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ac@apmaths.uwo.ca (alka chandna) writes:

>I would suggest that you open your eyes a little to try and understand what a 
>chicken is all about.  Blindly accepting the notion that chickens are dumb 
>animals that operate as automata is precisely that.  You may mock my ideas 
>by referring to them as being "sooo moral", but at least i've arrived at my 
>ideas by subjecting myself to scenarios which challenged aspects of my 
>upbringing and the indoctrination of the status quo.  I wonder if you can 
>say as much about your *thinking* (not condescending: thinking) on the issue.

Let me insert an informed opinion.  I have raised chickens.  They are
literally too stupid to fly away from dogs, or to come in out of a
hail storm.  Chickens are Dumb with a capital D.  You do them a
service by keeping them in a temperature controlled, predator free
environ with lots of food.  Food and sex is all that motivates them.
Perdue chicks get plenty of both.

>why don't *you* grow up.  to say that a choice between a shitty job and 
>unemployment is a choice is patently false.  there is such a thing as a 
>metaphorical gun (Frances Moore Lappe wrote a most excellent book on this 
>topic - the title, if I recall, is "Rediscovering America's Values" - and in 
>this she addresses this notion of the phantom nature of many so-called 
>choices).

Perhaps you should take this to alt.civil-liberties where they
discuss such things at length?  surely this is not the forum...

>Believe it or not, animals *do* suffer; they are not inanimate machinery.  

A good way to insure the future suffering of Perdue chickens is to
release them to "freely range," I assure you.  Ever watch a dog tear
a chicken apart?  They aren't decent enough to kill them before
plucking them, you know.

-jennifer

PS- I'm a vegitarian.  Not because it's healthy, or because I think
    comercially raised meat suffers more while alive than "free
    ranging" meat or sedentary broccoli. Just because meat tastes
    nasty.

PPS- You should go read news.announce.newusers' discussion on
     spelling and grammar flames.