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In reply to the discussion: What… wha'? Chickens have uteruses, instead of oviducts?!? Since when, PETA? [View all]riqster
(13,986 posts)107. "Evangelist Assholes" is redundant
Never met an evangelist of any sort that didn't make my fist itch.
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What… wha'? Chickens have uteruses, instead of oviducts?!? Since when, PETA? [View all]
MrScorpio
Nov 2012
OP
Chickens that are used in egg production can suffer pain and distress. Brocolli can't.
Vattel
Nov 2012
#8
The pain and distress in veg industrial farming comes in advance when small animals
Bluenorthwest
Nov 2012
#13
The soil is a living thing -- Just putting a spade in the ground kills countless living things.
FarCenter
Nov 2012
#17
My post was about industrial agriculture. Perhaps you meant to respond to someone else?
yewberry
Nov 2012
#118
The fact that your biology class didn't teach you what plants do in response to damage
jeff47
Nov 2012
#46
You're right -- fruits and nuts. Do they contain all the essential amino acids?
pnwmom
Nov 2012
#112
I worry that this sort of new age silliness provides a rationalization for inflicting suffering
Vattel
Nov 2012
#129
Really. Have you ever harvested a vegetable of fruit by cutting it's connection to the plant.
bluestate10
Nov 2012
#113
What message? That PETA is an unscrupulous, dishonest, ignorant bunch of yahoos?
cleanhippie
Nov 2012
#84
seriously.. they're trying to gross people out, and it's a poor way to do it,
Voice for Peace
Nov 2012
#12
You could easily post a picture of a plant growing out of a pile of manure
4th law of robotics
Nov 2012
#37
well the reason I asked was they seemed to be indignant about the people mocking the ad and PETA
quinnox
Nov 2012
#33
I lost a bingo game to a chicken in Vegas once. Damn intellectual elite poultry.
piratefish08
Nov 2012
#67
I'm a vegetarian, and support peta (in spirit), but this approach is lame at best
whatchamacallit
Nov 2012
#45