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the shooting of the chickens in the beginning..


being a animal friend,i think that was detestable.

there is never right to do things like that just for the sake of a movie.

i can imagine peckina(who gives a thing about how to type his name) being stone drunked,filming that scene laughing.

ugh.

oh,and before someone says "woho they were going to be eaten anyway". yeah,but thats not the point and you know it.


nah,i will now continue to fast-forward this movie just to show my non-respect for it.

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As you can see after 3 years your opinions are worthless. Take a lesson and shut up. There's no halo on your head and your self professed love of animals is dwarfed by your self righteousness attitude. It is nauseating to say the least. I haven't met one of you animal advocates that will put their money where their mouth is .... unless SOME ONE ELSE is providing the cash.

In the frozen land of Nador they were forced to eat Robins minstrels. And there was much rejoicing.

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First, nobody's opinion is "worthless" in the way you appear to mean it, seems to me this person was venting about what he saw as shocking cruelty in the name of a film. And Peckinpah WAS a mess.

Now, I don't have a problem with people eating animals, but what needs reform is the way they're stored and handled, an fattened, in the name of squeezing every penny out of every animal's hide. Veal and four gras, or starters, should be outlawed. The chickens in this film don't appear terribly scared Or tortured prior to the shooting, so it doesn't necessarily raise my hackles though. The cockfighting IS another story altogether.

. I haven't met one of you animal advocates that will put their money where there mouth is .... unless SOME ONE ELSE is providing the cash.


Can you explain this statement? It's not clear what you mean, specifically.

Saw a commercial while I watched One Eyes Jacks last week about Family Farmers' Way of life being "under attack" by, I assume, PETA and other Animal Rights Groups. Wonder which FACTORY farm group financed that commercial. Anyway I found it laughable at the inference that these are the underdogs ad good guys in this debate/fight. Cut down on the cruelty in handling and they might appear slightly more sympathetic.

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Your method of farming will require twice as much land and cost to "make the chicken happy". Yes it might work. Just send them a check to cover the expanded cost and they'll be happy to oblige. Instead, you ask that EVERYONE just pay a little more. NOT gonna happen. Now if you would be so kind as to tell us who should go without food in the interim? I'm confident you have a list.
Our food production is the most productive in the world and was responsible for feeding most of it since WWII and quite a lot of it in the last 25yrs. I for one am not sorry but proud of this achievement.

In the frozen land of Nador they were forced to eat Robins minstrels. And there was much rejoicing.

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