This topic bothers me a lot. It's not like I'm a fanatic animal lover, it's just that I honestly believe animals are not treated with respect anymore! Not only domestic animals, that's for another time...

You always hear about those stories of the first humans (as in American Indians), only killing when they needed and using everything of the animal. They also thanked Mother Nature for providing them. And now?

Now they have chickens in a Egg Producing plants, boxed together so tightly you wonder how they got in there in the first place. Sure, you've got to make your money and it's a Multi-Million dollar business but the situations in which the chickens are thrown into, well, that's just awful!

I'm proud to say that I have my own chickens in my own barn. I don't call them organic chickens but at least I know what they're eating (sure, a couple worms here and there, maybe some pebbles) but that makes me feel better. (Knowing that they are well cared for and not force fed their own kind)

I respect the fact that not everyone can have chickens in their backyard, it just that, what has our world come to in the sense of... chickens???

BTW! It's not only chickens that are being treated this way!!...

But, the real question is... What could we do to help this fast-growing problem???

That stuff they do in factory farms is disgusting! there is a great book about it, it's called 'Old McDonalds Factory Farm' and it has all kinds of info about how they burn off the chickens beak (whicdh is supposed to be their most sensitive body part), and how thy're boiled alive, it's just gross, infact I don't feel like having that chicken sandwich for lunch anymore. Actually I take that back, I'm hungrey!

lol, agreed. I'm not positive about the whole chicken torture but from what I've heard of those places, well, anything is possible. But, it's not only chickens that are experiencing this problem. I mean come on, all animals are starting to be treated this way! But, at the moment Wendy, I believe your cause (with sex workers) is a lot more important! (For the moment anyways... Pretty soon stuff will start getting out of control in every small but bad situation !):-(