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OmahaBlueDog

(10,000 posts)
Tue Feb 28, 2012, 07:15 PM Feb 2012

KETV Omaha: Chicken Slaughter Art Ruffles Feathers

Through the project, called "The Story of Chickens: A Revolution," Hansen originally planned to display coops of chickens at locations across Lawrence, where they would be cared for by volunteers. The birds would later be publicly slaughtered by a local farmer and served as a meal.

"By building a relationship with the birds, the project will transform the contemporary view of chickens as merely 'livestock' to the beautiful and unique creatures they are, while promoting alternative and healthy processes of caring for them," Hansen, an artist in residence at the University of Kansas, wrote on her project's website.


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KETV Omaha: Chicken Slaughter Art Ruffles Feathers (Original Post) OmahaBlueDog Feb 2012 OP
Du rec. Nt xchrom Feb 2012 #1
Sounds like a good project. If you eat meat, you should be involved with it more than uppityperson Feb 2012 #2
I won't click because I love my birds... cwydro Feb 2012 #3

uppityperson

(115,679 posts)
2. Sounds like a good project. If you eat meat, you should be involved with it more than
Tue Feb 28, 2012, 07:39 PM
Feb 2012

picking up plastic wrapped food at the store.

 

cwydro

(51,308 posts)
3. I won't click because I love my birds...
Tue Feb 28, 2012, 08:15 PM
Feb 2012

chickens are amazingly smart and funny...my free range ladies live a happy, stress free life...I love the eggs, but I don't eat chicken any longer...Seeing the chicken trucks going down the highway breaks my heart (big poultry processing area)...

Disgusting how they're treated.

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