Band Aid Chicken

The living conditions of chickens are dreadful and appalling. What came first the chicken or the egg? Chicken farming is found particularly in the Southeast margin of the United States (“Factory Farm Map”). It is explained that, “chickens and hogs on factory farms have no access to the outdoors, fresh air or natural light” (“Factory Farms Map”). This exemplifies one situation of how chickens are poorly treated in the factory farms. In addition, even before the chickens are born, they are treated horribly. More than 125,000 to one million hens can be living in the same factory together (Hobson). Along with crowded living spaces, these animals suffer being “docked,” which means they are declawed and stripped of all teeth (Hobson). This shows how bad the conditions

Following the recent incident in a Melbourne suburb during which hundreds of chickens were illegally released from cages on a truck, writer Jo Smith contended in his opinion piece ‘Chickens Range Free’ issued on January 2009 that our actions towards farm chickens are both inhumane and brutal. The piece draws attention to us as the human species, the need to raise awareness, the desire to stop such inhumane treatment and to enact action by supporting the activists who freed the chickens in an attempt to encourage readers to feel a sense of empathy as an act which disadvantages both themselves and others. The opinion piece was also accompanied by a photograph, was published on a website and on the Opinion

Some were disturbed by the point Moon seemed to be making: that brutally murdering a chicken is similar to a woman making a decision about her own body. Others pointed out the hypocrisy of preaching life while dismembering an animal.

Chickens used for egg production typically live in one of many battery cages crammed into a long windowless shed. Ten or more of these hens are packed together in a cage that is about the size of a drawer in a filing cabinet. This causes frustration and fighting between the hens. To keep this from happening, farmers often cut or burn part of their beaks off without medicine to dull the pain. Hens who become sick are usually not given proper veterinary care and are left to die slowly and painfully. Some of the eggs laid by the hens are hatched by another industry to supply more chickens for egg production. Since the hatched male chicks cannot lay eggs, they are often killed by grinding or suffocation. When the hens grow old and stop producing as many eggs, many farmers will deny them proper nutrition to try and “shock” their bodies into laying eggs one last time. Then they are slaughtered and their bodies are used for food scraps.

This week’s reading topic is about the history of chickens. In the Smithsonian article “ How the Chicken Conquered the World” by Andrew Lawler and Jerry Adler, it discusses about how chickens have saved the Western civilization. According to the legend, the Athenian general Themistocles came across a cocks fight during his way to invade the Persians forces. In addition, history records that the Greeks repel the invaders and preserved the civilisation “honors the creatures by breading, frying and dipping them into one’s choice of sauce.” These creatures are known as the descendants of roosters.

Williams’ also uses animal imagery to show the subordination of women in a big patriarchal society. During Stanley’s games he doesn’t want any interruption from the women in the household and even when they’re not disturbing anyone he tells them “you hens cut out that conversation in there” (Williams 54). Hens are the female chickens and they are mostly just used to lay the eggs. Stanley calling Blanche and Stella hens shows that he is specifically calling them out because they’re women. He could of chosen to call them another animal but stuck to hens because since he is considered a “rooster”, the hen will always be below. Later on in the play, Blanche describes the poker night as “this party of apes! Somebody growls- some creature snatches

Nurse Ratched, known as Big Nurse is the head nurse in the asylum and her role is to keep order and control in the ward. She is a master of manipulation. In the passage on page 55, the metaphor referring to the therapy meeting as “bunch of chickens at a peckin’party” uses an animal motif to further emphasize the inhuman way Big Nurse retains control. The alliteration “peckin’ party” and blood and bones” (Kesey, 55) underscores the seriousness of the meeting. Harding is the chicken in this peckin’ party and Big Nurse is the one who takes the first peck. Adding amplification to McMurphy’s analogy, detailing blood spotted chickens that get pecked to death and as their blood splats onto other chickens they become the next victims, creates a graphic

It’s problematic that we don’t question the food we eat whether it be from McDonalds or a fancy upscale restaurant. We need to be more aware of what is going on around us especially when the food we eat is causing an array of health issues for us. The unsanitary conditions found within the factory farm industry contributes to the pathogens found in the meat we eat. As the saying goes you get what you pay for. Factory farming is based upon producing large quantities of meat at a very low cost. This driving force behind the system is not worth getting food poising or something detrimental. In the chapter “Influence / Speechlessness” the habitats of the chickens are displayed “jamming deformed, drugged,

In the letter to Chicken Co. Joe Williams is very upset with the way Chickens are being treated. We will explore the strengths, weaknesses, and revisions of this letter.

“At some point, you just pull off the band-aid and it hurts. But then its over and it hurts, but then its over and you’re relieved”. – John Green. The adhesive bandage, or now known under its commercial name the band-aid is a invention discovered by Earle Dickinson in the 1920s made form gauze and plastic to heal minor wounds.

I am in mourning and shock. For twenty days, the hen house in my backyard lay under siege in what became known as The Battle of Linton Hollow. Night after night, the chickens cowered in fear as hungry predators circled their coop searching for ways to get at them. By day, my wife and I mended holes in the fencing and set traps, but in the end, there was nothing we could do to save them. It’s hard to admit, but we were simply outwitted by a craftier, more relentless, superior intelligence. The varmints that struck down our chickens one by one could have taught Colonel Sanders a thing or two about “finger licking good.” Once they honed in on the hen house location, and tasted the first chicken, there was no keeping them out of the buffet line. The final casualty count read seven chicken lunches, seven raccoons, and three opossums. Although I would have

Chickens have to endure suffering that no living thing should have to go through. The egg laying chickens have to be forced into tiny cages without enough room to stretch their wings. Up to 8 hens are crammed in to a cage that is the size of a folded newspaper, about

After being fed daily with antibiotics, the chicken are big enough to go off to the slaughter house. The only federal law in the United States, which first enacted in 1958 is the Humane Methods of Livestock Slaughter Act (HMLSA). That law was to protects farm animals and requires that the animals be rendered insensible to pain before they are slaughtered to ensure a quick, painless death” (Miller, 2010). Even though the chicken are shackled upside down and pass through an electrified water bath that is intended to immobilized them before their throat are slit, the process is so fast and ineffective that the chicken are still conscious when they are having their throat slit, their misery only end when they hit the

And so flew the feathered destiny of my dear Aculeo and I as the hen tumbled majestically through the air before landing in the face of one of the guards with a pitiful squawk. The group of guards turned in unison after a dumbfounded pause. They spotted the gapping mouthed, little man, feathers falling gently around his stubby feet. I sent my poor man a flash of his life thus far, and what it could have been if he had not kicked that fate ridden, karma infested chicken. He made small, drawn out, throaty noise as the guard who was lucky enough to catch the chicken with his face started walking towards us. For once, Aculeo and I agreed on a decision, thus we turned and ran with our arms flailing. After scuffling an impressive distance for an old man, we took half a second in our flight to turn and see that the guards were barreling towards us at full speed. I considered stopping, but Aculeo just kept on running and running until he had wriggled himself into a conveniently placed crowd. It’s nice how crowds always appear when you need to give the

In the last stanza, the caged bird’s song symbolises the emotions and cries of freedom. The combination of the two represents that there is a need for every child to reach their full potential. Something that cannot be achieved with helicopter parenting and the barriers placed upon them.