Green Daily

Not going to lie, I thought that was hilarious. And I agree, even if McDonalds changes it's killing method, it's still killing and Peta still won't be happy. I haven't eaten McDonalds since Super-Size me came out, so for me, sure we can complain as much as we'd like about how cruel McyD's is to their chicken's but the killing method isn't going to make them any healthier anyway. So lets just get rid of the chain all together.

Lindsey
http://www.Greenjoyment.com

Reply

If McDonald's went to less cruel methods, would PETA embrace them? No. But to use that as a justification combined with the fact that the chickens end up dead either way is abhorrent. These creatures feel pain. They feel fear. They are capable of suffering.

Ask yourself - if there was no way around it and you were going to die, would it matter if you were tortured first? I mean, you're going to die anyway.
It's a pretty safe assumption that you'd rather die with the least quantity of pain and fear possible. (And, to top it off, you'd rather *live* as free as possible - not trapped in a cage with peers where you cannot even spread your wings; not have your beak seared off while you're still a child; not watch your peers pulled from their cages and thrown against walls; not watch your peers' children be thrown into trash bags and left to suffocate.

Regardless if PETA is going love your decision and as a result, send you kushy love letters and regardless of the fact that the chickens (and you) are all dead in the end anyway - assuming you would like to live your life (and death) without pain and terror, why should other creatures not be granted this 'privilege'?

Reply

Can we not talk about PETA? I am firmly in the "hate" camp, and I feel that their ridiculous antics are actually more harmful than helpful. I'm not terribly upset about this, but their repeated and disgusting misogyny and their shock tactics tend to make vegans and vegetarians look like a**holes and push people farther from the movement. Sometimes I wonder if they're actually working FOR the meat industry. I mean, what kind of sick, horrible people would consider it appropriate to try to publish ads comparing Robert Pickton's brutal murders of women to the pigs he killed on his farms? So please, lets just ignore PETA.

Reply