Agreed, I reckon the last few hours of their lives are not too pleasant. However I worked in broiler houses in Israel and their lives are misery from Day 1 until the chopping block. The agony that they went through - growing too fast because of the hormones, broken legs, being eaten alive by other chickens, SDS - having heart attacks. Saw it all.Yorkie150 wrote:I feel sorry for the ducks...not a very humane ,method of transport.
Couldn't eat chicken for a year after that.
These guys, however, could be called 'country fowl' - they're raised in fairly pleasant conditions, in the rural areas on the outskirts of the city. They aren't force-fed hormone-heavy food, and live a rather sedate life. Until of course they're sent into the city to be consumed by the citizenry. Even then, their demise is quick - the seller will expertly slit their throat and bleed them out, and the buyer can choose to take the blood with the fowl, or just the de-feathered fowl (usually with head and feet and innards as part of the package deal).
Does anyone fancy a Parson's Nose?