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Drunk Kills 70,000

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bengraven

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The dead in 15 minutes thing creeps me the fuck out.

Don't give me that bullshit about weather, though. Unless it was winter, that's just not logical.
 
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Damon Bennet

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yn-neko hates a cat said:
That's what I said. No respect for equality of life on these threads. The same basic rights afforded to people such as freedom to live and love are denied for animals because they're seen as nothing more than resource. It's no not really surprising I guess that people hear 70,000 dead and not care what it is. They seem to want to place living things in an arbitrary hierarchy of value of life instead of revering all life. It's almost as if they were equating life to a dollar value at some level. I wonder if they know that in the black market, a large tuna goes for more than a human. I'm sure most here would find the idea appalling that someone would value human life as such yet here they are devaluing the life of others.
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quoted again for truth.

A chicken is about as intelligent as a 3 year old human. Someone said earlier that you can kill animals because they are dumb and because they cannot speak up - the same goes for babies of that age.

Life is unvaluable, mass production really is a holocaust for animals.
 
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tw1164

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bengraven said:
The dead in 15 minutes thing creeps me the fuck out.

Don't give me that bullshit about weather, though. Unless it was winter, that's just not logical.
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I think its the ammonia levels from the chicken shit in the houses. If the exhaust fans are idle it will just build and suffocate the chickens.
 
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Seanspeed

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Dynopia said:
Good. The chickens were going to die anyway and at least this way they got revenge for how they were treated! Those awful battery farms should be made illegal, poor chickens.
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I dont sympathize with the farmer too much because of the conditions they put these chickens in, I've gotta say, but I do think its terrible that 70,000 chickens died for nothing.
 
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Razek

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God why did I leave this tab open overnight, I did not want to come back to this thread again. Well, at least it's nice to see a few posters here who actually get it rather than posting to make a dumb joke hoping to get quoted.
 
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Damon Bennet

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According to Viva!USA

Every day, 23 million chickens are killed in the U.S. for food--that’s 269 deaths per second!
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I would not worry about the prices going up because of lousy 70k chickens not reaching their slaughterhouse.
 
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Perspicacity

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yn-neko hates a cat said:
That's what I said. No respect for equality of life on these threads. The same basic rights afforded to people such as freedom to live and love are denied for animals because they're seen as nothing more than resource. It's no not really surprising I guess that people hear 70,000 dead and not care what it is. They seem to want to place living things in an arbitrary hierarchy of value of life instead of revering all life. It's almost as if they were equating life to a dollar value at some level. I wonder if they know that in the black market, a large tuna goes for more than a human. I'm sure most here would find the idea appalling that someone would value human life as such yet here they are devaluing the life of others.
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1. The chickens were already dead, it's just their execution date was moved up by 1
2. I find it strange that you'd take this stance while also condoning keeping animals as sex slaves.
 
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Charles Foster Kane

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blame space said:
oh really are we going to equate human lives to animal lives now?
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Glad someone said it. As much as I love animals, at least this type of animals are mass produced to be killed anyways. It'd be worse if it was a wild endangered species. Something has to die in order for us (humans) to live.

People who equate human lives to animal lives, or that say they don't eat meat to not kill animals have always intrigued me. I live in Costa Rica (a very "green" country) and it has given me some perspective.

I live in a town that used to be surrounded by forest. My place is near a river that used to house hundreds of howling monkeys and other species. That was when I was about 5. I used to wake up to their singing, it was beautiful. Now that I`m 27 I don't hear them anymore, or the other types of animals or birds. I haven't seen armadillos or anteaters in my backyard in years. They all disappeared soon after companies turned the forests into sugar cane and melon plantations. They only left small portions of forest near the rivers in which the monkeys struggle to survive. These animals require a lot of free space to move and that is gone. All throughout Guanacaste is the same thing. Now everything is plantations. I think habitat loss is one of the biggest reason for wild animals death today, so even if you are vegan something dies to produce food; at least chicken are mass produced to die.

So I feel very little empathy for something like this or the people who want to make one feel bad for not caring. Even if you only eat greens, you are indirectly killing animals. If everyone was vegetarian, imagine all the plantation they'd have to make to fee us all. I'm sure That'd destroy lots of habitats and therefore killing so many wild animals.
 
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Kagami

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DrForester said:
How does power keep the chicken alive? I can understand in the long run, but no power = death in 15 minutes?
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Must be one of those new high-tech chicken farm systems.
chicken_farm.jpg
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http://www.wired.com/underwire/2012/02/headless-chicken-solution/
 
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Charles Foster Kane

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I have chicken in my backyard. The don't die if there's no power for 15 minutes or if I don't feed them for a couple of hours, if anything they'd turn out a bit slimmer. I say the chicken in this story were doomed anyways.

I doubt they were roaming free like mine.
 
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NaturalHigh

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This guy is a hero! I can see how this played out:

*Dude gettin mad va-jay-jay off the girl in the house. Like a pimp*
*She tells him about all the chickens and how they are set to die and the only way to save them is to access the control shed that can only be unlocked by blowing over a .1 on a breathalyzer*
*Dude gets fuckin tanked. on wild TURKEY. He watches chicken run to get hyped*
*The girl pleads with him to just stay and keep making awesome sexy chicken Moses love but he declines*
*Dude goes outside but is forced to take off his shorts in order to navigate an insane web of laser trips*
*Dude makes it to the shed, blows in the breathalyzer, it unlocks, he heroically opens the door*

Everyone do the dinosaur.


I'm sorry.
 
DonMigs85

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Charles Foster Kane said:
I have chicken in my backyard. The don't die if there's no power for 15 minutes or if I don't feed them for a couple of hours, if anything they'd turn out a bit slimmer. I say the chicken in this story were doomed anyways.

I doubt they were roaming free like mine.
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Obviously not, it says "hen house" in the article.
Not sure if they were meat chickens or laying hens though.
 
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Chunky

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yn-neko hates a cat said:
We can spend a billion dollars to put a probe on Mars yet this depth of human knowledge can't even create one cell of life from inert minerals but we have absolutely no reverence for the death of 70,000 fellow inhabitance of Earth who breath and have a will to live and may probably have hopes and dreams. We've subjugated an entire species and called it "domestication". It seems that bish isn't the only person here with blood on their hands.
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Oh good, you were joking.

Wait wait, I mean 'yolking' RDRR
 
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Charles Foster Kane

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ultim8p00 said:
Incomprehensible how someone can commit such a fowl act.




What a henous crime.
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I hope you mean the owner of the hen house.

The property owner discovered the dead chickens Saturday morning. He told investigators that without power, the chickens will begin to die within 15 minutes. The birds, which were due to be delivered to a local processing plant the following day
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They were pretty much already dead.
 
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squidyj

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Damon Bennet said:
quoted again for truth.

A chicken is about as intelligent as a 3 year old human. Someone said earlier that you can kill animals because they are dumb and because they cannot speak up - the same goes for babies of that age.

Life is unvaluable, mass production really is a holocaust for animals.
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mmmmmmmmm no.
 
TheContact

TheContact

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So what if the place just lost power? They'd die. If a fuse blew they'd die. There's no back-up generator? All you need to do is flip a switch and you can kill them all? Seems stupid, on both parties.
 
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Damon Bennet

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Charles Foster Kane said:
Glad someone said it. As much as I love animals, at least this type of animals are mass produced to be killed anyways. It'd be worse if it was a wild endangered species. Something has to die in order for us (humans) to live.

People who equate human lives to animal lives, or that say they don't eat meat to not kill animals have always intrigued me. I live in Costa Rica (a very "green" country) and it has given me some perspective.

I live in a town that used to be surrounded by forest. My place is near a river that used to house hundreds of howling monkeys and other species. That was when I was about 5. I used to wake up to their singing, it was beautiful. Now that I`m 27 I don't hear them anymore, or the other types of animals or birds. I haven't seen armadillos or anteaters in my backyard in years. They all disappeared soon after companies turned the forests into sugar cane and melon plantations. They only left small portions of forest near the rivers in which the monkeys struggle to survive. These animals require a lot of free space to move and that is gone. All throughout Guanacaste is the same thing. Now everything is plantations. I think habitat loss is one of the biggest reason for wild animals death today, so even if you are vegan something dies to produce food; at least chicken are mass produced to die.

So I feel very little empathy for something like this or the people who want to make one feel bad for not caring. Even if you only eat greens, you are indirectly killing animals. If everyone was vegetarian, imagine all the plantation they'd have to make to fee us all. I'm sure That'd destroy lots of habitats and therefore killing so many wild animals.
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This point of view is interesting but wrong. About three quarters of the arable land of the world are directly linked to meat production. A huge percentage of rainforest area is destroyed because they use it to produce cheap soy or other cheap food for animals - not for humans. in combination with the degrading energy ( you need 10kg of soy for 1kg of pig meat for example ) you can quite clearly see that a vegetarian/vegan diet is much more sustainable. that goes for water-usage, land-usage etc.

for example: you could use a tenth of the soy amount, to create 1.8 times of tofu. while I am not crazy for tofu myself, I think it shows that your logic is flawed, as meat production needs vastly more land than any vegetarian/vegan alternative.
 
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