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Well, I think it's extremely screwed up. I think it's wrong to use animals regardless of how they're treated; treating them more "humanely" isn't the answer. The dairy industry is so extremely screwed up; continually raping cows, taking their babies away from them hours or days after birth, then killing them when they're no longer profitable.

I would adopt a chicken from a Farm Sanctuary; but not to eat it's eggs. I don't view animals as commodities. Chickens eat their unfertilized eggs to regain the nutrients they lost producing them.

& soy milk is a drink made from pressing soy beans and extracting the liquid. It is generally sweetened and fortified with vitamin D, calcium, and vitamin B12. It's available in many flavors - chocolate, plain, vanilla, chai, coffee, eggnog, etc. Most grocery stores carry soy milk.

BOLTHOUSE FARMS!! Vanilla Chai with soy milk is my favorite drink. Even though it's not cheap, I can't resist getting it everytime I'm in the grocery store. I've also fallen in love with their mango lemonade. Yummm.

On topic: I volunteer at a wildlife rehab, and in addition to the several wild animals there, the owner also keeps a chicken coop with copped chickens, roosters, and turkeys, as well as several free-range chickens and roosters. They are all fed an awesome diet consisting of fruits, veggies, and the typical chicken scratch. They're pretty spoiled. Every so often we'll go in the coop and collect eggs to use for the raccoons, opossums, and other omnivores. I was unaware that they ate their own eggs, but we do take their eggs (when they're not sitting on them) when we see them. Some we let hatch, and I'm sure some escape into the stomach of some of the chickens. Neat. They seem to be very heatlhy, so I guess that's the case.

I personally eat eggs very little, but when I do, I always splurge and buy the free range "ultra-organic" eggs (you know, the ones that are like $4-5 a dozen x.x) because I assume that these chickens are also raised the same way.

Animal cruelty makes me cry. Literally. I read a story about a cat named ugly, and cried for five minutes because the story was so sad. Even watching it in front of my face, makes me want to kill every single cattle rancher out there, and set all the cows loose. I love PETA to death, and I fully support what they do for animals, hence the logo and link being in my siggy. If only I could get some more money and a prepaid credit card to get some awesome items for my birthday! But anyways, I think that PETA really needs all the celebrity supporters out there, and as much media attention as they can get, because the truth really does need to be exposed about meat eating, and how unhealthy it is for you.

Stand in the rain, stand your ground...

O_O

Damn, I cried, too... D;

Stand up when it's all crashing down.

i saw a video of the animal crulety in slaughter houses an dit made me cry too. After seeing that i turned vegetarian.

I remember looking at that page when I was first considering going veg.


I actually had some chickens growing up. We lived in a residential area, but our backyard was big enough for them to run around in. There was three hens at first, but then my grandma gave us some fertilized eggs because her chickens wouldn't hatch them. The chickens were our little gardeners who ate all the bad bugs and fertilized the grass. The only problem is that they "fertilized" our wooden sun deck too and ate the cat's food. stare

i wish i had any space for chickens.

shinigami- that's horrible about your parents. why won't they let you give up meat?