken in some refugees from a battery farm I can let you know the state these chickens are put into in order for you to get eggs slightly cheaper.

If you imagine the chicken you see in the meat counter prepared to eat but not as clean. Now add legs and a head and watch it walk about. There are some feathers near the head and wings but not anywhere else. The animal exists in a highly stressful environment and has had a life of constant pain being pecked, fed drugs to make them produce 2 eggs a day (about 5-10% bodyweight) Their skin is red from ammonia burns and they do not know about sun,rain or wind.

[www.100megsfree3.com image 412x281]

enjoy your eggs. Really, enjoy them because if you are going to buy them from a battery farm then you damn well better enjoy them a farking lot.


You are a f*cking liar. You lost me right there.

/30 yrs in the egg business and knows bullshiat when I read/hear it concerning these matters.

WTFDYW: dready zim: As someone who has recently taken in some refugees from a battery farm I can let you know the state these chickens are put into in order for you to get eggs slightly cheaper.

If you imagine the chicken you see in the meat counter prepared to eat but not as clean. Now add legs and a head and watch it walk about. There are some feathers near the head and wings but not anywhere else. The animal exists in a highly stressful environment and has had a life of constant pain being pecked, fed drugs to make them produce 2 eggs a day (about 5-10% bodyweight) Their skin is red from ammonia burns and they do not know about sun,rain or wind.

[www.100megsfree3.com image 412x281]

enjoy your eggs. Really, enjoy them because if you are going to buy them from a battery farm then you damn well better enjoy them a farking lot.


You are a f*cking liar. You lost me right there.

/30 yrs in the egg business and knows bullshiat when I read/hear it concerning these matters.

The freeps from the Egg Council must have gotten to him

Chicken make lousy house pet.

Pepperjack: My parents got chickens and ducks last Summer. We haven't bought an egg at a grocery store since they started laying due to the sheer abundance. These are pampered poultry. The chickens all have names. The ducks are harder to tell apart, but they are all free range. We have been reusing egg cartons for months. Anybody know a good place to get more?

I think what you need is a cock.

rudemix: I have a ne'er do well buddy who ended up doing time at a faciility in central California. The prison he was in farmed labor to a Tyson poultry place. Without boring anyone with stories about him, suffice to say, this was one mean cat who had done some mean things. Hard hearted at a minimum. The things he told me about the plant and it's processing were truly sick and affected him to the core of his busted, hardened heart. I can barely paraphrase him, and he was no philospher by any means, but it amounted to this; "I don't give a fark about a chicken. I don't give a fark about a million chickens mostly but this wasn't just about the chickens, it was about the species that could do this to another'. He described some pretty horrific stuff. Even taking a good portion of it with a grain of salt, what was left was pretty ugly to hear.

Chickens are sick. The things they do to each other are horrific. And try telling me it's because they're caged my experience is with free range chickens. I've seen chickens with holes in their back big enough you could see their guts. (the result of rough chicken sex.) And adolescent chickens with their butt pecked open big enough you could stick your fist in them. (Adult males thinning out the competition). Baby chicks will even sometimes peck each other to death. If they see blood and they will when their pin feathers come out they will go at it like the little velociraptors that they are. To get around this you raise baby chicks under a red heat lamp. Since everything is red they don't see the blood. He wasn't exaggerating he was probably holding stuff back to protect your innocence.

Pepperjack: We have been reusing egg cartons for months. Anybody know a good place to get more?

GQF manufacturing sells everything chicken.
Except the eggs.
Which is really a problem, it's damn hard to find fertile chicken eggs in bulk quantities. Unless you want to pay Charles River Labs $3.50 AN EGG. We now get ours from an Amish farm. If you, or your farm, would like to sell us fertile chicken eggs, we use about four dozen a week, every week. And we need them shipped and shipped without sitting around for days b/c they're less fertile the longer they sit.

dready zim: While I agree that meat animals should have better welfare, AFAIK meat and egg chickens are kept in different conditions

Different, yes. Better, no, which is why I made the comparison, but you're correct, I wasn't as clear as I should have been.

talulahgosh: oh no, they have HUGE eyes when they're still in the egg. trust me, there's nothing more horrifying to look down a dissecting scope and seeing a gargantuan eyeball staring back at you.

what, you've never had balut before?

plunk10: as someone who raises chickens, I'm upset with the way the industry handles the most widely slaughtered animals on the planet

They are also the most populated domesticated animal on the planet -- at least 25 billion chickens exist as of right now. That's billion. With a B.

Man's need for chicken as a staple food has ensured the bird indefinite survival, so from an evolutionary standpoint, getting domesticated was the smartest move the chicken ever made.

Attack one with your knife enough times, they well flock and peck at you until you die....
/then a fairy revives you if you bottled one...

dready zim: While I completely agree with you, I think less people would actually give a shiat about the treatment of the chickens since they're eating them, and more about the rampant bacteria present in slaughterhouses. They're constantly covered in blood, guts, and shiat, of course people are going to get sick from eating meat produced in that environment.

um, you do know chickens are naturally dirty and smelly right? they're animals. who don't groom themselves.
rampant bacteria in slaughterhouses? nope. if your chicken eggs have bacteria, the air sac will get larger (or you'll have bubbles outside of the air sac) and you know not to use it. otherwise, bacteria is not getting through the shell.
chickens also have this thing called a pecking order. that's a literal term.
and you won't get sick from bacteria on your chicken IF YOU COOK IT. are you eating raw chicken? you should stop that. that's gross even if it isn't contaminated.
we get our eggs covered in chicken shiat because guess where the egg comes out?
well, not right there, but close. i have yet to lick them, but i'll get back to you on that.
and you don't need to feed a chicken drugs to get it to lay eggs. maybe to lay more eggs, but seriously, if you have enough chickens you won't need to feed them drugs.
and believe me, those $3.50 eggs are NOT cheap, and from chickens who aren't given drugs.
eggs are also valuable in large quantities to produce vaccines like the flu vaccine, as well as for developmental research. so that means lots of chickens. if you would like to provide our lab with lots of eggs, feel free to email me.

dready zim: PanicAttack: dready zim: As someone who has recently taken in some refugees from a battery farm I can let you know the state these chickens are put into in order for you to get eggs slightly cheaper.

If you imagine the chicken you see in the meat counter prepared to eat but not as clean. Now add legs and a head and watch it walk about. There are some feathers near the head and wings but not anywhere else. The animal exists in a highly stressful environment and has had a life of constant pain being pecked, fed drugs to make them produce 2 eggs a day (about 5-10% bodyweight) Their skin is red from ammonia burns and they do not know about sun,rain or wind.

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enjoy your eggs. Really, enjoy them because if you are going to buy them from a battery farm then you damn well better enjoy them a farking lot.

While I completely agree with you, I think less people would actually give a shiat about the treatment of the chickens since they're eating them, and more about the rampant bacteria present in slaughterhouses. They're constantly covered in blood, guts, and shiat, of course people are going to get sick from eating meat produced in that environment.

While I agree that meat animals should have better welfare, AFAIK meat and egg chickens are kept in different conditions.WTFDYW: dready zim: As someone who has recently taken in some refugees from a battery farm I can let you know the state these chickens are put into in order for you to get eggs slightly cheaper.

If you imagine the chicken you see in the meat counter prepared to eat but not as clean. Now add legs and a head and watch it walk about. There are some feathers near the head and wings but not anywhere else. The animal exists in a highly stressful environment and has had a life of constant pain being pecked, fed drugs to make them produce 2 eggs a day (about 5-10% bodyweight) Their skin is red from ammonia burns and they do not know about sun,rain or wind.

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It is impossible for a chicken to make more than one egg a day. Actually it takes about 25.5 hours for an egg to form, so there's that for you. Go GIS for yourself as I'l not doing your homework for you. As for the lighting, the lights are not left on 24 hrs a day. the lights go on in the mornings to get them to kick started and laying. After the ycle is through the lights are off again. Rinse lather and repeat.

As far as the pecking goes, since there are far fewer birds per cage as of the last few years the stress is reduced dramatically and the pecking is hardly an issue anymore.

If there are any producers still around that have the conditions of decades ago, they won't be in business long. The Humane Society audits just about every producer out there as a requirement of most customers such as Target, Wal Mart, Land O Lakes, well... almost all major chains require these standards to be met. Not only do we get audited by the H.S., most major chain customers have independent 3rd party auditors check up on producers, most of the time without notice of arrival. "Hi, I'm Fred Smith from ABC consultants sent by XXX. Here's my credentials. May I have a look at some of your production facilities"?

So. There ya go if you think I'm trolling.

May I add, that the USDA and most State Dept. Of Agriculture also do audits? Thank you.

Pepperjack: Four dozen a week?? Wow. We don't really have a farm. It's just five hens and a rooster. There were a couple more, but an accident happened that my parent's two black labs know NOTHING about.

yeah, that's why it's hard to find eggs. and that's just one lab at one university. cornell used to raise their own chickens but they stopped. so now they're looking for a place too. as is the krull lab in st louis.
apparently this is not a good economy for egg producing. unless you enjoy forking over $42 per dozen, plus $47 shipping. our farm sells them for $5.50/dozen, $35 shipping. much much better.

Small beady eyes--I feel the same way about the Reverend Pat Robertson.

WTFDYW:

chickens naturally have a pecking order. even if they're free range. it's not about being in a cage.
and why would you want the lights on for 24 hours? don't they sleep like every other animal?
i'm not sure how it works for fertilized eggs when it comes to auditing. the chickens need to be around a rooster for that to happen and that's when the pecking order comes in. charles river makes pathogen free eggs, so they're obviously following health codes. the amish farm? i really don't know. but they do have a flock just for our lab and only a few others for themselves so i'm guessing they aren't jammed together.
would the health department audit an egg farm that doesn't use eggs for food? i have no idea what charles river does with the chickens when they rotate the flock, but i assume they aren't eating them.