> I think consumers would be utterly disgusted to know that a million of these intelligent, sensitive birds are dying every week to get cheap chicken on to their plates.
People who are buying chicken from supermarkets don’t care.
And what about the other ten million or so a week we kill and eat just a few weeks later. Hypocrisy at it’s worse.
They were destined to be killed after 35 days anyway, so if they die early it isn’t as if they miss out on much.
And if they sorted this out, it isn’t as if a million more checked would survive to have a long , happy and fulfilling 35 day life. If less died they would just breed less of them in the first place.
So the deep philosophical question is would you rather live for 35 days, live for 20 days, or never be born at all?
How? Every meat eater gets their chicken from their uncle’s local, organic, humane free range farm.
Nearly all male chickens are killed just after they are hatched.
All chickens raised for food die needlessly. Given how long veganism has existed as a philosophy, how we have removed ourselves from the challenges early Homo sapiens had with respect to food, and how we can fortify foods with vitamins and minerals, there is no reason to not go vegan.
Who’s had a boiling chicken recently? I used to buy them from the back door of a chicken slaughterhouse back in the early 80’s
I’ve noticed the price of chicken has shot up from £3.80 to £4.95 in less than a week
It’s not that I don’t care, it’s that I’m poor, and Chicken is cheap and tasty and goes in many, many things.
I’d love to have enough money to be able to eat ethically, but sadly no.
Cool. Will it work for gas and electricity prices?
Needlessly? Are they just being thrown away?
most meat eaters don’t care. you cannot try to appeal to them using empathy, logic or compassion. they are literally wilfully ignorant because they come up with every pathetic excuse under the sun to continue supporting this barbaric cruelty just because they don’t want to stop eating meat.
some of them outright admit that it’s only a case of that too, and i don’t know what’s worse to be honest. lying to themselves with excuses & hypocrisy to try and justify it, or just outright admitting they literally do not care about needless animal cruelty.
i used to eat meat myself, and i know others who have made the decent change as well. so they’re not all hopeless, and i don’t mean to sound defeatist. but the majority of them (especially the ones in comfortable situations in first world countries) just couldn’t give a toss, and that’s all there really is to it. better to recognise it and try not to focus too much on trying to reason with them, as it’s a sure-fire way to just feel depressed and frustrated.
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and any pressed meat eaters who want to try and argue or call me insults like usual or do your predictable “hAhA vEganS dUmb” or “i EaT sTeak NoW :D”, go for it. i won’t bother replying to you because it’s not worth the effort, probably won’t even bother reading your replies after the first few words if i realise it’s one of those types of comments.
Okay people. This article touches the surface. This [documentary](https://youtu.be/dvtVkNofcq8) shows the reality of our UK farms.
We’re a nation of animal lovers, let’s not pay for their torture.
I misread this as children
Don’t all chickens who are killed for meat die needlessly since we can absolutely survive on a plant based diet? They die because people want to each tasty chicken. Wanting them to die for the fleeting pleasure of taste is not the same as needing to die.
We all know this right?
It’s against the law for me to keep chickens on my own garden so just like most people we are suck with the choice of buying whats in the shops or not eating it at all.
If someone can invent a machine that can go in my kitchen that produces chicken meat from cells then I’ll happily eat that.
This is very simple. If people cared then they wouldn’t buy cheap chicken. The fact is that they value their money more than the welfare of a chicken.
Every thread that touches upon the ecological disaster that is meat eating is always jam packed with fragile muppets who’s entire personality can be described as “hurr durr meat good, vegans bad”.
Sad acts.
Keeping food cheap is the absolute opposite of needless. They’re chickens, literally bred to be stupid, and there’s no reason to care about them.
Not needlessly. Fill our stomachs.
If my chickens low it ain’t needless.
Real talk though with how everything going, I don’t care bout the chickens right now.
Nothing new. Supermarkets driving animal based products into the dirt so farmers have subpar animal welfare. Absolute classic.
How is livestock needlessly killed? It’s killed for food, they wouldn’t exist if we didn’t eat them, plus there are numerous by products that come from them too, many things you would not have without it.
I’m pretty sure they all needlessly die as part of the meat industry.
No but don’t it a lot of chicken or eggs anyway. We don’t have the traditional Sunday dinner.
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But muh tastebuds.
> I think consumers would be utterly disgusted to know that a million of these intelligent, sensitive birds are dying every week to get cheap chicken on to their plates.
People who are buying chicken from supermarkets don’t care.
And what about the other ten million or so a week we kill and eat just a few weeks later. Hypocrisy at it’s worse.
They were destined to be killed after 35 days anyway, so if they die early it isn’t as if they miss out on much.
And if they sorted this out, it isn’t as if a million more checked would survive to have a long , happy and fulfilling 35 day life. If less died they would just breed less of them in the first place.
So the deep philosophical question is would you rather live for 35 days, live for 20 days, or never be born at all?
How? Every meat eater gets their chicken from their uncle’s local, organic, humane free range farm.
Nearly all male chickens are killed just after they are hatched.
All chickens raised for food die needlessly. Given how long veganism has existed as a philosophy, how we have removed ourselves from the challenges early Homo sapiens had with respect to food, and how we can fortify foods with vitamins and minerals, there is no reason to not go vegan.
Who’s had a boiling chicken recently? I used to buy them from the back door of a chicken slaughterhouse back in the early 80’s
I’ve noticed the price of chicken has shot up from £3.80 to £4.95 in less than a week
It’s not that I don’t care, it’s that I’m poor, and Chicken is cheap and tasty and goes in many, many things.
I’d love to have enough money to be able to eat ethically, but sadly no.
Cool. Will it work for gas and electricity prices?
Needlessly? Are they just being thrown away?
most meat eaters don’t care. you cannot try to appeal to them using empathy, logic or compassion. they are literally wilfully ignorant because they come up with every pathetic excuse under the sun to continue supporting this barbaric cruelty just because they don’t want to stop eating meat.
some of them outright admit that it’s only a case of that too, and i don’t know what’s worse to be honest. lying to themselves with excuses & hypocrisy to try and justify it, or just outright admitting they literally do not care about needless animal cruelty.
i used to eat meat myself, and i know others who have made the decent change as well. so they’re not all hopeless, and i don’t mean to sound defeatist. but the majority of them (especially the ones in comfortable situations in first world countries) just couldn’t give a toss, and that’s all there really is to it. better to recognise it and try not to focus too much on trying to reason with them, as it’s a sure-fire way to just feel depressed and frustrated.
​
and any pressed meat eaters who want to try and argue or call me insults like usual or do your predictable “hAhA vEganS dUmb” or “i EaT sTeak NoW :D”, go for it. i won’t bother replying to you because it’s not worth the effort, probably won’t even bother reading your replies after the first few words if i realise it’s one of those types of comments.
Okay people. This article touches the surface. This [documentary](https://youtu.be/dvtVkNofcq8) shows the reality of our UK farms.
We’re a nation of animal lovers, let’s not pay for their torture.
I misread this as children
Don’t all chickens who are killed for meat die needlessly since we can absolutely survive on a plant based diet? They die because people want to each tasty chicken. Wanting them to die for the fleeting pleasure of taste is not the same as needing to die.
We all know this right?
It’s against the law for me to keep chickens on my own garden so just like most people we are suck with the choice of buying whats in the shops or not eating it at all.
If someone can invent a machine that can go in my kitchen that produces chicken meat from cells then I’ll happily eat that.
This is very simple. If people cared then they wouldn’t buy cheap chicken. The fact is that they value their money more than the welfare of a chicken.
Every thread that touches upon the ecological disaster that is meat eating is always jam packed with fragile muppets who’s entire personality can be described as “hurr durr meat good, vegans bad”.
Sad acts.
Keeping food cheap is the absolute opposite of needless. They’re chickens, literally bred to be stupid, and there’s no reason to care about them.
Not needlessly. Fill our stomachs.
If my chickens low it ain’t needless.
Real talk though with how everything going, I don’t care bout the chickens right now.
Nothing new. Supermarkets driving animal based products into the dirt so farmers have subpar animal welfare. Absolute classic.
How is livestock needlessly killed? It’s killed for food, they wouldn’t exist if we didn’t eat them, plus there are numerous by products that come from them too, many things you would not have without it.
I’m pretty sure they all needlessly die as part of the meat industry.
No but don’t it a lot of chicken or eggs anyway. We don’t have the traditional Sunday dinner.
Now we are out of the EU we can stop this.