New member/New and struggling veggie - for Virgil

[Guest guest]

Actualy Virgil, I did know that chickens are intelligent aren't most

birds really smart? I think I saw something on animal planet about

that once. Chickens just aren't my favorite animals, though to each

his own right? I have pet rats and catch a lot of grief about them

too.

Anyway I don't eat chicken nuggets for all the reasons you sited.

Have you ever read the book " Toxin " by ehhh I think it's somebody

Cook. It was a fiction and it focused on the beef industry not

chickens but I stopped eating ground meat for a very long time after

reading it. Then started backed with hamburgers but now have stopped.

But thanx, I'll go look on your website I try and stay away from

animal rights conversations though. Not because I don't care but

because I've been run down by to many PETA members extremist. Kinda

scary. But THANKYOU, I was thinking about making a chicken dish for

dinner tonight and now I'll be thinking about nasty evil chicken

plants so there goes that idea lol.

 

~Leia

 

 

1 , " Virgil "

<cybergypsy1964> wrote:

> Also sorry to hear about your unfortunate experience with

chickens.

> Ours are quite sweet and very curious and intelligent to boot. You

> say that you just don't have the same pity for their suffering as

you

> do a cow, though you are concerned about your health. Well, you

> *should* be if you are still eating chicken. I quit eating chicken

> long before I quit eating other meat. Why? Because I worked at

> Tyson in their slaughterhouse and saw exactly what happens to that

> meat before it gets shipped to the stores. Did you know anything

> about all the deformed chickens, like the ones with extra heads?

> They get processed, too. Ditto the ones with tumors. The " bad "

> parts get cut off, and the rest goes out to be sold to unsuspecting

> consumers like yourself. And don't even get me started on what

> happens to the stuff they make nuggets out of. I told one story on

> my blog about seeing a guy in the plant scratching his greasy,

sweaty

> butt, then putting his hands right back into the meat that was

going

> into the nuggets. I also saw a guy lose the skin off his hand in

the

> machine that takes the skin off chickens. Guess what happened to

> that skin of his? Yep, right into the nuggets. They tried to find

> it, but never did. Did they withhold that meat from shipment?

> Nope. And, of course, there is all the feces that is pounded into

> them via the high-pressure washout that contaminates them with all

> those nasty diseases, too. There were many, MANY other things I

saw

> during the years of hell in that place, but you get the idea.

> Needless to say, I quit eating chicken shortly after going to work

> there. And that was long before I cared the way I do now about the

> suffering of the chickens. And, of course, there was a LOT of

that,

> too. As I told the other new members here, it's all on my site.

If

> you are looking for that " virtual smack " you asked for to help you

> quit eating, or even *wanting* to eat meat, especially chicken, you

> have come to the right guy. Everything I said on that blog is the

> absolute unvarnished truth. Nasty, cruel, brutal, and graphic.

Just

> like the business is. Maybe reading a bit of it will get rid of

> those cravings. It seems to have worked for quite a few people.

> And, thanks everyone that had nice comments after reading it. I

try

> really hard to get the truth out to people. There aren't many in

the

> industry willing to stand up and tell these things, especially

> hanging their own real name on it. And I believe that you should

> know what you are buying and what you are supporting when you

shop.

> That's the only way to make informed choices, better choices too.

>

> Virgil

> " The Cyberactivist "

> http://cyberactivist.blogspot.com/

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