A 2020 ABC News article about a semi-trailer carrying chickens in Adelaide (of exactly the sort I recently wrote about in Estimated Witness) contains the following mind-bogglingly insane words:
The RSPCA attended the crash scene.
Spokeswoman Carolyn Jones said the chickens involved in the crash were taken to an Ingham’s processing facility at Burton in Adelaide’s north where their welfare would be assessed.
Up to 1,000 chickens died.
“Clearly a very distressing scene with so many crates that had toppled over and many birds that were loose,” Ms Jones said.
“We’ll be monitoring the welfare of the surviving and the injured birds.”
Umm. Their welfare would be assessed… At an Ingham processing facility…
It makes me feel so much better to know that the RSPCA was on the scene, and that Ingham and RSPCA were keeping an eye out for an unknown number of chickens’ welfare…
RSPCA Approved chicken. It’s in the name, along with their oxymoronically titled podcast: Human Food.
Up to 1000 chickens died. On the scene or in the “processing facility”? Ultimately I’d say 100% died except those who managed to run the hell away from the truck and didn’t get run over by a car.
Seriously!!
They were on their way to be slaughtered!
The only thing a chicken slaughterhouse “cares about” is whether or not it’s worth “processing” (euphemism alert!) a chicken or disposing of its dead or dying body! It’s all about the cost!
And who knows what the RSPCA cares about. Cute cats and dogs and bugger all else apparently. Kick a dog and we’ll prosecute you. But slaughter as many pigs, cows, sheep and chickens as you like. That’s fine. They’ll even approve the death of pigs and chickens so long as they “lived well” and were slaughtered “humanely”. Oh, and don’t export live sheep! Just kill them in Australia!
This is the insanity of the dominant worldview.
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