The true cost of cheap chicken

[Grandma Death]

I live in a house where no meat is eaten at all-even though I eat meat outside of the home. I certainly won't be eating chicken ANY longer unless its free range after watching Channel Four last night

 

[free spirit]

It might be silly to you, but perhaps you know more about it than do I. From your link:


. . suggests chickens can feel pain - and that's if you interpret avoidance as a reaction to pain, rather than one of several other possibilities. As I say above, I really don't know and am open to any available science.

are you seriously attempting to question whether or not chickens can feel pain?

 

[scifisam]

It might be silly to you, but perhaps you know more about it than do I. From your link:


. . suggests chickens can feel pain - and that's if you interpret avoidance as a reaction to pain, rather than one of several other possibilities. As I say above, I really don't know and am open to any available science.

Forgot to respond to this.

It wasn't avoidance; the chickens chose the food that was laced with morphine, which indicates that they wanted pain relief.

Those animals do have a working nervous system and pain receptors like we do. It would take more effort to prove that they don't feel pain.

Course, they probably don't have the same conscious realisation of pain as we do, where we usually know the cause and how long it's going to last and so on, but sometimes that can lessen the pain.

I didn't think people who argue for battery farming* were of the opinion that chickens don't feel pain - I thought it was more about their pain not being important.


*Not saying you're one of those, btw.

 

[TAE]

This sounds like good news:

Britain will press ahead with outlawing the production of battery-farmed eggs by 2012, the government has confirmed.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7180018.stm

 

[TAE]

Following yesterdays TV show, my wife has agreed that battery-farmed chicken are now finally off the menu.