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Chickens

1. ‘Bird Brain’ Is a Compliment
Several recent studies have shown that chickens are bright animals, able to solve complex problems, demonstrate self-control, and worry about the future. Chickens are smarter than cats or dogs and even do some things that have not yet been seen in mammals other than primates. Dr. Chris Evans, who studies animal behavior and communication at Macquarie University in Australia, says, “As a trick at conferences, I sometimes list these attributes, without mentioning chickens, and people think I’m talking about monkeys.” Dr. John Webster of Bristol University found that chickens are capable of understanding cause and effect and that when chickens learn something new, they pass on that knowledge (i.e., they have what scientists call “culture”). How does your IQ compare to that of a chicken?

2. All Drugged Up
Quite simply, chickens are the most abused animals on the planet. Chickens raised for their flesh are packed by the thousands into massive sheds. They are fed large amounts of antibiotics and drugs to keep them alive in conditions that would otherwise kill them. The antibiotics make chickens grow so large, so fast that they often become crippled under their own weight. This reckless use of antibiotics also makes drugs less effective for treating humans by speeding up the development of drug-resistant bacteria. Learn more about the overuse of antibiotics in chickens.

3. Scalded to Death
Only seven weeks after they are born, chickens are crowded onto trucks that transport them to the slaughterhouse. Tens of millions of chickens have their wings and legs broken in the process every year. They are trucked through all weather extremes, sometimes over hundreds of miles, without any food or water. At slaughter, chickens are hung upside-down and have their throats slit, and they are often scalded to death in defeathering tanks. Watch undercover footage of chickens who are mutilated and scalded to death at a Tyson slaughterhouse.

4. They Don’t Even Get a Lawyer
The billions of chickens killed each year are not protected by a single federal law—the “Humane Slaughter Act” exempts birds, even though there are more than 55 times as many chickens slaughtered each year as pigs and cows combined! Chickens raised for their flesh have their sensitive beaks cut off with a hot blade without any painkillers. These intelligent animals spend their entire lives in filthy sheds with tens of thousands of other birds, each getting about as much space as a sheet of paper, where intense crowding and confinement lead to outbreaks of disease. If factory-farm owners treated cats and dogs like they treat chickens, they would go to jail for cruelty to animals. Learn more about the routine abuse of chickens in factory farms.

5. Do You Want Poop With That?
A USDA study found that more than 99 percent of broiler chicken carcasses sold in stores had detectable levels of E. coli, indicating fecal contamination. In other words, if you’re eating chicken flesh, you’re almost certainly eating poop. Consumer Reports states there are “1.1 million or more Americans sickened each year by undercooked, tainted chicken.” Chicken flesh is also loaded with dangerous levels of arsenic, which can cause cancer, dementia, neurological problems, and other ailments in humans. Men’s Health magazine recently ranked supermarket chicken number one in their list of the “10 Dirtiest Foods” because of the high rate of bacterial contamination. Learn more about how eating chicken and meat puts your health at risk.

6. Lose the Fat, Avoid the Flu
Both the Center for Disease Control and the World Health Organization say that if the avian flu virus spreads to the United States, it could be caught simply by eating undercooked chicken flesh or eggs, eating food prepared on the same cutting board as infected meat or eggs, or even touching eggshells contaminated with the disease. Chicken flesh and eggs are packed with cholesterol—a 3-ounce piece of skinless chicken breast meat has as much cholesterol as beef, and just one egg has nearly three times as much! This cholesterol, along with a high intake of animal fats, blocks arteries and causes heart disease. Vegan foods, on the other hand, are all cholesterol-free and much lower in fat!

7. The Most Dangerous Factory Job in America
According to the U.S. Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics, slaughterhouse workers are more than three times more likely to suffer injuries while working than workers in other manufacturing jobs, and they suffer a rate of repetitive stress injury that is 35 times higher than that in other manufacturing jobs. The industry refuses to make working conditions safer by slowing line speeds or buying appropriate safety gear, which amounts to what Human Rights Watch calls “systematic human rights violations embedded in meat and poultry industry employment.” Big chicken companies such as Tyson and Perdue also exploit contract factory-farm operators, whom Auburn University economist Robert Taylor calls “serfs with a mortgage.” Contract factory farmers are forced to foot the bill for building and maintaining massive factory farms, which puts them deeply into debt and can drive them to financial ruin if their company cancels future contracts with them. Learn why Human Rights Watch calls meat-packing “the most dangerous factory job in America.”

8. Motherly Love
In a natural setting, a hen will cluck to her chicks before they even hatch while she sits on the eggs in her nest. They peep back to her and to each other through their shells. In factory farms, eggs are taken from the mother as soon as they are laid and put in large incubators—a chick will never meet his or her parents. Hens prefer to have private nests hidden from predators and will often go without food or water in order to obtain a private nest. This demonstrates the fact that hens will sacrifice their own comfort if it means protecting their chicks. Learn more about the personalities of these interesting animals.

9. Chicken Sh*t
Raising 9 billion chickens in factory farms each year produces enormous amounts of excrement. Oregon State University agriculture professor Peter Cheeke says that factory farming amounts to “a frontal assault on the environment,” which leads to widespread fecal ground and water pollution. Because chickens are fed massive amounts of drugs, hormones, and pesticides, these chemicals are also found in high concentrations in their feces, which means that fecal pollution from chicken farms is especially disastrous for the environment. In West Virginia and Maryland, for example, scientists have recently discovered that male fish are growing ovaries, and they suspect that this freakish deformity is the result of factory-farm runoff from drug-laden chicken feces. Learn more about factory farming’s toll on the Earth.

10. Better Than the Original
Do you like the taste of chicken flesh but don’t like the suffering? No problem—try some of the fantastic alternatives now available, such as Boca Chik’n Nuggets, Gardenburger’s Meatless Buffalo Chicken Wings, and Yves Veggie Chicken Burgers. These super-tasty foods are high in protein, cruelty- and cholesterol- free, and available at your local supermarket. Instead of eggs, try tofu scramble, whip up some vegan French toast, or check out our egg-free baking tips.

beachbelle wrote: scientists have recently discovered that male fish are growing ovaries, and they suspect that this freakish deformity is the result of factory-farm runoff from drug-laden chicken feces. Learn more about factory farming’s toll on the Earth.

Imagine recently married Liban growing ovaries!!!!!!!!!Damn they will have to argue who will produce baby!!! Would be fun to see him hermaphrodite!!!

mmmmmm while reading this article I was having my chicken.....mmmmmm zasty......

choco must read this........mmmmmmmm another zesty chicken wings.............

Some day every body can appreciate that animal life is as much 'life' as ours is. I can't see it happening soon....but I hope that somewhere the killing of an animal for meat or anything else will be viewed with as much shock as the killing of a person.

I stopped eating meat years ago because I opened up to this. To see the Love between a cow and her baby calf. To see how innocent and loving a lamb can be. Now I read about chicken's being more emotionally intelligent than dog's. I know how aware my dog was...so chicken is out of my plate too. I was considering getting it back in my diet...because veg can get boring. But never mind boring....better than killing


I know I know...you guys are going to right about lip smacking meat dishes now. But I have the right to my opinion so here it is.

AFG wrote:Some day every body can appreciate that animal life is as much 'life' as ours is. I can't see it happening soon....but I hope that somewhere the killing of an animal for meat or anything else will be viewed with as much shock as the killing of a person.

I stopped eating meat years ago because I opened up to this. To see the Love between a cow and her baby calf. To see how innocent and loving a lamb can be. Now I read about chicken's being more emotionally intelligent than dog's. I know how aware my dog was...so chicken is out of my plate too. I was considering getting it back in my diet...because veg can get boring. But never mind boring....better than killing


I know I know...you guys are going to right about lip smacking meat dishes now. But I have the right to my opinion so here it is.

even men have emotions and some women treat us worse-----nag

Find a woman who has converted to vegetarian ...

AFG wrote:Find a woman who has converted to vegetarian ...

Oh crap ! She will force me to b a herbivorous chap! NO WAY! I love meat and will always love em......

AFG wrote:Find a woman who has converted to vegetarian ...

Sorry, already married

That's the beauty of us veg converts...we appreciate everybody's views. She won't force you to convert....unless of course you start appreciating her ways and decide on your own my hubby did

AFG wrote:That's the beauty of us veg converts...we appreciate everybody's views. She won't force you to convert....unless of course you start appreciating her ways and decide on your own my hubby did

sun can rise from west but sniper420 will always have zesty zesy chicken and meat sausages....

kanelli wrote:

AFG wrote:Find a woman who has converted to vegetarian ...

Sorry, already married

I thought u were a woman! u a les! Oh crap!

I am a woman and I have a husband. You are pretty slow today sniper

So far my hubby agrees to eat veggie with me at home, but he eats meat at lunch when he's at work.

kanelli wrote:I am a woman and I have a husband. You are pretty slow today sniper

So far my hubby agrees to eat veggie with me at home, but he eats meat at lunch when he's at work.

oh yeah..it's ur internet that is slow....mmmmmmmm does ur husband come home late at night?

hmmmm...so thats why they stopped and banned eating babies...

fact: jesus, siddhartha gautama (budhha), mohamad, tao...they all ate meat and never condemned it...and uhmmm...they started religions...

its a choice...thats the bottom line. the taking of a life for food..the whole concept on it is pretty messed up...but HUMANS as animals are naturally CARNIVORES...thats why we have encisors...proof of that evolutional trait...now its a matter of choice...veggies have life too...only difference is that when you kill plants, they dont go screaming...

its not what we eat people...its what we are...and how we treat others.

Kitster wrote:its a choice...thats the bottom line. the taking of a life for food..the whole concept on it is pretty messed up...

I so agree.

Many generations from now our descendents will look back at history and wonder how we could stroll down supermarket aisles and so barbarously, unthinkingly, select dead things from polystyrene packs to cook for supper...

In a world where people eat monkeys and dogs and horses and crocodiles and sharks and, sometimes, other people, we all have to take a stand and peg our positions on the continuum of what we eat.

I personally take a stand somewhere below dead walking things, though I still eat dead swimming things (yay sushi!). For now.

C'mon everybody! Let's all eat at Boca Chik’n Nuggets, Gardenburger’s Meatless Buffalo Chicken Wings, and Yves Veggie Chicken Burgers! Yeeeyy...

Yves Ground Round is great in pasta sauce!