Hello All. I came across this article in the NY Times about "The Worst Way of Farming". Apparently there was a study done about farming and it was found that confined animal feeding operations are treating too many animals inhumanely and creating environmental threats, unacceptable health risks for workers, and the rest of us too. I have to say that I have recently seen some video footage of workers in a chicken factory that supplies KFC with it's chicken and I was appalled at the way they were dealing with the chickens. In the video there was a line of people at a counter where they were pulling chickens from some place on the counter and then at the hardest velocity they could muster with their strongest arm they would throw each chicken into a wall that was about 4 feet away from them. Some chickens were killed instantly thank God and others were flopping around broken and damaged. Later after the pile of dead and dying chickens got big enough people from the line would run through the pile and jump with all their weight on the pile of chickens. Even if the chickens were all dead I would think that this would be bad for the meat as far as it goes when I'm trying to eat it later. Anyway, I am not one of those dumb ass PETA people who thinks that meat makes you impotent despite the fact that we have managed to overproduce worldwide after eating billions of pounds of it on a daily basis. I am a farm kid from Oklahoma. I used to have to go get my own eggs for breakfast from right under the chicken's ass. I used to have to catch the chicken we would later eat and I learned to kill it humanely and quickly not like a cruel cold hearted asshole. I was taught that the animals on this planet were given to us by God and we hadn't ought to abuse them just because we can. As I grew up I came to know that the average person who kills animals just for the fun of it on a consistent basis eventually escalates their terror to humans. This is why I advocate the small individual farmer instead of these mass production facilities. I am from a small town farming family and I think that small town farmers have gotten screwed over by the government and our society as we have lessened our need for the small town farmer and increased our need for the mass production facility.
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