It doesn’t matter how well you treat it while it lives, if you’re killing it for food, it’s not humane. This bird had a full and happy life.
See, what they’re saying is we’re the chickens. We have created lives that are no better than the confined, limited lives that chickens have. We think we’re in control, but we are just feeding the machine that sucks out our souls and lifeblood.
Or:
Chicken Nuggets are people!
Reminds me of that “Human chicken” hand-lettered sign in a Chinese restaurant years ago.
Normal chickens raised for food live a life of confinement to a tiny cage. Some people prefer that the chickens they eat to have a more varied life. Taken to its logical conclusion…
Yeah I took it as the artist mocking the “free-range” trend. If people think that the meat of an uncaged chicken tastes better, why not take it a step further and give them a full life?
I think the cartoonist has taken it a step even further and is saying, don’t eat them at all. That’s the full Humane Chicken.
It’s a classic trope of starting a normal-sounding list, and then progressively get more absurd.
Looks like ideas sketched out for a song.
The term is “soup hen”
I don’t have an ethical problem with eating meat, but I do prefer that the animals I eat didn’t suffer during their lives. My wife and I belong to a “meat CSA” which sells us beef and lamb and chicken from cows and sheep and chickens who lived actual lives in fields doing farm animal things like “walking around” and “eating grass” or, in the case of the chickens “eating bugs and whatever else.”
And then they were killed, butchered, packaged, and sent to us.
If I knew that the chicken not only had a chance to wander around a field and eat bugs and fly just enough to roost in trees and stuff, but also managed to get an education, have a family, and become a respected member of its community? Like I said — I don’t mind that animals were killed so that I can eat them, but it’s important to me that they had actual lives beforehand. So, yeah, I’d eat that chicken.
I agree with Arthur and narmitaj, humane killing is an oxymoron. I am currently living in the land of free range chickens, they are everywhere, but from what I’ve been told, they are too tough to eat. I refer to the little baby chicks as cat food, but even the feral cats are losing this battle. Actually, the hens aren’t so bad, but the roosters are a royal pain. Our complex recently hired someone to come through and remove the chickens – over 40 in a couple hours work. He didn’t say what happens to them, and we didn’t ask. We still hear roosters crowing at 4:00am, but least they aren’t right outside our window.
All I can think of is Gilbert Shelton’s comic “Set My Chickens Free”.
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It doesn’t matter how well you treat it while it lives, if you’re killing it for food, it’s not humane. This bird had a full and happy life.
See, what they’re saying is we’re the chickens. We have created lives that are no better than the confined, limited lives that chickens have. We think we’re in control, but we are just feeding the machine that sucks out our souls and lifeblood.
Or:
Chicken Nuggets are people!
Reminds me of that “Human chicken” hand-lettered sign in a Chinese restaurant years ago.
Normal chickens raised for food live a life of confinement to a tiny cage. Some people prefer that the chickens they eat to have a more varied life. Taken to its logical conclusion…
Yeah I took it as the artist mocking the “free-range” trend. If people think that the meat of an uncaged chicken tastes better, why not take it a step further and give them a full life?
I think the cartoonist has taken it a step even further and is saying, don’t eat them at all. That’s the full Humane Chicken.
It’s a classic trope of starting a normal-sounding list, and then progressively get more absurd.
Looks like ideas sketched out for a song.
The term is “soup hen”
I don’t have an ethical problem with eating meat, but I do prefer that the animals I eat didn’t suffer during their lives. My wife and I belong to a “meat CSA” which sells us beef and lamb and chicken from cows and sheep and chickens who lived actual lives in fields doing farm animal things like “walking around” and “eating grass” or, in the case of the chickens “eating bugs and whatever else.”
And then they were killed, butchered, packaged, and sent to us.
If I knew that the chicken not only had a chance to wander around a field and eat bugs and fly just enough to roost in trees and stuff, but also managed to get an education, have a family, and become a respected member of its community? Like I said — I don’t mind that animals were killed so that I can eat them, but it’s important to me that they had actual lives beforehand. So, yeah, I’d eat that chicken.
I agree with Arthur and narmitaj, humane killing is an oxymoron. I am currently living in the land of free range chickens, they are everywhere, but from what I’ve been told, they are too tough to eat. I refer to the little baby chicks as cat food, but even the feral cats are losing this battle. Actually, the hens aren’t so bad, but the roosters are a royal pain. Our complex recently hired someone to come through and remove the chickens – over 40 in a couple hours work. He didn’t say what happens to them, and we didn’t ask. We still hear roosters crowing at 4:00am, but least they aren’t right outside our window.
All I can think of is Gilbert Shelton’s comic “Set My Chickens Free”.