If you think a chicken dinner is an excellent alternative to mad beef,
you may want to think again. Eating animals makes you fat and unhealthy.
Perhaps the only way to ensure that a chicken dinner won't poison your
family is to throw it away.
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About 90 percent of all chickens sold are contaminated with salmonella
bacteria or campylobacter. One out of three supermarket birds is
contaminated with salmonella. Recent statistics show that every year 6.5
million people get sick and more than 6,000 people die from eating
contaminated meat.

Chicken is higher than red meat in heterocyclic amines, the compounds
shown to raise cancer risk.
A 3.5 ounce serving of beef and a 3.5 ounce serving of white chicken
meat have the same amount of cholesterol: 85 milligrams. Chicken has as
much fat (anywhere from 20% to 70% fat depending on the cut and whether
or not it has skin) and cholesterol as beef.

From Shell to Hell: Chickens are the most abused animals on the face of
the Earth.

Chickens may not be as cuddly as beagles, but they suffer just as much.

Chickens raised for food are genetically bred to grow so large so fast
that their legs cannot withstand their weight.

Countless birds slowly starve to death within inches of food when they
become crippled and are unable to move.

Chickens are crammed into crowded sheds with tens of thousands of other
birds where disease, smothering and heart attacks are common. After a
hellish ride crammed into small crates, oftentimes in weather extremes,
they are hung upside down and their throats are cut, often while they
are fully conscious.

Millions of male chicks--because they don't lay eggs and are not
profitable meat chickens--are tossed into garbage tubs or large plastic
bags to be crushed or suffocated. Others are dumped into augers that
grind up and mutilate the baby birds before tossing them into waiting
fertilizer trucks. Dying and mutilated chicks are dumped onto
neighboring fields with manure spreaders. Writes one eyewitness: "A
horrible peeping came from the pile."

The egg industry, in its tireless quest to automate production
techniques, has used industrial strength garbage disposals to mash
unwanted chicks. According to an eyewitness research scientist: "Even
after 20 seconds, there were only partly damaged animals with whole
skulls" in the disposal.

The same hatcheries that provide chicks for factory farms provide chicks
for "free-range" egg farms.

Each year 8 billion chickens are slaughtered to feed America's meat
addiction and millions more die from heat exhaustion, disease, freezing,
or accidents during transport.

Within 24 hours a chick within an egg develops a tiny, beating heart.
Left to its mother, it would join its siblings from day one in an
inquisitive search for food. In the eyes of the poultry industry this
baby is one of two things: a commodity or garbage.

Birds are not machines in the assembly line. They are creatures who can
feel pain and fear. There is no fundamental difference between the
chickens and turkeys you eat and the birds you feed in your own
backyard.

"...The cruelty, greed, suffering, madness, Holocaust-like conditions,
impoverishment
of culture after culture; the unheralded massacre of tens of billions of
precious souls each year, and for what? A few seconds of pleasure in one
of the five nerve endings of the human tongue, a guilt-free anatomical
anomaly that should have been excised by evolution 3 million years ago.
And hence, I would hasten to add that anyone who claims to be an
environmentalist--and yet consumes animal products--is
pitiful."--Michael Tobias, author, television producer, humanitarian

We urge people to take individual responsibility by refusing to buy
chicken.

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:

We urge people to take individual responsibility by refusing to buy
chicken.




Yeah Just rent them instead.

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And the beet goes on! (or under)
-me just a while ago

On Sun, 28 Dec 2003 08:09:50 -0800 (PST),
(Not Available) wrote:

If you think a chicken dinner is an excellent alternative to mad beef,
you may want to think again. Eating animals makes you fat and unhealthy.
Perhaps the only way to ensure that a chicken dinner won't poison your
family is to throw it away.
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We urge people to take individual responsibility by refusing to buy
chicken.

Enjoying your trolling, Sharkbait?


Practice safe eating - always use condiments