Some Observations...(all are welcomed)

narf poit chez BOOM · #1 June 22nd, 2006, 07:46 PM

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PvK said:

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narf poit chez BOOM said:
According to my dad, who was raised on a farm, eight chickens cannot be crammed into an 8x8x8 sized encloser.

Based on my own understanding of the dimensions of a chicken, I doubt you could fit a single chicken in there.

Narf, what are you referring to? The low end was 40 or 48 inches square per chicken, not per eight chickens. 48 would be about 7 x 7 per chicken (if it were square, vertical unspecified), and the wonderful concession is a gradual increase to 72 which is more like 8 x 9 inches (flappin' 4 joy (tm)). There are generally several chickens per cage though, so an 8-chicken cage would be 8 times as big, with 8 chickens. There are pictures on the net of course if still curious. Just do a Google image search for: chicken "battery cage" ... or not.

Ah, thanks. I misread.

That does look rather cruel. I don't actually know if that's prevalent, but it's definitly cruel.

Kamog · #2 June 23rd, 2006, 01:15 AM

Soon we won't have to kill animals to produce meat. According to this article, scientists are using stem cells to grow meat in a test tube!

Randallw · #3 June 23rd, 2006, 01:47 AM

yeah I think about that sort of stuff from time to time. I personally wouldn't have a problem with it as long as it tasted like proper meat. But on the other hand I wouldn't eat it for the sake of it if it was more expensive then normal meat. Come the day it is the same or cheaper I would make the change.