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Chicken kill raising questions in Carrboro

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The Urban Farm tour this Saturday has raised questions in Carrboro. As correspondent Rebekah Cowell reported in Wednesday's Chapel Hill News, organizers plan to slaughter three or four chickens at one of the 15 sites on the tour and then serve the chicken in a community "stone soup" at the end of the event.

Alderwoman Joal Hall Broun wants to know if the county has any rules for how the chickens may be killed and whether any special rules apply to serving the chickens to non-relatives. Town Attorney Mike Brough has recommended the town contact the Orange County Health Department and find out. "If they have a concern, they can deal with it," he wrote in an e-mail.

Hall Broun said she thinks the town also has a role to play.

"If they are having a publicly announced chicken kill and they are going to advertise to using those chickens in a public event; then I want to insure that whatever public health regulations, there may be, if they exist, be complied with," Hall Broun wrote in an e-mail to the town. "I buy my chickens at Weaver Street and Whole Foods, so I know where my chickens are coming from. Additionally, while I ate my grandmother's dead chickens, I knew her to be a person who believed cleaniness was next to Godliness."  

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Just wondering

Did any of the other Aldermen chime in on this? It seems odd that only Ms. Broun had anything to say.

Carrboro Aldermen

Joal Hall Broun shouldn't be wasting her time with ridiculous stuff like this. This is just silly. I'd rather hear Joal Hall Broun address the continuing loss of businesses in downtown Carrboro.

re: Ewwww

So, arthurb3, you're a big fan of McDonald's chicken McNuggets? Clearly your tastes have not been inhibited by any form of conscience.

Or maybe you're 13 years old??

Urban Farm Tour

What has Chapel Hill and Orange County come to? All the "Old South" things that used to be so attractive are now taboo. It's an urban farm tour for gosh sakes, what do you expect? I wish it was cold weather so they could have a "hog killing". Get real.

"I could never eat an animal

"I could never eat an animal that I have seen slaughtered. Its just gross. I like my meat to not look anything like its natural form."

You may want to consider vegetarianism then, if you're not comfortable with where your meat comes from. I wouldn't eat something I wouldn't be willing to slaughter myself.

Family-friendly Farm Tour

I don't feel like a slaughter on the farm tour is appropriate, especially after this amount of negative publicity. I
hope organizers will reconsider the idea, and keep everything family-friendly for children, vegetarians and vegans. 
However, I do think that the organizers had the best intentions when planning this event.

I am sure that this was never intended to be crude or controversial, and I imagine that if it is carried out, it will be with discretion and respect for the animal. This is not intended to be a morbid spectacle, but rather an educational opportunity for those folks who are interested in learning how to process a chicken from start to finish.

Processing a chicken that has had a happy healthy free-range life is not cruel. Most people who raise chickens for their meat do it out of compassion for the animals they consume, and they honor the sacrifice the animal made.

Factory farms are the epitome of animal cruelty. The torture those animals experience should be criminal. Even hatcheries often dispatch male chicks into killing machines that resemble wood chippers, and all because there is no value in their life. Roosters are often abandoned (leaving them vulnerable to brutal predation) or given away for free, where they are at risk of a worse possible fate in a cock fighting ring. A respectful and humane slaughter is not the worst fate for them. What makes it okay for the supermarket chicken, but not the burdensome backyard rooster?

 

 

Laws from NC Dept. of Agriculture

Excerpted law below:

Farmers may slaughter animals of their own raising for use by themselves, their families, and nonpaying guests. Such meats may not be sold into commerce.

Individuals may slaughter up to 1,000 chickens and/or turkeys of their own raising for retail or wholesale sale without benefit of inspection. Individuals who slaughter greater than 1,000 but less than 20,000 chickens and/or turkeys of their own raising for retail or wholesale sale are required to do so in a facility that is inspected for sanitation by our agency. Individuals who raise and slaughter over 20,000 chickens and/or turkeys of their own raising are required to operate in a state inspected, TA inspected, or federal (USDA, FSIS) inspected facility where each bird is inspected for disease.

http://www.agr.state.nc.us/meatpoultry/info.htm

Ewwww

I could never eat an animal that I have seen slaughtered. Its just gross. I like my meat to not look anything like its natural form.

Then, please monitor all the food in Carrboro

The most dangerous food in Carrboro is in the supermarkets and little stores.

Those chickens will be fresh and not coming from a factory farm and mega-processing plant, where risk of contamination is much higher.  

Yeah

Just look at all the people who die every year from eating "bad food" from the evil profit driven stores like Food Lion.   LOL.

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