Frighteningly Efficient Livestock Practices
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I'm not sure how to describe this device, other than: a cross between a vacuum cleaner and a conveyor belt, used to pick up chickens. (No, there's no vacuum involved.)
Be sure and check the video. (No blood or guts; just chickens getting thrown around in a creepily efficient manner.) Those birds are going at a pretty good clip; I hope the guy controlling the tail end of it has good aim.
(via Boing Boing)
The factory farm is ridiculous... Those animals shouldn't exist in such numbers. To give you a couple examples, the waste produced by chickens in the state of Arkansas for one day contains 300 pounds of arsenic that is promptly washed into the water supply. Pig farms in Utah produce more feces than all people in LA County. Again, this contaminates the water supply.
The whole thing is an environmental nightmare that gets zero attention from the media. I hope that all you fat asses out there eating your 20 piece chicken McNuggets every night think that it is worth it. Let us all drink a glass of 50 ppb As to it!
Posted by: O'dell on March 5, 2005 4:29 PM | permalinkNo more comments! Either someone has violated Godwin's Law, I'm tired of the discussion or, most likely, the ten-week window has closed. You can, however, contact me through email.