Battery Farm nonsense

Post by **Richard** » 15 Jul 2007, 14:45

Hens are as happy in Battery Farms

Well, this one just about beats them all.

On the front page of the Sunday Telegraph (c)

today (please accept it is not necessarily their view - they are just reporting it).

Click here to read article

You may have to register to read this - but it's worth it!

Richard

(please do not copy and paste anything - against copyright)

Post by **Richard** » 15 Jul 2007, 14:51

and no swearing either please! sile}

b_cos_1_can · Post by **b_cos_1_can** » 15 Jul 2007, 15:12

so what they are saying is that battery hens are no worse off cos they are just as happy as a free range chook?

if this is what they are saying, and ive read it correctly, then isnt this because its all theyve ever known? they dont know how to be chickens so they are content with what they have cos they dont know what they are missing? its wrong!

they dont know what grass is or what a wrom tastes like! they dont know what wind is or what daylight is about!

these poor chooks think its 'normal' to be climbing over their dead friends and pecking the life out of each other, drawing blood and being bald.

what kind of a life is that.....when they have the chance to be free and be chickens!
sile}

b_cos_1_can · Post by **b_cos_1_can** » 15 Jul 2007, 15:13

grrrrrrrrrrr

melons · Post by **melons** » 15 Jul 2007, 18:35

I've decided it's safer & cleaner if I leave this one well alone, I'm sure you can guess my reaction, the guy needs to be shot, simple as that!

melons · Post by **melons** » 15 Jul 2007, 19:31

That made me soooo snotty, I've written to the Telegraph to get it all of my chest & with not "one" swear word in it!
Tell I'm back at work in the morning or hat?
Lot's of people on the Omlet web site have also written, i do love to write a snotty letter every now & then :-D

Post by **wendy** » 15 Jul 2007, 21:08

What a load of B******s every living beings right, is to perform natural functions. That is the very essence of being the species they are. Birds flying is the major one, chickens, dust bathe, scratch around and generally act as a .....chicken. Every animal also needs some stress to be healthy !!!
I get the Telegraph. They WILL be getting a letter from me.
Wendy

Post by **Richard** » 15 Jul 2007, 21:45

Yes, it needs letters.

To be fair to the Telegraph, they do quite a lot to promote back garden chickens in their Saturday and Sunday editions. (I read someone elses!)

I'm sure this is on the front page, because it's such an issue at present. So, good for them to draw it to attention. Other papers may just pass it by.

I trust this chap spent a good few hours in amongst the hens to appreciate their happiness at being there!

Maybe he and 4 others may like to experiment in a cage approx six feet square (proportionately), no toilet, no bed, having their food, anti-biotics and other super mega plus vitamins fed to them on a conveyor belt. Plus of course a good old hour or two of pulling each others hair out and climbing over the odd body or two.

Cor, don't you just envy it.

morph · Post by **morph** » 16 Jul 2007, 11:30

Well, I had to have scraggy euthanaised on Saturday.

Obviously that must have been due to the terrible life I gave her for the past 18 months after she left the safe and wonderful world of battery cages.

Post by Mo » 16 Jul 2007, 12:06

Well, you gave her a chance. So sorry she didn't make it.

morph · Post by **morph** » 16 Jul 2007, 12:32

Thanks Mo
It's not a problem, she had fluid around her belly, and obviously succumbed to heart failure. She spent her last few hours safe and warm nestled on the settee before the deed.

It was just so ironic that you could read such a neanderthal viewpoint printed by a supposedly educated newspaper.

You know, even rapists and murderers get better treatment than animals in some situations - where is the justice in that.

sile}

I will now go and do some work (climbing down from my soapbox)

melons · Post by **melons** » 16 Jul 2007, 14:23

I did get a reply saying they had received my e-mail, so I sent another one from my works e-mail just to irritate, well I thought It irritated me, so what the hell.

Sorry about your little chicken, I dread that day, but I did get 5 expecting to loose one, I've still got 5 so far :-D

I'm just about to give someone a ring about another hen house I've seen advertised, saying to my OH that I could sell it on e-bay & help pay for my other rediculous hen house purchase, now I'm thinking, well I could just have another 3/4 chickens, what is it with these birds, are they laced with some kind of narcotic to make them so addictive :oops:

AnnaB · Post by **AnnaB** » 16 Jul 2007, 18:44

morph
Sorry to hear about scraggy - sounds the same as what my poor Floss had.
These girls are very addictive but, I now have 8 and I must contain myself!

Willow · Post by **Willow** » 17 Jul 2007, 13:57

Richard wrote:
I trust this chap spent a good few hours in amongst the hens to appreciate their happiness at being there!
Maybe he and 4 others may like to experiment in a cage approx six feet square (proportionately), no toilet, no bed, having their food, anti-biotics and other super mega plus vitamins fed to them on a conveyor belt. Plus of course a good old hour or two of pulling each others hair out and climbing over the odd body or two.

Cor, don't you just envy it.

Mind you Richard, he wouldnt have the worry of being hit by a car or catching the common cold which would, according to him, be a fair swap for his freedom..