{"id":962,"date":"2016-04-18T09:50:34","date_gmt":"2016-04-18T13:50:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/spiritualitychannelseries\/?p=962"},"modified":"2016-04-18T09:50:34","modified_gmt":"2016-04-18T13:50:34","slug":"chicken-dupe-for-the-soul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/pitstopforthespirituallybamboozled\/2016\/04\/chicken-dupe-for-the-soul.html","title":{"rendered":"Chicken ‘Dupe’ for the Soul?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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Last Thanksgiving I had a go at the Turkey industry<\/a> with my rant on the inhumane cost of raising the lean, super-chested birds we like on our platters. Next up: their feathered friends, our beloved chickens.<\/p>\n

A century ago, your typical chicken was a scraggy crater. It took about four months to grow to a weight of 3 pounds. Consequently, it wasn\u2019t a popular dish with most Americans.<\/p>\n

Today, the typical broiler (meat chicken) converts feed into meat at a dazzling rate. Compared to its scrawny predecessors, it grows to twice the size in half the time. Now many animal welfare advocates are lobbying the poultry industry to turn back the clock. Modern meat chickens are growing so fast, they say, that they are suffering.<\/p>\n

How? As reported <\/a>on the Compassion in World Farming<\/i> site:<\/p>\n

Modern broiler breeds have been selected for exceptionally fast growth. As a result of growing so big so \"Lame-broiler-chicken\"<\/a>quickly, broilers spend much of their time lying down and many suffer from lameness. Rapid growth also puts additional strain on the birds\u2019 hearts and lungs.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

William Muir<\/a>, a poultry geneticist at Purdue University, says this transformation was mainly a triumph of chicken breeding. \u201cThis is what genetics does. We can actually make more from less,\u201d he says<\/a> \u2014 more chicken meat from less feed, in less time.<\/i><\/p>\n

Right . . . How about this trajectory: less feed\u00a0\u27a5 more chicken meat\u00a0\u27a5happier consumers\u00a0\u27a5richer poultry industry\u00a0\u27a5unhealthier chickens\u00a0\u27a5dead chicken\u00a0\u27a5less soul sensitivity to the inhumanity (and insanity) of it all because, well we like our chickens FAST.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So the next time you\u2019re handed a plate of chicken wings at KFC, ask your server if she\/he knows whether the broiled bird on your plate was on the fast or slow track to the slaughter house. Or does it really matter to the average consumer?<\/p>\n

Well it does to me. Why? Because I\u2019m ashamed. Ashamed of the species I belong to and wonder how the heck we ended up here.<\/p>\n

And where we\u2019ve ended up, at least in the western world, is in an industrial, TV commercial driven culture in which we expect to walk into a store and purchase any food we desire, all packaged and available, regardless of whether it\u2019s in or out of season, or even imported from a far corner of the world.<\/p>\n

The wholesale industrial slaughter of conscious living beings is more than I can bear. So these days I lean to a more vegetarian, organic foods diet; and I try to be as cognizant as I can of the origins and production of the food I consume.<\/p>\n

The value that we\u2019ve severely compromised (or lost) in the consumer age is our primal and fundamental connection to the earth and the soil that generously grows everything we could ever need.<\/p>\n

Whether it\u2019s monkeying with the climate, or engineering the food on our plates, it\u2019s only a matter of time before our misguided arrogance and experimentation for profit, come back to bite us on our fat derri\u00e8res.<\/p>\n

So what do you<\/em> think? Comments welcome!<\/p>\n

Bon appetit!<\/em><\/p>\n

Cover Photo: Pixabay<\/a><\/p>\n

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