Photos from outside a chicken slaughterhouse

halv
halv Posts: 716
edited January 2007 in A Moving Train
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These photos were taken in the back alley of a chicken slaughterhouse in Vancouver Canada Thursday night. They are a bit out of order, but the baby chicken you will see in some of the photos was found standing beside 8 garbage barrels in the alley after a day of slaughter. These barrels were full of dead chickens. It is common practice for these slaughterhouses to simply throw sick or underdevoloped chickens into the trash to either die of exposure, suffocation, or crushed at the rendering plant. I've heard that this happens all the time, but to come across this tiny defenseless creature shivering in the alley surrounded by blood and death....it broke my heart. She is now at my house nice and warm, eating and drinking, finally away from the life of abuse which is all she has known up until now. She will be going to a farm sanctuary tommorow.
The rest of the photos were all taken from the alley. I did not need to enter the facility to get these, so you can imagine what it's like in the rooms I couldn't see. This "production" facility sends there chicken products to stores like Safeway and KFC. This is the true face of the meat industry and only a small portion of the horrible violence and abuse that goes on so people can get their "protien", which they could also get without this carnage.
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  • miller8966
    miller8966 Posts: 1,450
    kind of makes me hungry......
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  • tara
    tara Posts: 293
    couldn't look at those pics, except for the first few of the little one you saved, thanks for doing that, makes me feel like i should go out and do something positive
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  • jlew24asu
    jlew24asu Posts: 10,118
    I feel like chicken tonight, like chicken tonight mmmmmmmm chicken.
  • halv
    halv Posts: 716
    jlew24asu wrote:
    I feel like chicken tonight, like chicken tonight mmmmmmmm chicken.

    And this is the reply from the guy questioning other people intelligence on other threads?!?
  • jlew24asu
    jlew24asu Posts: 10,118
    halv wrote:
    And this is the reply from the guy questioning other people intelligence on other threads?!?


    lighten up. you posted a story about chickens. what did you want to debate? not eating chickens because they are slaughtered? give me a break
  • Abookamongstthemany
    Abookamongstthemany Posts: 8,209
    halv wrote:
    And this is the reply from the guy questioning other people intelligence on other threads?!?


    I'm sorry that you're getting these useless and also heartless replies to something you took the time go out and do then put together to share with us. It's obvious that you care deeply about this subject and I find it completely rude and disrespectful to act as some people here feel the need to.
    If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.

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  • AngelofIndifference
    AngelofIndifference Posts: 89
    I think I am on the verge of becomming a vegetarian. The thought of how meat goes from barnyard to supermarket has been really making me sick to my stomach. I think if most of us were not raised to eat meat we wouldn't.
  • jlew24asu
    jlew24asu Posts: 10,118
    AngelofIndifference wrote:
    I think I am on the verge of becomming a vegetarian. The thought of how meat goes from barnyard to supermarket has been really making me sick to my stomach. I think if most of us were not raised to eat meat we wouldn't.


    I would
  • jlew24asu
    jlew24asu Posts: 10,118
    didnt you guys hear about the food chain? we are at the top
  • trappedinmyradio
    trappedinmyradio Posts: 1,189
    yes, the techniques needs to be changed...but, then, you have to consider the increased cost of both production and getting the product to the public...i like meat - i know what happens - i eat kosher and certified organic as a means to eliminate this stage of the process...but, i'm poor...when i have the money, i will do it more so. anyway, thanks for the pictures...but, this is not news.
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  • CorporateWhore
    CorporateWhore Posts: 1,890
    Halv?

    Humans for animal liberation and vegitarianism?

    Is that how it goes?

    My grandmother lived on a farm in Ireland and she grew up with cows, chickens, and pigs. Anytime someone starts up about animal rights, she's quick to inform them that chickens and cows are some of the stupidest animals in the Effing world.

    Like, you could set up a tiny ass fence and a cow won't even bother to try to jump over it, even though it could if it wanted to.

    Chickens are so "advanced" that when you chop their heads off, their bodies go running around without the head. Primitive.

    The point is: no you shouldn't wantonly and viciously kill animals and cause them pain on purpose. But, animals are fucking stupid. That's why they're animals and we're humans. We run the show and we can eat them.

    Animals have no rights except that which common decency procures for them.
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  • genie
    genie Posts: 2,222
    hey halv, thank you for doing a good work, and caring for chickens :) Hopefully other people will realise that this thread is meant to make us be aware of how badly chickens get treated.
  • CorporateWhore
    CorporateWhore Posts: 1,890
    jlew24asu wrote:
    didnt you guys hear about the food chain? we are at the top

    Haha, it's intuitive right?

    This is how far society has come: we now give human rights to non-humans. Great!
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  • genie
    genie Posts: 2,222
    CorporateWhore wrote:
    But, animals are fucking stupid. That's why they're animals and we're humans. We run the show and we can eat them.

    Animals have no rights except that which common decency procures for them.

    Not all animals are stupid. I think the reason why some people think that animals are stupid is because humans can't communicate with animals.
  • CorporateWhore
    CorporateWhore Posts: 1,890
    genie wrote:
    Not all animals are stupid. I think the reason why some people think that animals are stupid is because humans can't communicate with animals.

    And humans can't communicate with animals because animals aren't smart enough to communicate with us.

    :D
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  • genie
    genie Posts: 2,222
    CorporateWhore wrote:
    And humans can't communicate with animals because animals aren't smart enough to communicate with us.

    :D

    No, it's because we speak in different languages. Animals communicate with each other using sounds and signals. Same as people. It just that we don't know each others language.
  • CorporateWhore
    CorporateWhore Posts: 1,890
    genie wrote:
    No, it's because we speak in different languages. Animals communicate with each other using sounds and signals. Same as people. It just that we don't know each others language.

    Haha, are you kidding me?

    So if we could just figure out their languages, then we'd discover that the animals actually invented calculus first?
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    -Enoch Powell
  • jamhotgammon
    jamhotgammon Posts: 39
    genie wrote:
    Not all animals are stupid. I think the reason why some people think that animals are stupid is because humans can't communicate with animals.


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  • genie
    genie Posts: 2,222
    CorporateWhore wrote:
    Haha, are you kidding me?

    So if we could just figure out their languages, then we'd discover that the animals actually invented calculus first?

    ha,ha, no i'm serious.... well yeah animals haven't invented anything.....
    but don't you think that humans are animals who happened to be better evolved?
  • genie
    genie Posts: 2,222
    i think the problem with people is that we know we have a power over a lot things in this world, and we abuse that power. We tend to belittle other forms of life....

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