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Thread ID: 134337	2013-06-21 08:54:00	Battery (tortured) hens	lakewoodlady (103)	PC World Chat

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1346541	2013-06-21 08:54:00	I just cannot understand how people can be so cruel as to allow the proliferation of this barbaric practice! www.stuff.co.nz LL	lakewoodlady (103)
1346542	2013-06-21 09:47:00	:+1: I do think that the so-called "green" free-range produce is OT - and far too expensive for the average city dweller. My compromise is to buy barn laid eggs. It's a compromise but it's affordable.	WalOne (4202)
1346543	2013-06-21 09:55:00	Before liberating the battery farm chooks, take a long look at a side view of cruise ships. Also think about rush hour public transport. :(	R2x1 (4628)
1346544	2013-06-24 05:35:00	take a long look at a side view of cruise ships . ( OT I know, but, that is only the cells you can see, below that, and within the interior, there are many more windowless cells that we sewage class travellers must endure . As an impecunious young man I took a cruise around the Greek Islands on my way to fame and fortune in the UK and as luck would have it, we hit a typhoon late one night, only I didn't know at the time . My bargain-basement cell (you could not call it a cabin!) was in the bows and right underneath the anchor-chain locker, so I thought that the ups and downs and corkscrew motions were just normal nautical artefacts, so I wedged myself into the bunk and went to sleep . It was only when they dropped anchor that I awoke, you never heard a noise quite like it . Then I went up for breakfast and had to wade through the previous night's dinners and bar consumption, and found the dining saloon virtually empty . The rest of the battery hens were lying around the place groaning and moaning . I haven't been on a cruise since, and have every sympathy for the hens, we only buy free-range eggs and if they were all farmed that way it would be a very good thing . Apart from snakes and politicians, all living creatures are entitled to some dignity and should be treated with some level of compassion, wherever they sit in the food chain . Of course I'm not advocating the eating of politicians, heaven forbid, you never know where they've been, and they're b*st*rds to clean . I only included snakes because it can be hard to tell the difference, and I wouldn't want any politicians to be mistaken for snakes and escape their fate . Cheers Billy 8-{) :2cents:	Billy T (70)
1346545	2013-06-24 06:59:00	What Billy said (apart from way too much information about the on board vomitorium). We always had chooks when I was a kid and an adolescent, and I had some of my own - they are close to sentient beings! There is no way I could buy battery farm eggs (or pork from cage farms either). Both practices are totally repellent and sub human. We willingly pay the extra for our eggs and bacon.	John H (8)
1346546	2013-06-24 07:46:00	. . I only included snakes because it can be hard to tell the difference, and I wouldn't want any politicians to be mistaken for snakes and escape their fate . Cheers Billy 8-{) :2cents: There is a simple test, put the snake and the politician together . The snake is the upstanding one . ;)	R2x1 (4628)
1346547	2013-06-24 07:48:00	What Billy said (apart from way too much information about the on board vomitorium). We always had chooks when I was a kid and an adolescent, and I had some of my own - they are close to sentient beings! There is no way I could buy battery farm eggs (or pork from cage farms either). Both practices are totally repellent and sub human. We willingly pay the extra for our eggs and bacon. So you only eat the well treated ones? What should we do with the sad ones? ;)	R2x1 (4628)
1346548	2013-06-24 23:18:00	Free Range organic eggs are pretty cheap at the supermarket . Having said that, "Free Range" usually isnt what you would think & may not be alot better (for the hens) . Given all the chemicals,hormones,antibiotics that are pumped into hens, I go for the Organic . Truth is, most really dont care about animal cruelty, unless its to dogs, cats or horses . Anything else is pretty much OK it seems, just look they other way & pretend it doesnt really happen .	1101 (13337)
1346549	2013-06-25 00:33:00	I've been past a free range farm and seen a large number of chickens penned into a small square of mud. Not particularly great either. Both types taste great though. There are too many people in the world. In order to feed them all we resort to barbaric farming practices and strip the planet of resources. If you really care about other species stop breeding. Otherwise accept that without battery hens and ge crops and fishing the oceans bare people will starve. You can't have it both ways.	dugimodo (138)
1346550	2013-06-25 01:27:00	The only real way to stop it (and other retail bad practices) is for the consumer to stop buying it. Trouble is, Free-Range seems to be an excuse to double the price. No, it doesn't cost more to keep them free-range. Down South I was lucky enough to have an egg supplier (free range) who sold them for $3 a dozen. Alas, here.....haven't found one yet. I try to compromise and buy the in-between due to budget constraints.	pctek (84)
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