What will we think of broiler chickens and battery hens in 200 years time?
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Question by FairyBlessed: What will we think of broiler chickens and battery hens in 200 years time?
The awful behaviour of our forefathers treating people as slaves 200 years ago is rightly criticized today.
How will the public think about our policy of putting chickens in the completly unnatural huge crowded sheds, feeding them antibiotics for rapid growth, damaging their delicate bodies, and the caged hem torture we subject other creatures to in another 200 years time, if we humans are still here?
caged hen torture
What do you think? Answer below!
5 Responses to What will we think of broiler chickens and battery hens in 200 years time?
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I think there are lots of things that are accepted in society today that will cause horror in years to come. Our attitude towards gays, treating women as second class citizens when it comes to wages, probably eating meat at all. Perhaps we will have found a nutritional substitute by then, and the thought of electrically stunning animals and then slitting their throats will be abhorrent.
Dogsbody
November 5, 2011 at 7:05 am
Slavery and battery hens are completely different things.
The slaves were humans who could talk, think and feel.
The battery hens are just animals, meat produced for human consumption.
Humans have always eaten meat and animal products, until there’s an alternative we’ll continue to do so.
We’re the top animal, we’re that way because of years of evolution. Chickens are too weak and too stupid to complain, therefore they’ll always be bottom of the food chain.
Nick C
November 5, 2011 at 8:02 am
People care more about there own taste buds than they do morality.
“Vegetarian food leaves a deep impression on our nature. If the whole
world adopts vegetarianism, it can change the destiny of humankind.”
-Albert Einstein
“As long as there are slaughterhouses, there will be battlefields.” -Leo Tolstoy
“I have no doubt that it is a part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals.” -Henry Thoreau
“In all the round world of utopia there is no meat. There used to be. But now we cannot stand the thought of slaughterhouses. And in a population that is all educated and at about the same level of physical refinement, it is practically impossible to find anyone who will hew a dead ox or pig. We never settled the hygienic aspect of meat-eating at all. This other aspect decided us. I can still remember as a boy the rejoicings over the closing of the last slaughterhouse.” -H.G. Wells
“The earth affords a lavish supply of riches, of innocent foods, and
offers you banquets that involve no bloodshed or slaughter; only beasts
satisfy their hunger with flesh, and not even all of those, because
horses, cattle, and sheep live on grass. As long as men massacre
animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seeds of
murder and pain cannot reap joy and love.”
-Pythagoras
“The time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look on the murder of men.”
Leonardo da Vinci
“Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.”
Thomas Edison
vegan&proud
November 5, 2011 at 8:18 am
They are still with me, they occupy my space and fill my head with visions of the future that are bleak and fearful. I try to run, i try to escape, but, the corridors are endless and as i run away, i find myself in circles, always ending back at the point i originally started from. They tell me things that no-one should hear, they whisper things that terrify my darkened heart. They are my friends, they are my enemies. There is no turning back, i must follow the path that THEY have chosen for me.
joshuakane_uk
November 5, 2011 at 9:17 am
Can I plead with you all never to buy other then free range eggs or chicken. If I see you buying battery hen products I will be exceptionally rude to you. How can people put effort into banning hunting when this is thousands of times worse
Professor
November 5, 2011 at 9:52 am