A Vacaville, California farm animal advocacy group is now safeguarding 700 out of 160,000 chickens to be evacuated from a newly-sold egg farm near Gilroy. They are looking for homes for the 700; the rest, all past-their-prime egg-laying hens, are expected to be killed. In the above-linked story, one animal rescue official says we should stop eating eggs.

A question arises. Are the chicken rescue people, uh, "pro-choice"? (Myself I am pro-choice, but not pro-abortion). If they support the right of a woman to terminate a pregnancy, but seek to prevent the death of farm hens, are they saying a chicken's life is worth more than a human's?

It would kinda seem so, huh?

Excuse me now: time for a big frittata.

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Posted by Matt Rosenberg at August 16, 2005 12:08 PM