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Count Your Chickens (In the Florida Keys)

10,000 Birds

In 2008, over nine billion chickens were slaughtered for Americans to eat. Their population apparently received a big boost in the 1970s when c**k-fighting was declared illegal and many fighting c s were released. This post will get a bit into that for which I apologize, but it seems someone needs to do this. Americans love chicken.

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Deconstructing Spencer's Comment

Animal Person

You purposefully choose to ignore facts like that though when citing the "cruelty and injustice" involved in the rearing and slaughter of animals. You're hypocrites essentially, and the worst kind in my opinion. Loud preaching hypocrites utterly convinced of their infallability.

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A Connecticut Yankee Goes to Washington: Senator George P. McLean, Birdman of the Senate

10,000 Birds

Its goal was to limit the greedy collecting of birds killed for the plume trade, the bird meat trade (as in the wholesale slaughter of the Passenger Pigeon), and for sport (again, the Passenger Pigeon and declining numbers of waterfowl). It has become the cornerstone of U.S.