happy very be-lated birthday, james
".. a glass of milk isnt just a nice drink with chococlate chip cookies. It's cows forced to stay pregnant and pumped with hormones. It's the inevitable calves that live a few miserable months, squeezed in veal boxes. A pork chop means a pig, stabbed and bleeding, with a snare around one foot, being hung up to die screaming as it's sectioned into chops and roasts and lard.
Even a hard-boiled egg is a hen with her feet crippled from living in a battery cage only four inches wide, so narrow she cant raise her wings, so maddening her beak is cut off so she wont attack the hens trapped on each side of her. With her feather rubbed off by the cage and her beak cut, she lays egg after egg until her bones are so depleted of calcium that they shatter at the slaughterhouse. This is the chicken in chicken noodle soup, the laying hens, the hens so bruised and scarred that they have to be shredded and cooked because nobody would ever buy them in a butcher's case. This is the chicken in corn dogs. Chicken nuggets."
- from chuck palahniuk's "lullaby"
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"eating this is my right as a human being"
love,
s.
Even a hard-boiled egg is a hen with her feet crippled from living in a battery cage only four inches wide, so narrow she cant raise her wings, so maddening her beak is cut off so she wont attack the hens trapped on each side of her. With her feather rubbed off by the cage and her beak cut, she lays egg after egg until her bones are so depleted of calcium that they shatter at the slaughterhouse. This is the chicken in chicken noodle soup, the laying hens, the hens so bruised and scarred that they have to be shredded and cooked because nobody would ever buy them in a butcher's case. This is the chicken in corn dogs. Chicken nuggets."
- from chuck palahniuk's "lullaby"
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"eating this is my right as a human being"
love,
s.