Chicken factory farmer speaks out

[Serpo]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YE9l94b3x9U#t=10


Factory Chicken Farmer Invites Activists to See the Horrors of his Farm (http://www.activistpost.com/2014/12/factory-chicken-farmer-invites.html)
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-aXyJgfRhQMw/VIMlJvHFfCI/AAAAAAAAiiw/nNgL562y5PA/s1600/chickenscry-300x200.jpg (http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-aXyJgfRhQMw/VIMlJvHFfCI/AAAAAAAAiiw/nNgL562y5PA/s1600/chickenscry-300x200.jpg)Alex Pietrowski
Activist Post (http://www.activistpost.com/2014/12/factory-chicken-farmer-invites.html)

Our public food supply is being taken over by corporations which have no qualms about using the most horrifying and inhumane practices in order to increase output and profits. This is a rather new development in the history of farming, and in just a few short years the entire landscape of meat production has turned into something so cruel, and so horrible, that people are becoming outraged.

In response, the major meat manufacturers are pulling strings within the government to prevent public access to the truth about these slaughterhouses and, even worse, the government is going so far as to rewrite law to make animal rights activism illegal (http://www.wakingtimes.com/2013/02/23/wave-of-ag-gag-laws-aimed-at-protecting/) – an act of terrorism.

Antibiotics are overused, animals are forced into disgusting concentrated feeding operations (CAFOs), they are denied sunlight, fresh air, and are pumped full of hormones that deform their bodies in order to fatten them up.

Not only is this cruel, but it is totally unnecessary.

Recently, Compassion in World Farming (http://www.ciwf.com/) had a one-of-a-kind offer from a chicken farmer….

Craig Watts is a contract poultry producer for Purdue farms and as such he is contractually obligated to operate his farm according to the specifications of his contractor. After coming to the conclusion that the type of farming he was doing was inhumane, cruel and torturous, unsustainable and untenable, he invited a film crew onto his property for a first hand look at the conditions of his animals.




On the tour, he described how the animals arrived as chicks that were already very weak, suffering from a high mortality rate, and how just 37 days later their bodies had bulged to enormous sizes with overgrown breasts, broken legs, and rotting skin from lying in dung all the time.

Being invited into a corporate farm to observe this is quite unique, as these farmers are under serious scrutiny by the corporations that they work for. Most likely this interview will cost him his job, but you have to commend him for being the first corporate farmer to go to these lengths to expose this terrible reality.

When asked what he thought could be done to revamp the modern poultry industry, Craig Watts replied:

I think it’s almost going to have to be a start over. We’re passed the rewind button here. This has gone too far. Perhaps he is right, but take a look for yourself…



If slaughterhouses had glass walls (http://www.wakingtimes.com/2012/06/25/if-slaughter-houses-had-glass-walls/), you can bet that the American people would not tolerate this for one more minute, but out-of-sight-out-of-mind is sadly an effective strategy in today’s busy world.

What can you do?

This is primarily driven by economics, and, as such, you can have an impact by voting with your dollars and being vocal with your local supermarkets about the treatment of animals. You can also look for info on how to ask your supermarket to do better …

Better Chicken at http://better-chicken.org (http://better-chicken.org/).


http://www.activistpost.com/2014/12/factory-chicken-farmer-invites.html#more

[gunDriller]

it is a common practice to toss birds that have stopped performing into a shredder. i.e. roosters & hens past a certain age.

when a composting facility says they get 'chicken feathers' from a chicken farm, they mean usually that they're getting shredded chickens.

[Cebu_4_2]

http://youtu.be/YABG6QT5Tjw

http://youtu.be/YABG6QT5Tjw

[Shami-Amourae]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmfRMeU6pQ8

:rolleyes:

[hoarder]

I eat eggs from small home farms. The feed store sells them at no profit for $3 a dozen. These eggs are delicious, have brown shells and orange colored yolks. They're sold in recycled cartons. When they're sold out, I get store bought "organic free range" eggs for $6 a dozen and the eggs are small (marked large), have yellow yolks and taste bland.
The only chickens I buy are Amish/Hutterite. They're $1.89 a pound and at least a little better than run of the mill storebought chickens.

[Tumbleweed]

Joel Salatin is a pretty interesting fellow and he teaches a better way of raising chickens in this video.




http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1-MbPwaY6Y

[Hatha Sunahara]

When I see how people produce meat on factory farms, it makes me want to be a vegetarian, but even that is becoming an unattractive option because of GMO food. I think that eventually, one day I will not eat anything produced by a corporation, or a big for profit business. That will only happen if lots of people understand how their food is produced, and reject it, and look for other better ways to produce food. That day is coming, and will be here sooner rather than later. There was a recent movie about this called Food, Inc. I think everyone needs to see that. Here, watch it now:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Oq24hITFTY&list=PLroXMzpkGyI5D7nUKJVK4QpJ Pa1V34i-c




Hatha

[crimethink]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmfRMeU6pQ8

:rolleyes:

I eat chicken because it's my "Right to Choose." :D

This utterly pathetic taco muncher has zero problem with abortion on demand.

[crimethink]

Since the love of money is the root of all evil, it is easily understood why factory "farming" has become the norm in this world.

Take out the shareholders and the wholesalers, and the price of organic and/or small-farm-conventional food is comparable to what you're used to now.

If you want the freshest, truly most-natural, and usually cheapest food, visit your local farmers' market(s):

http://search.ams.usda.gov/farmersmarkets/

The PETAphiles can go straight to Hell, but there is no reason that animal raising and slaughter need be barbaric. I stopped eating veal decades ago since there is no non-barbaric method of producing it. Veal, along with foie gras, are luxury foods for anti-human elitists, anyways.

[Glass]

Yes I think there are ways and ways. If the animal is abused and stressed it's meat is nearly worthless. Watching videos about mass food production you can see why people choose not to go that way. I remember one about a pig.

The doom story goes that the NWO want to kill off most of the population and reduce the remnants energy consumption to near zero. Seems many people want to live a simpler life and be low energy foot print. be more sustainable. Not really sure what the problem is as both seem to want the same thing.

I watched the video that Dr Mercola made of his visit to Joel's farm. Interesting. Lot of good ideas.

[jaybone]

Joel Salatin is a pretty interesting fellow and he teaches a better way of raising chickens in this video.




http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1-MbPwaY6Y

This is an issue that is very close to me because a 18 months ago I quit my corporate job, moved back to the community I grew up in and started a pastured poultry farm based on Joel Salatin's model. We have had a good first season, in spite of many challenges. It is difficult to compete with $1/pound torture chickens from the supermarket; we charge $4/pound and make a pretty small margin on that. The ignorance is bliss thing lets people compare our excellent product to their absolutely disgusting product without accounting for the environmental costs, not to mention animal welfare, so I really applaud this farmer for sticking his neck out, he will be attacked mercilessly for his courage.

I urge everyone to support your local farmers, we work hard for very little money, but we do it because it has to be done. The CAFO status quo cannot go on forever, and the time to support alternatives has arrived.

Also bear in mind the 'prep' angle: WHEN there is a food supply disruption, your farmer will probably have chicken available, but only to their best customers and friends, you should try to become both.

[Serpo]

http://www.avianaquamiser.com/20130826headonchicken.jpg

[gunDriller]

If I had more time, I would like to make an animation where the positions are reversed.

Where the chicken family sits around the table and eats Roast Human with cumin and sweet peppers.


Oh, and instead of the Rabbi swinging the chicken, the Chicken swings the Rabbi around its head.

[mick silver]

http://i190.photobucket.com/albums/z189/AirborneRooster/cartoon/FOGHORNLEGHORNCOMMENT.jpg

[mick silver]

http://fc09.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2011/319/7/8/chicken_horse_by_waggonercartoons-d4gbab9.jpg

[palani]

Corporate farming practices and packer ownership of animals are closely related topics. Farmers lost the battle when the only market to sell livestock to also compete with them on the ownership side. Now many farmers own the ground that the confinement buildings sit on and they tend the operation but frequently have little financial stake in the outcome.

[hoarder]

Back in 1996, I bought some land which was formerly used as a free range turkey farm by Plantation Foods (bought out by Jewish Cargill). I met an employee of Plantation who told me that the watering troughs were purified with colloidal silver which prevented the birds from getting sick. They were getting rid of many of these approx 400 acre farms as they had converted to more cost-effective "modern farming methods".

[singular_me]

I am mainly vegetarian/vegan but eat meat 2or 3 times per month, which represents not more than 2lbs. Also more or less up to 3 dozens of fresh eggs monthly.

I really think meat consumption in the west is completely out of whack, it has become the mirror of our society's death cult.

not agreeing with everything Passio says but some great insights here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xalIRBqZwlc

[monty]

Animal Rights extremists are attacking agriculture. If they get their way there will b no hunting, no medical research, no farming . . . . .



http://youtu.be/llBhUR-CEq4

https://youtu.be/llBhUR-CEq4

[singular_me]

yes Hatha, I hear you... life cannot be monetized and eventually humans will understand it at their own expenses.

animal rights activists and farm factories are 2 sides of the same coin after all. Truth lies in the middle as usual. This meat business is out of whack because people are themselves addicted to meat. And this hurts animals, another form of blood ritual, and gives animal activism legs. As usual, self-imposed moderation is key. It is not without a reason that gluttony is a capital sin. It is now one of the main causes crushing our economy. We throw away food like never before to keep the meat addicts happy.

Nice job NWO!!!



When I see how people produce meat on factory farms, it makes me want to be a vegetarian, but even that is becoming an unattractive option because of GMO food. I think that eventually, one day I will not eat anything produced by a corporation, or a big for profit business. That will only happen if lots of people understand how their food is produced, and reject it, and look for other better ways to produce food. That day is coming, and will be here sooner rather than later. There was a recent movie about this called Food, Inc. I think everyone needs to see that. Here, watch it now:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Oq24hITFTY&list=PLroXMzpkGyI5D7nUKJVK4QpJ Pa1V34i-c




Hatha