This is cruel and evil! These people really need to find something else to do to celebrate Easter!
Dyeing Baby Chicks: OK or Oh No?
SodaHead Living
2012/04/03 16:10:14
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Everybody loves baby chicks on Easter, but do they really need to be dyed in pastel colors to make them even cuter than they already are? Poultry farmers say it's harmless when nontoxic dye is used, but animal rights advocates are against the practice, which is banned in about half the states and some municipalities, The New York Times reports.
In fact, in Florida last month, the Legislature passed a bill to overturn a 45-year-old ban on dyeing animals. "Humane societies are overflowing with these animals after Easter every year," Don Anthony of the Animal Rights Foundation of Florida told the Times. "This law has protected thousands of animals from neglect and abuse, and it shouldn’t be lifted on the whim of one dog groomer who wants to dye poodles purple."
As far as baby chicks go, the dye is either injected in the incubating egg or sprayed on the hatchling. The color lasts only a few weeks: it comes off as chicks shed their fluff and the feathers grow in a normal color, the Times reports. Animal rights advocates say the dyeing experience is stressful for the birds, and that baby chicks shouldn't be sold when they're under four weeks old. Do you think it's OK to dye baby chicks?
there are millions upon billions of cruel things that humans are doing to animals, things that animal rights activists havent even thought of yet.
how about we first stop destroying the habitats of wild animals, animal testing, the cruel and inhumane ways in which we raise and kill animals for meat etc BEFORE we worry about some harmless dying of baby chickens for easter.
It's probably not painful at all, and it's much less morally objectionable than straight out killing and eating animals, something that I'm sure most of the people who answered "Oh No!" do on a daily basis. Consistency, guys, consistency.
I don't really accept the argument that this use of animals is frivolous, while eating them is necessary or somehow more justified. We're using animals against their "will" either way (if animals can be said to have desires). Eating meat is just part of our culture, dyeing baby chicks isn't.
If you answered "Oh No!" and are not vegetarian (or vegan, more like), I'm interested to hear why this is worse than anything else we do to animals.
Please reply!
So Cute! :D
They tried to do this with butterflies for weddings, and as someone who has raised many different species of butterflies for over 16 years, it's like people don't appreciate living things for what they are. Help children learn to love things as they were meant to be, not altered, *including* themselves!!!