mercurynews.com — At many egg farms, chickens that are too old to produce are suffocated with carbon dioxide and then dumped in a compost heap. Apparently though, "zombie birds" that managed to survive have been spotted emerging from mass graves at Northern California farms...
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perkonisDec 4, 2006
I was really hoping there would be a video...
agentmullDec 5, 2006
Move over here, better reception.
zoplaxDec 5, 2006
Why? The chickens emerging Lazarus-like from the bowels of the chicken farm aren't the same ones that get deep-fried and put on your dinner plate... or... ARE they???!
electricketchupDec 5, 2006
Zoplax: yes, the understand suffering... they've been living it the whole life (in factory farms)
venom8599Dec 5, 2006
It's not murder. They're chickens. Get over it.
woodgeDec 5, 2006
Please insert 25 cents to try again.
Closed AccountDec 5, 2006
Send the vegans into space!
azurechaosDec 7, 2006
@venowwhat an utterly thoughtful comment.
utopiancomplexDec 7, 2006
its less wasteful than putting them in the ground, in a box, so they don't even add nutrients back to the soil. Why do we need to have this reverence to the dead? And it isn't like soilent green because we are not killing people to do it, we are not collecting them in garbage trucks,and I didn't say anything about doing it in some secretive way
chatty82Dec 12, 2006
"I have lived long and I have lived well," said the chickens.
bigkittyDec 13, 2006
If they had used carbon monoxide, rather than carbon dioxide, the chickens would probably have fallen asleep, then died, without being aware of anything. How do I know about this? Well...many years ago, I was in an old ramshackle apartment building with steam heat, in which there was evidently some sort of mishap having to do with the fire in the furnace boiler. Everybody in the building, myself included, suddenly got very sleepy. I dropped off to sleep on the sofa where I'd been sitting, not suspecting anything amiss. Fortunately, the CO never reached a high enough concentration to kill any of us. In the morning, someone came in from outside, opened a door to the furnace room and brought the situation under control. At that time, we all woke up. It left me with a two-week hangover, but I seem to have recovered (I think).Nine lives, I guess....
starguyDec 22, 2006
MUST WATCH FILM on Chicken Farming: Wegman's Cruelty. Posted by the Chicken Liberation Front<a class="user" href="http://watch.anarchy-tv.com/watch.shtml?http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=-6598954012979330894&hl=en">http://watch.anarchy-tv.com/watch.shtml?http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=-6598954012979330894&hl=en</a>
ericdknappMay 22, 2008
Mmmm ... Zombie Chickens ... Seriously - large poultry production is pretty grossLess Seriously - Zombie chickens make great literary fiction. Yes, I am shamelessly promoting my book, Cluck, which is about zombie chickens, the struggles between good and evil, and the conflicts between duty and guilt. www.CluckTheBook.comIt just won an award, too. Yay!