tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9612609.post2416447334858223025..comments2023-09-29T06:58:20.125-07:00Comments on Badtux the Snarky Penguin: The penguin's ballotBadTuxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01345749557330760251noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9612609.post-54931512542820391542008-10-29T19:05:00.000-07:002008-10-29T19:05:00.000-07:00It's food. We kill and eat it. "Humane" treatment ...It's <I>food</I>. We kill and eat it. "Humane" treatment of an animal we kill and eat is an oxymoron. The critter owes its very existence to the fact that we are growing it in order to kill and eat it. I think some folks have just watched a few too many Loony Tunes cartoons and think, like, chickens have feelings or something. They're <I>birds</I>. With <I>bird brains</I>. Damned things are so f*cking stupid that they'll run right into a fox's mouth when a fox comes to raid the chicken coop. <BR/><BR/>Having lived on a farm, I just gotta shake my head at all these city slickers whining about humane treatment of <I>food</I>. Look, you go out there and grab a chicken and wring its stupid little chicken neck until it's dead, then you chop its head off and gut it and toss it in your stewpot. That's what you do with chickens. "Humane"? Puh-LEEZE. It's <I>food</I>.<BR/><BR/>And while I can certainly afford to pay a bit more for chicken and eggs, it's going to hit the lower classes <I>hard</I>, because chicken and eggs are two of their main sources of protein. So they're going to have to substitute lower-protein foods, which are going to wreck their diets even more than they're already wrecked. Since when did f*cking <I>birds</I> become more important than human beings?!<BR/><BR/>- Badtux the Humane(to humans) PenguinBadTuxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01345749557330760251noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9612609.post-20302734767291529812008-10-29T18:57:00.000-07:002008-10-29T18:57:00.000-07:00I've already voted by absentee ballot, and my choi...I've already voted by absentee ballot, and my choices mostly coincide with yours, but we're far apart on Prop 2.<BR/><BR/>The notion that food animals somehow don't deserve humane treatment is downright archaic. It isn't anthropomorphic to think that animals should be allowed to move their bodies and establish whatever their normal social relationships are. People complain that "cage free" hens aren't really "free range" because they tend to live their lives in large sheds. But they do get to move around, squabble, and establish social relationships within their flock. It wouldn't be my kind of life, but then, I'm not a hen. Likewise, keeping a calf locked into a little stall all its life, so that it can't move freely, just so that its meat will be tender, is equally inhumane.<BR/><BR/>Everybody dies; we're all food at some point. Failing to raise and slaughter our food humanely lessens our own humanity. Don't drag PETA into this; they'd much prefer we not eat animal products at all. This is about humane treatment of food animals, period.<BR/><BR/>And it's not going to kill you to pay an extra buck for a chicken or a dozen eggs, which is what it will come down to when the farmers sort themselves out.<BR/><BR/>Now, if we could just bring the working conditions for humans in the big chicken slaughterhouses up to something humane...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9612609.post-71979605015212210042008-10-29T16:32:00.000-07:002008-10-29T16:32:00.000-07:00Bad karma, BadTux. Listen to your higher voice, no...Bad karma, BadTux. Listen to your higher voice, not your inner carnivore. People once would have made the same argument about human slaves (minus the eating part.) Future generations will look back at us mass meat-eaters with the same horror as we do at the millenia of slave-owners.Bukko Boomerangerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02424677168216647964noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9612609.post-17362097561013283732008-10-29T11:37:00.000-07:002008-10-29T11:37:00.000-07:00They're food. Let's not anthropomorphize animals w...They're <I>food</I>. Let's not anthropomorphize animals with brains the size of, err, chickens, dude. Their whole purpose is to be killed for my protein needs. As long as the meat arrives at my table safe to eat, I don't give a sh*t what conditions they're kept in while they're being raised to the point where they're ready to be sent to the great chicken coop in the sky...<BR/><BR/>- Badtux the Carnivorous PenguinBadTuxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01345749557330760251noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9612609.post-73709012843901619392008-10-29T11:04:00.000-07:002008-10-29T11:04:00.000-07:00Dude...you are a multi-colored penguin...how can y...Dude...you are a multi-colored penguin...how can you not support #2..pay the extra few pennies for your eggs and sleep well at night knowing that our food supply can at least sit down or stretch out before they get gutted. I cramp up just thinking about it..Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9612609.post-24491630427475329842008-10-28T09:53:00.000-07:002008-10-28T09:53:00.000-07:00Your recommendations mirror a lot of mine. I thin...Your recommendations mirror a lot of mine. I think I'll sit down with my absentee ballot and make mine tonight. Fun that we live in the same county, though I am insanely jealous of your utility bill. Fucking San Jose. I should run for city council, just to push for our own MUD.James F. Elliotthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16747033407956667363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9612609.post-21232061973458288562008-10-28T06:27:00.000-07:002008-10-28T06:27:00.000-07:00You lucky bastard! We got an absentee ballot with ...You lucky bastard! We got an absentee ballot with president and congressperson on it. That's all. Exiles don't get a say in Cali issues.<BR/><BR/>To my shame, I voted for the Dems in both, instead of Green, as my heart told me. Mrs. Bukko made me.<BR/><BR/>She said it's important for the O-man to get as much of a vote as he can, even in safely blue states like CA, to counterbalance the cheating. And Jackie Spier, the replacement for ol' concentration camp Lantos, bled at Jonestown, so she deserves our ballots, Mrs. Bukko sez. I feel guilty already.Bukko Boomerangerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02424677168216647964noreply@blogger.com