Originally posted by: cKGunslinger
Originally posted by: mwtgg
American poultry and egg producers using battery cages and crowded floor systems remove one half to two thirds of the birds' beaks to reduce "cannibalistic" pecking. Cannibalism--compulsive picking, not eating--is an abnormal behavior of domestic fowl kept in close, crowded confinement. It results from the abnormal restriction of the normal span of activities of a healthy, ranging fowl.
So they are debeaked to keep them from pecking each other, creating wounds that could get infected and cause sickness, or just flat-out killing the bird?
Those bastards!
Next thing you know, they'll be forcing prisoners to cut their fingernails so they can't scratch each other to death. Teh horror! :roll:
Oh, c'mon, you can't possibly think that's civil, OR a valid analogy.
A closer analogy would be cutting prisoners' fingers off ENTIRELY to prevent them from doing anything.
Here's the crazy thing - if you just raise the chickens on, oh, I dunno, a FARM where they can go OUTSIDE instead of a warehouse....guess what? They don't try to peck each other to death! How about that! And if you don't crowd them together in cages with poor sanitation, air circulation, lighting, and feed...you know what's cool? You don't have to pump them full of antibiotics to prevent uncontrollable spread of disease!
