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| 2003-10-25 |
| I worked for years in the poultry industry, mostly for Tyson, doing anything from catching the chickens from the houses to slitting their throats in the killing room of the slaughter houses. I was so disgusted and enraged by my experiences at their slaughter plant in Grannis, Arkansas that I came forward with a sworn complaint against the company, the plant manager, and several workers, and have now set up a website to further spread the word of how the greed of this corporate giant is victimizing society and animals alike. [snipped. Thanks for your opinion.] Virgil Butler |
| Posted by:Virgil Butler |
| #14 Do we really owe these folks the time of day?? Rick, we owe them the right to open their mouths, we still retain the right to plug our ears. If some touchy-feely vegan wants to whine about chickens that's cool w/me....I'll just tell them about the beautiful 8-point I shot last week....mmmm them's good eats! Ted Nugent for President. |
| Posted by: Jarhead 2003-10-26 12:14:01 AM |
| #13 The rights activist fighting for chickens are the same people defending a man's right to pull the feeding tube from his defenseless wife so that she may starve to death. Do we really owe these folks the time of day?? |
| Posted by: RickA 2003-10-25 10:51:04 PM |
| #12 On my first ship I was in charge of the sewage system because I owned repair department - kind of a fringe benefit. I got to know quite a bit about excrement in general. My advice to Virgil is: in case case of an explosion in a chicken coop, Super Hose recommends closing your mouth and eyes immediately. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2003-10-25 9:19:20 PM |
| #11 I can truthfully say I loathe chickens I believe anyone who has ever had to live around chickens hates them. One of the jobs my father had around the house growing up in the country was, each afternoon, to pick a chicken out of the yard, wring its neck, and carry it to my grandmother to prepare the evening meal. To this day he won't willingly eat chicken. |
| Posted by: Steve White 2003-10-25 6:11:21 PM |
| #10 But, Virgil, wasn't Tyson a top supporter of the Clintons? If human rights activists can ignore abuses when their side does it, as in Sudan, Iran, NK, ad nauseum; then animal rights activists can surely do the same. |
| Posted by: Atomic Conspiracy 2003-10-25 5:29:21 PM |
| #9 Cripes. Let me go take a nap on a Saturday afternoon, and what happens? |
| Posted by: Fred 2003-10-25 5:07:18 PM |
| #8 I can truthfully say I loathe chickens I believe anyone who has ever had to live around chickens hates them. Filthy, cruel animals. They deserve to be slaughtered painfully and eaten. OP -- I dislike Tyson because they inject their chickens with sulfur water. I suspect it's just the natural water at the processing plant for this area, but it still sucks. |
| Posted by: Robert Crawford 2003-10-25 4:16:53 PM |
| #7 Notice the obiligatory attack on the Clean Air Act? This guy is a fraud. Bush wants to eliminate some of the excessive stupidity that made its way into the act in the first place, so that those plants that want to try to clean up their act can afford to do so without spending half their funds on "environmental impact studies". We are a nation over-regulated and over-taxed. The idiots like the one writing this article are part of the reason behind it. In their mind, every little act needs to be controlled by the Federal government. I don't doubt that some of the things that Tyson does is bad - remember, too, that Tyson and the Clintons were so closely in bed together you couldn't stick Tyson without pinning the other two with the same needle. My family raised chickens as part of our food chain. We also raised cows, pigs, rabbits, and turkeys for food, as well as a half-acre garden. I ate WELL as a kid, because we did do those things. So did my grandparents and a half-dozen other relatives. Now, it's virtually impossible for anyone to do that unless they live 40 miles from town, down a one-lane country road, and the signpost's down. The people at PETA are idiots that should be ignored. They have no clue as to what life is like in the real world. We in this country have it so easy - even the poor among us are better fed than many "middle class" people in other nations. Unfortunately, PETA wants to change that, in order for them to 'feel good' about themselves, while they have no idea how their ideas and beliefs will hurt the rest of us. ANY group that wants to FORCE someone else to do something because that group thinks it's a good idea is the moral equivalent of the Islamofascists that want to FORCE us to believe the way they do. Let's just kill them both - they don't understand that the freedom to choose what to do, when and where to do it, and when to REFRAIN from doing something, are personal rights granted by God, and their little prattle to the contrary violates our individual rights. That makes them enemies not to be tolerated. |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2003-10-25 3:43:44 PM |
| #6 Living in Hawai'i where the chickens run wild and start crowing at 2:00 am, I can truthfully say I loathe chickens and where can I get some of those dry ice bombs? Chickens are nothing but vermin with feathers and the only good thing you can say about them is that they taste like rattlesnake. |
| Posted by: Mercutio 2003-10-25 3:13:45 PM |
| #5 Better than a chicken? Does that make him a turkey? |
| Posted by: Dishman 2003-10-25 3:05:47 PM |
| #4 This corporate control over our land, water, and air as well as the food many of us eat has got to stop. = How many times must they insist on unfurling the Hammer and Sickle until they realize Communism doesn't work? |
| Posted by: Raj 2003-10-25 2:56:41 PM |
| #3 We were not evacuated for a bomb threat until a bomb was found and the sheriff ordered Tyson to do so. Where'd the bomb come from? Anyone want to make a guess? |
| Posted by: Robert Crawford 2003-10-25 2:02:45 PM |
| #2 Great. Another social climber trying to improve his station by showing how much better he is than a chicken. Thanks for the entertainment. Now, go back to your coop. |
| Posted by: badanov 2003-10-25 1:57:33 PM |
| #1 Peshawar. |
| Posted by: someone 2003-10-25 1:54:47 PM |