animals
“We don’t give a shit about chickens,” say Tesco shareholders, “now give us all your money!”
It shouldn’t really come as a surprise that Tesco shareholders yesterday chose to reject Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall’s call for the company to adopt new and compassionate standards for rearing birds. They ignored the moral and ethical arguments in favour of what they presumably thought was the best way to keep the money rolling in. The fact that less than 10 per cent of the shareholders voted in favour of change simply goes to show that they’re a callous bunch of bastards who care about very little other than money. And let’s face it—Tesco does make them an awful lot of money, at least for the time being. But times change, and anyone with a conscience should now boycott the store chain and shop elsewhere.
tags: animal cruelty, broiler hens, chickens, corporate greed, diet, excuses, fat, food, obesity, shareholders, supermarkets, TescoGetting bees-y with it
I just had to post this photo of my nearest and undoubtedly dearest donning, for the very first time, the bee keeping suit I bought him for his birthday last week. It’s the combination of the gay astronaut look and the expression on our friend’s face (perhaps saying, “well ain’t that a typical pose”) that still has me cackling. That, and I’m not sure if her lovely daughter was simply asking her mum for a cuddle or was instead wondering if disaster was imminent.
tags: apiary, beekeeping, bees, birthday, honeyNanotechnology joins GM in fucking up the food chain, while the RSPCA rubber-stamps animal cruelty for supermarkets
The chicken meme is riding high across the planet. On the same day I discovered, courtesy of a friend pointing me to this video, that the RSPCA fails miserably in its duty of care towards the nation’s animals by providing Freedom Food certification for chickens that are far from being free-range and healthy, I also found this story about how, in the US, nanotechnology is to be employed to deal with the nasty diseases battery and broiler hens carry due to their unsanitary and overcrowded living conditions.
tags: animal cruelty, antibiotics, battery hens, broiler hens, chickens, free range, Freedom Food, GM food, lies, nanotechnology, public deception, RSPCA, supermarkets
