Free Range – not!
January 4th 2012 21:00
Recently, I was checking out an animal farm and it made me wonder how confronting it must be to visit a poultry farm where thousands of chickens are forced to live in cramped conditions.
When I spotted what appeared to be thirty chicks crowded into one pen, it made me think of the overcrowding on chicken farms. I thought it was cruel to keep them so tightly packed and hoped this was only temporary. If it was bad enough just watching thirty chicks being kept in a confined space, I would hate to think how bad it would be to visit an actual chicken farm, although I have seen pictures of them in Peter Singer’s books.
While I was in my own packed area due to the large number of little humans who wanted to see the animals, I waited patiently until the little boy in front of me moved so I could get a shot of the ducklings. The boy’s guardian (she appeared to be too old to be his mother) asked she could take a photo of him holding a duckling. The woman who was looking after the animal farm said no; if she let him hold the duckling, she would have to allow everyone else who had the same request and she would be there all day. I felt like saying, der! Then there was the issue of who would be watching the other animals while she was allowing children to touch the animals.
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