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Ye coz battery chickens are treated so badly that the people who run these farms need to be stuck in
tiny cages and forced to produce eggs whilst not being allowed to eat. A taste of there own
medicine. The only prob is free range is so much more expensive. Come on free range farmers make it
cheaper please xox |
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As long as it isn't TUNA i am all for it ;-) |
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I agree 100% with you Rosie. The supply and demand quota is extremely unbalanced. However, if
everyone opted for Free range Chicks, and refused to buy batty Chickens, then this would tip the
scales. James Goldsmith wrote a fantastic book called: 'The Trap', which basically outlines the
disaster brewing amongst batty chickens. It's a good read, and it also outlines other problems,
which we are now having to face. Good Debate. Well Done! |
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They taste a lot better and for only a few ponds more.
I wouldn't want to support unhappy chicken raisers. |
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Well the people who purchase these chickens that have been treated cruelly are not usually the
people to cruelly treat them, they just purchase them because they're cheaper and therefore more of
a bargain. Besides, the chicken was better off dead anyway if it was been tortured so horribly |
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Ok that's where your wrong! I agree that treating livestock in a cruel way is wrong but free range
animals are usually not as free range as you think they are! Plus...the biggest thing also is the
cost of production! The small around of money that we make(as a commercial producer) is not enough
to justify the cost of producing real free range birds! They don't grow the same way and you lose
more money and time! But...i do not treat my birds cruelly! They are quite happy so get over it and
learn what your talking about before you start accusing commercial producers of how cruel they are! |
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Ok.... A free range chicken is a matter relativity, most still live in a little cage and they are
considered free range because they are let out of that cage for a few minuets. There is no FDA
regulation for free range stuff.
Why are people taking so much interest in an animal that is not wild in anyway and killing it for
our consumption, we humans have been doing it for centuries!! How is it so wrong?? |
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Chickens good. |
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People should only eat animals they kill themselves. Farming plants is one thing, farming animals,
living, breathing, animals, is different. It disregards and disrespects them and their lives in the
most glorious way possible. It's incredible how humans can be so inhumane, pun intended. |
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All modern farming is appalling; chickens are just the most publicised. Such is the nature of
meat-eaters that it is impossible to suggest that the industry should be humane; too many would
disagree. |
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I cant stand all you animal rights activists who keep arguing that commercial livestock is treated
cruelly. Living in the wild is much worse. |
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If my understanding is correct, free range chickens have been free to do what chickens enjoy
doing... Only to have that freedom taken away from them in order for you to be fed. However the
other type of chicken, they are shielded from the outside world, the only thing they know about is
eating and then they will be killed they will never have and never will lose anything. So what
people for eating free range chickens are saying is that (I do only eat free range btw) they feel
better taking the life and the eating of a chicken that has experienced and is enjoying the freedom
they have compared to taking the life of a chicken that is born and killed as a means of feeding
humans. |
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I agree with eelmonkey, stop complaining animal lover. |
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I read a study that found that chickens who were kept couped up in crowded rooms where they couldn't
move were actually happier than chickens who were bred in free range circumstances.
They tested the stress hormones of both groups of chickens and found that the first group had
considerably low levels of stress hormones compared to the second group. They thought it was
probably because chickens who are couped up together don't have to fear predators and they don't
have to worry about finding food or mates. |
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Its a chicken. Get over it. |
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