From: peyote@umiacs.umd.edu (Gary W. Flake)
Newsgroups: um.general,dc.general,rec.food.veg,talk.politics.animals
Subject: Re: UPC chicken vigil at Perdue plant in Salisbury
Date: 15 Apr 92 21:01:41 GMT
Followup-To: um.general
Organization: UMIACS, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742

dipster@wam.umd.edu (Sandip Dasgupta) writes:
>  Cherry, you is one sick pup, and ignorant like the rest. If
>we were raising chickens only for feeding your birds, we wouldnt
>have to store them in sick cages and waste about 100 million
>gallons of water daily, and waste many more times the grain
>to produce the chicken energy, etc. etc. ad nauseum.
>The whole point is not in the killing of chickens but also 
> the waste and sickness bred by the industry as a whole. If
>you must eat chickens, then keep them in your own backyard 
>and kill them quickly and painlessly instead of supporting
>the bullshit which occurs as a natural consequence of your 
>desire to have convenient neat little (styrofoam) packages
>waiting for yuou at Giant.

Let me get this strait: You want me to kill all of the meat that I
eat? I suppose that you also want me to grow my own food, construct my
own home, as well as create my own medicine. After all, it is well
known that there is corruption in all of these industries.

I like having convieniences. Because people specialize, we become
more adept at specific areas. I'll take the prepackaged chicken,
thank you.

> Also, it is apparent that you 
>give no regard to the feeling of chickens.. thats something
>that you need to arrive at yourself-I cant teach it to you, [...]

Oh, you are sooo very moral. It must be frustrating to have to deal
with the likes of us. Teach us, oh master!

>[...] but are
>you aware that Perdue's factory conditionsa are deploarable.
>A large number of his employees are black women who cant support
>themselves in other ways and thus are forced to endure the
>nervous system destruction that inflicts a huge percentage 
>of his workers?

And are you aware of the fact that if the alternative was not worse
(i.e. they remained unemployed) they workers would quit. No one holds
a gun to their heads and say "You must skin chickens, or else..."
Grow up. Some jobs just plain suck.

And it's insulting to think that because they are "black women" we
must equate them with victims.

>Did you know that he used organized crime to
>destabilize a workers protest? Did you know that he killed 
>someone while driving on the wrong side of the highway
>while intoxicated and payed huge sums of money to go
>free and have the story as suppressed as possible(Obviously,
>it didnt toatlly work)?
>  Perdue wouldnt have gotten so high if he couldnt step
>on little footstools like yourelf.

Oh, do tell! I suppose he shot Kennedy. He did! Frank Purdue was seen
on the grassy knoll!!!

But seriously, (Let me see, how can I say this) SOOOOO WHAT!!!!
If (That's IF) Purdue is a criminal like you say, then I agree
that something should be done about him. BUT WHAT DOES THAT HAVE
TO DO WITH KILLING CHICKENS!!! I will say it again. I like the fact
that I can go to the store after a long day and eat some dead chicken.
If I had to kill every damn thing that I ate I would never finish
up my dissertation.

Oh yes. I forgot. I'm supposed be concerned with the feelings of
chickens. (A dog is a pig is a rat is a boy...) Wrong. If a chicken
ever starts to recite poetry then come and see me. I'll consider
it's feelings. Until then, let's eat meat.




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