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If you slaughter the chicken appropriately the animal is stunned than killed, you still take a life but suffering is limited.

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I've been a vegetarian since age 12 but I have zero problem with small farms raising animals for meat and slaughtering them humanely. Factory farms are awful for the animals, the humans who work in them, and the people who consume the low-quality meat.

I wish concern for a humane death for animals was more prevalent.

Does "stunned" mean immobilized or that the animal isn't feeling fear and pain?

It means unconscious. For chickens that can be done as easily as hanging the chicken between your legs by it's feet and swinging it back and forth. Works with small mammals like rabbits and guinea pigs too.

> can be done as easily as hanging the chicken between your legs by it's feet and swinging it back and forth

Uhh.... are you sure??

Apologies for taking so long to come back to you. You're correct, you absolutely should not hold a chicken upside down.

I don't know what I was thinking. The method I mentioned exclusively works on small mammals, think rabbits, hares, guinea pigs.

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