Re: Culling by suffocation

"Jane Gillett" <j.gillett@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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3. Gas circulation. Won't the building's normal fans be good enough?

In a lock down they would be turned off I would guess



N. I haven't yet steeled myself to read far into Jill's report on culling
methods but I will do so. I stalled at the bit about burning chickens
alive
in plastic bags.

I wish this information, particularly Jill's, could be put before the
public.

Seriously do not think they want to know - all this information is readily
available

The people who support the need for these treatments by their
demand for cheap food but then turn around and ban hunting. Somebody who
says "I couldn't eat an animal I had raised" but is happy to buy anonymous
mass produced chickens and processed food without the slightest concern
about thow they were raised. I am more than happy to eat my own meat (and
saying that this is Fred and he tastes good doesn't upset me in the least)
- I know how they were raised and how they died. There is no point, even,
in trying to do anything about inhumane handling under UK law - we would
just hamstring our own producers even more and more birds would be
imported
from areas where there are no such constraints at all and who already
undercut our producers; and the public would still not know <or care>. But
I ramble on on a personal rant.....

But we have too many people now, not enough land to be able to feed them
from exclusively extensive units
Bear in mind, especially poultry have been kept intensively for around 170
years.
The welfare is better now in most places than the extensive units would be.
If standards slip in extensive units there is just as much suffering by the
animals.
The breeding has taken into account the management type -- You couldn't shut
up our birds in a battery unit - they would kill each other but commercial
hybrids have had docility bred in as well as productivity and economy


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regards
Jill Bowis

Pure bred utility chickens and ducks
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