Cruelty To Post-Egg Animals

http://blog.beliefnet.com/everydayethics/2009/09/grist-for-the-mill-knowing-male-chicks-are-tossed-alive-into-grinders-will-you-still-eat-eggs.html

I was reading the coverage on the great male chick grindup, and frankly, I think it's just sick. The video link's at the bottom, and you really gota watch it to get an idea of the scene of the crime. Actually, the chicken industry is just plain sick. I was already well aware of the terrible conditions for the animals and the debeaking, but grinding up live chicks totally takes the cake.

Actually, I can see the logic behind it. After all, the male chicks are not gona be good for what chickens are good for i.e. fast meat and eggs, so they're really not very useful except for fertilizing the hens. But since we don't want bloody messes in our eggs, we don't really want too many roosters doing that for nothing.

Yet despite all this, I am aware that I am not without blame. Countless chickens have already given their lives to feed me, and I'm proud to say that their tormented meat has not gone to waste. Actually, it has, but it served me first. The thing is not about not eating meat because of cruelty to animals. It might reduce demand, but I do not think it would improve the lot of the poor chickens a hell of a lot. What needs to be done is to lobby against cruelty to food-animals. I say food-animals, because it's really the livestock that's getting the short end of the stick. If someone puts another person's pet dog into a grinder, I do think the authorities would do something about it. These creatures are gona be our food, and really...I don't wana have to be eating too much tormented meat. My life is torment enough as it is. Actually, no...I do so love my camera and computer. That makes me a bad liar.