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Fiction? Maybe Not

Given the billions of chicken raised under extreme confinement in order to meet the demand for cheap poultry products, an architecture student, André Ford, proposes a new system for the mass production of chicken that would involve the removal of the birds' cerebral cortex as well as their legs so that they don't experience the horrors of being packed very tightly in vertical farms. He argues that although this seems grotesque to most people, it could prove the solution to the rising demand for poultry, and to improve the welfare of the chickens by desensitizing them to the unpleasant reality of their existence.

To read the article please visit Food project proposes Matrix-style vertical chicken farms:
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2012-02/15/andre-ford-chicken-farming 
 
Astonishingly, this new system could actually be considered an improvement over our current abusive system of factory farming. We are indeed called to alleviate suffering to the best of our abilities, but I believe that we are also called to do so with an underlying respect for all beings, their bodies, minds and souls. Mutilating animals, hyper-confining them, and treating them like mere commodities shows total disregard for these beings and a hardness of heart on our part. If we truly want to show love to all beings, the first step would be to allow them to be who our Creator intended for them to be: subjects of their own life, with the freedom to express their instincts, feelings and behaviors.

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