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TOP 10 REASONS NOT TO EAT CHICKENS

1. ‘Bird Brain’ Is a Compliment
Several recent studies have shown that chickens are bright animals, able to solve complex problems, demonstrate self-control, and worry about the future. Chickens are smarter than cats or dogs and even do some things that have not yet been seen in mammals other than primates. Dr. Chris Evans, who studies animal behavior and communication at Macquarie University in Australia, says, “As a trick at conferences, I sometimes list these attributes, without mentioning chickens, and people think I’m talking about monkeys.” Dr. John Webster of Bristol University found that chickens are capable of understanding cause and effect and that when chickens learn something new, they pass on that knowledge (i.e., they have what scientists call “culture”).

How does your IQ compare to that of a chicken?
http://www.goveg.com/f-hiddenliveschickens_brainy.asp

2. All Drugged Up
Quite simply, chickens are the most abused animals on the planet. Chickens raised for their flesh are packed by the thousands into massive sheds. They are fed large amounts of antibiotics and drugs to keep them alive in conditions that would otherwise kill them. The antibiotics make chickens grow so large, so fast that they often become crippled under their own weight. This reckless use of antibiotics also makes drugs less effective for treating humans by speeding up the development of drug-resistant bacteria.

Learn more about the overuse of antibiotics in chickens.
http://www.goveg.com/contamination_antibiotics.asp

3. Scalded to Death
Only seven weeks after they are born, chickens are crowded onto trucks that transport them to the slaughterhouse. Tens of millions of chickens have their wings and legs broken in the process every year. They are trucked through all weather extremes, sometimes over hundreds of miles, without any food or water. At slaughter, chickens are hung upside-down and have their throats slit, and they are often scalded to death in defeathering tanks.

Watch undercover footage of chickens who are mutilated and scalded to death at a Tyson slaughterhouse.
http://www.goveg.com/factoryFarming_chickens.asp

4. They Don’t Even Get a Lawyer
The billions of chickens killed each year are not protected by a single federal law—the “Humane Slaughter Act” exempts birds, even though there are more than 55 times as many chickens slaughtered each year as pigs and cows combined! Chickens raised for their flesh have their sensitive beaks cut off with a hot blade without any painkillers. These intelligent animals spend their entire lives in filthy sheds with tens of thousands of other birds, each getting about as much space as a sheet of paper, where intense crowding and confinement lead to outbreaks of disease. If factory-farm owners treated cats and dogs like they treat chickens, they would go to jail for cruelty to animals.

Learn more about the routine abuse of chickens in factory farms.
http://www.goveg.com/factoryFarming_chickens.asp

5. Do You Want Poop With That?
A USDA study found that more than 99 percent of broiler chicken carcasses sold in stores had detectable levels of E. coli, indicating fecal contamination. In other words, if you’re eating chicken flesh, you’re almost certainly eating poop. Consumer Reports states there are “1.1 million or more Americans sickened each year by undercooked, tainted chicken.” Chicken flesh is also loaded with dangerous levels of arsenic, which can cause cancer, dementia, neurological problems, and other ailments in humans. Men’s Health magazine recently ranked supermarket chicken number one in their list of the “10 Dirtiest Foods” because of the high rate of bacterial contamination.

Learn more about how eating chicken and meat puts your health at risk.
http://www.goveg.com/contamination.asp

6. Lose the Fat, Avoid the Flu
Both the Center for Disease Control and the World Health Organization say that if the avian flu virus spreads to the United States, it could be caught simply by eating undercooked chicken flesh or eggs, eating food prepared on the same cutting board as infected meat or eggs, or even touching eggshells contaminated with the disease. Chicken flesh and eggs are packed with cholesterol—a 3-ounce piece of skinless chicken breast meat has as much cholesterol as beef, and just one egg has nearly three times as much! This cholesterol, along with a high intake of animal fats, blocks arteries and causes heart disease. Vegan foods, on the other hand, are all cholesterol-free and much lower in fat!
http://www.goveg.com/birdflu.asp
http://www.goveg.com/heartdisease.asp

7. The Most Dangerous Factory Job in America
According to the U.S. Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics, slaughterhouse workers are more than three times more likely to suffer injuries while working than workers in other manufacturing jobs, and they suffer a rate of repetitive stress injury that is 35 times higher than that in other manufacturing jobs. The industry refuses to make working conditions safer by slowing line speeds or buying appropriate safety gear, which amounts to what Human Rights Watch calls “systematic human rights violations embedded in meat and poultry industry employment.” Big chicken companies such as Tyson and Perdue also exploit contract factory-farm operators, whom Auburn University economist Robert Taylor calls “serfs with a mortgage.” Contract factory farmers are forced to foot the bill for building and maintaining massive factory farms, which puts them deeply into debt and can drive them to financial ruin if their company cancels future contracts with them.

Learn why Human Rights Watch calls meat-packing “the most dangerous factory job in America.”
http://www.goveg.com/workerRights.asp

8. Motherly Love
In a natural setting, a hen will cluck to her chicks before they even hatch while she sits on the eggs in her nest. They peep back to her and to each other through their shells. In factory farms, eggs are taken from the mother as soon as they are laid and put in large incubators—a chick will never meet his or her parents. Hens prefer to have private nests hidden from predators and will often go without food or water in order to obtain a private nest. This demonstrates the fact that hens will sacrifice their own comfort if it means protecting their chicks.
Learn more about the personalities of these interesting animals.
http://www.goveg.com/f-hiddenliveschickens.asp

9. Chicken Sh*t
Raising 9 billion chickens in factory farms each year produces enormous amounts of excrement. Oregon State University agriculture professor Peter Cheeke says that factory farming amounts to “a frontal assault on the environment,” which leads to widespread fecal ground and water pollution. Because chickens are fed massive amounts of drugs, hormones, and pesticides, these chemicals are also found in high concentrations in their feces, which means that fecal pollution from chicken farms is especially disastrous for the environment. In West Virginia and Maryland, for example, scientists have recently discovered that male fish are growing ovaries, and they suspect that this freakish deformity is the result of factory-farm runoff from drug-laden chicken feces.
Learn more about factory farming’s toll on the Earth.
http://www.goveg.com/environment.asp

10. Better Than the Original
Do you like the taste of chicken flesh but don’t like the suffering?

No problem—try some of the fantastic alternatives now available, such as Boca Chik’n Nuggets, Gardenburger’s Meatless Buffalo Chicken Wings, and Yves Veggie Chicken Burgers. These super-tasty foods are high in protein, cruelty- and cholesterol- free, and available at your local supermarket. Instead of eggs, try tofu scramble, whip up some vegan French toast, or check out our egg-free baking tips.

CHICKEN FREE RECIPES:
http://www.vegcooking.com/searchRecipes.asp

For Egg replacement:
http://www.vegcooking.com/vegcooking-eggreplace.asp

For Buffalo Wings:
http://www.vegcooking.com/recipeshow.asp?RequestID=1282&Search=...

For Savory Chicken Pot Pie:
http://www.vegcooking.com/recipeshow.asp?RequestID=383&Search=c...

For Chicken Fried Steaks:
http://www.vegcooking.com/recipeshow.asp?RequestID=999&Search=c...

What Do Great Minds Say About Eating Peices Of Animal Carcass?

Paul McCartney-Singer,former Beatles guitarist:

"One may not eat what has a face."

"I believe in peaceful protest and not eating animals is a protest free of violence."
"During a Sunday lunch we happened to look out of the kitchen window at our young lambs playing happily in the fields. Glancing down at our plates, we suddenly realized we were eating the leg of an animal which had until recently been playing in the field itself. We looked at each other and said: "Wait a minute, we love these sheep-they're such gentle creatures. So why are we eating them?" Later, on vacation in Barbados, we drove behind a truck loaded with magnificent hens that disappeared into a poultry plant. Since then we no longer eat something that has to be killed beforehand." If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be vegetarian. We feel better about ourselves and better about the animals, knowing we're not contributing to their pain."

Albert Einstein - "Nothing will increase the chance of survival on earth as a step toward a vegetarian diet."

Alice Walker - (1944) American author: "As we spoke one day about freedom and justice, we were at the dinner table eating steaks. I 'm eating misery, I thought, as I took the first bite. Then I spit it out."

Joseph von Gorres-(1776-1848) German author
"The one who wants to go beyond normal life shuns bloody food and does not chose death for his dining master."

Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) 16th US President
"Iam in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being."

Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904-19910 Jewish American author, Nobel prize winner 1978
Where animals are concerned, everyone becomes a Nazi every day is Treblinka for the animals."
"What Nazis did with the Jews is the same as what people do with animals."

Berth von Suttner (1843-1914) Austrian pacifics: Nobel Peace Prize 1905
" I am convinced that the time will come when no one will want to nourish himself with carcasses, when no one will be willing to do the work of slaughtering. How many among you are there already who never would have eaten meat if they themselves had to plunge the knife into the throat of the animal in question!"
"From one hundred educated and sensitive people, already today ninety would never eat meat again if they had to kill or stab to death the animal that they eat themselves."
The one who cannot hear the victims screaming or see them jerking, but who, as soon as he is far enough away not to see or hear, is indifferent to the fact that it screams and jerks, has nerves indeed -but he has no heart."

Theodor Heuss (1884-1963) 1st President of the Republic of Germany
"Hunting is merely a cowardly circumlocutiion for the especially cowardly murder of fellow creatures who don't have a chance. Hunting is a variant of human mental illness."

Sigmund Freud - (1856-1939) Austrian nerve doctor, founder of pschoanalysis
"I prefer the society of animals to that of humans. Certainly, a wild animal is terrible, but meanness is the prerogative of a civilized person."

Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948), leader of the Indian independence movement,Nobel Prize winner, 1913
"I feel most deeply that spiritual growth compels us in a certain phase to stop slaughtering our fellow creatures for the satisfaction of our physical wants."
"The Earth has enough for the needs of every single person, but not for his greed."
This is a poem I wrote for breed-ban enthusiasts:
A Poem to all Breed-Ban Enthusiasts
Emma Ridinger April 12, 2008

Sure there are stories of things torn apart,
And we understand that some dogs do that.
But that’s not what I aim to tell you about.
It’s the fact that plenty of dogs don’t.

You seem to like to hear the stories
Where a Pit Bull rips a women’s throat out
Or a Chow attacks a child.
But what about the dogs who do not?

Have you ever heard the tale of a “bad breed” dog
Who saved his owner from bleeding to death?
Or the Saint Bernard who pulled a girl out of quicksand?
These things happen, too.

Ever heard of the German Shepherd
Who dug through a door to get his
Owner out of a fire? That dog saved his
Family’s life, not destroyed it.

Or the Pit Bull mix, hours from death in Ontario
Who was saved by a law enforcement official.
Now he’s a fighting dog.
But he fights crime, not others.

The Australian Shepherd, another working dog,
Who got his anorexic owner to get up each morning
Eat, than walk a little farther each day.
That woman lived because of him.

Have you ever heard of the Doberman, lost in the woods.
Broken ribs and a leg, hungry, too.
But that injured dog traveled many miles
To get back to his family. He was that loyal.

Elderly people have light brought to their
Day, from a Pit Bull cross therapy dog.
Giving these people a reason to live
Through their problems.

And you certainly know about Ground Zero,
Where a plane crashed into the World Trade Center.
People were there, fighting through debris
Accompanied by German Shepherds, Belgian Malinois, and others.

A blue-grey colored Pit Bull
Fended off attackers who
Open fired on her family.
One word: Loyal.

Yes, I grieve for those injured
By attacking dogs. But understand
That was an individual, not a breed,
Banning entire breeds is not the answer.

Once you ban Pit Bulls, & German Shepherds,
& Cane Corsos, & Rottweilers, & Mastiffs,
The dogfighters and drug junkies will just find another breed.
It’s their fault the dogs are vicious.

But instead if you enforce canine leash laws,
Responsible breeders, and go after the people
Behind the attacks, you may actually
Fix the problem,

Now, imagine you’re back in school. Learning
About to much buffalo hunting when the
Settlers moved west. Cause: To much hunting
Effect: To little buffalo

Now imagine this:
You get to the cause of the dog
Attacks, which are: Irresponsible ownership.
So you put the owner behind bars and take care of the singular dog.

If we did that, slowly, the dog attack numbers would
Diminish. And the good dog numbers
Would grow. Think about it, if you ban one breed,
I know you wouldn’t stop there.

Remember, dog is man’s
Best friend.
Imagine waking up tomorrow
With no best friend.

This video is the lyrics to one of my favorite songs "Dear Mr. President" by P!nk object width="425" height="355"> This Video Came from Colette This is from Andrea Miley's Page: Special Needs Pets Deserve Love too A farmer had some puppies he needed to sell. He painted a sign advertising the 4 pups. And set about nailing it to a post on the edge of his yard. As he was driving the last nail into the post, he felt a tug on his overalls. He looked down into the eyes of little boy. "Mister," he said, "I want to buy one of your puppies." "Well," said the farmer, as he rubbed the sweat off the back of his neck, "These puppies come from fine parents and cost a good deal of money." The boy dropped his head for a moment. Then reaching deep into his pocket, he pulled out a handful of change
and held it up to the farmer.

"I've got thirty-nine cents.
Is that enough to take a look?"

"Sure," said the farmer.
And with that he let out a whistle.
"Here, Dolly!" he called.
Out from the doghouse and down the ramp ran
Dolly followed by four little balls of fur.

The little boy pressed his face against the chain
link fence. His eyes danced with delight.

As the dogs made their way to the fence,
the little boy noticed something else stirring inside
the doghouse slowly another little ball appeared, this one
noticeably smaller. Down the ramp it slid. Then in a somewhat
awkward manner, the little pup began hobbling toward the others, doing
its best to catch up..

"I want that one," the little boy said, pointing to
the runt. The farmer knelt down at the boy's side and said,
"Son, you don't want that puppy. He will never be able to run and play
with you like these other dogs would."

With that the little boy stepped back from the
fence, reached down, and began rolling up one leg of his
trousers.

In doing so he revealed a steel brace running down
both sides of his leg attaching itself to a specially made shoe.

Looking back up at the farmer, he said,
"You see sir, I don't run too well myself,
and he will need someone who understands."

With tears in his eyes, the farmer reached down and
picked up the little pup.

Holding it carefully handed it to the little boy.

"How much?" asked the little boy. "No charge,"
answered the farmer, "There's no charge for love."

The world is full of people who need someone who
understands.

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Sorry about this folks, but I will not accept any more friend invites as I have heard news of a hacker. I will keep all my current friends, i just want to be safe. If you have any news on the hacker, the FBI is looking for them. Sorry again.

Hey People,

First of all, I have some LAVISHING NEWS! (finnaly!) The NH senetor, Judd Greg has sent me two letters telling me he does not approve of horse slaughter and it is illegal in the USA to transport dead horses to other countries for food. Second of all, I have a little message for you all........

A friend is not something to be wasted, nor is something as precious as an animal, wild or domestic. Animals are not ours to kill, maim, wear, or dispose of. They are there, still, through and through, forgiving us for the wars and terror we have caused, forgiving us again and again for deeds we should not be forgiven for. They truly are our best friends, and if you waste that delicate friendship, you might as well die for them, as they would for you.
Thanks, Renee for some of the pictures. :)


We see mountains grow from hills,
and trees grow tall.
We feel years go on,
only to grow old and fall.
Our howls echo,
through the tall trees.
They bounce off the mountains,
and are carried on the breeze.
The Native Americans respect us,
regard us as sacred and wise.
They see a piece of themselves,
when they gaze into our eyes.
This all may no longer be,
for our fight has begun.
We wish not to live,

in fear of hunters guns.

Thanks again, Renee, that was on your page :)