Photos from outside a chicken slaughterhouse

genie

redrock wrote:

The native american way... respect for mother earth and all her creatures. We all (humans, animals & plants) have our place and purpose on earth and our lives are interlaced (though I'm not sure where the cockroaches fit in!).

I guess animals (including humans) and plants have evolved in the way they need to be able to survive. We just survive differently - no one specie is better than the other - just different.

Well said

Scubascott

Ahnimus wrote:

I watched a lecture recently that suggests every lifeform on the planet is equally as evolved. They used the example of a type of creature that is solar powered, it consumes some kind of chemical that allows it to collect energy from the sun. I thought that was pretty amazing.

Are you being funny?

Nothingman54

halv wrote:

http://s127.photobucket.com/albums/p146/halv99/

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.

Really makes me want to not eat meat ever again. That place looked really unhealthy. You should send the pics to a news station.

IlovveePJ

I'm sorry, but I like meat.



Rest in peace, chickens. =(

Scubascott

Oh, ok, nudibranchs. I missed that. I thought you were being a smartarse and just talking about plants.

Actually, just for interest's sake, symbiotic partnerships between marine invertebrates and photosynthetic algae are extremely common, particularly on coral reefs. There are hundreds of species of coral, anemones, nudibranchs and clams with similar relationships with sybiotic algae. They allow those organisms to survive in extremely oligotrophic (nutrient poor) waters.

halv

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