Re:Whole Foods is struggling
by LeifCarrotson on Sunday February 12, 2017 @09:22AM
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When it's being de-feathered, the chicken is dead. Why should this either affect people's reactions? Or, given that people are irrational and will react to the 'suffering' of a chicken's dead body, why should it be shown to the public as a component of the process? It's not 'unkind' to the chicken.
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Re:Whole Foods is struggling
by colanderman on Sunday February 12, 2017 @09:30AM
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Check out how chickens are treated while they're alive and get back to me about cruelty.
Hint: they don't run around in happy green fields.
> Hint: they don't run around in happy green fields.
Some of them do. I actually check the code on eggs before buying to make sure I'm getting those from free-roaming chickens.
Re:Whole Foods is struggling
by colanderman on Sunday February 12, 2017 @02:43PM
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No, they do not, even if they're so-called "free range". I don't know about the EU, but in the US that term is marketing bullshit: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_range#Free-range_poultr...
EU regulates what conditions "free range" has to meet to be called like that. I am sorry that it's different in US.
The code on eggs?
Every egg needs to be marked in the EU, to indicate the method of production (organic vs. free-range vs. cage) and country of origin: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egg_marking
Thanks!
Some do run around in happy green fields. That's what the step rating on the meat packaging at Whole Foods can tell you.
Re:Whole Foods is struggling
by colanderman on Sunday February 12, 2017 @02:42PM
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No, even so-called "free range" chickens do not. It's a bullshit marketing term in the US: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_range#Free-range_poultr...
Not to mention that farmed chickens are bred to be so fat they can barely walk anyway: https://www.wired.com/2008/02/chickens-cant-w/