I think this must be one of the most random things I’ve puzzled on

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Picked up a chicken yesterday (dead not alive), and suddenly thought how undignified it looked without it having the string tying its legs together

I mean...it’s a dead chicken. Not really dignified anyway but having its legs like that is just the cherry on the top for the poor chook

You bloody weirdo

Well...I’m never boring

Thank you for brightening up my Sunday morning!

I often ponder random things like that and then think 'I seriously worry about you sometimes Rocking'.

I am veering toward being a vegetarian TBH. The more I think about it, it is undignified, that's something's legless, headless plucked body on that plastic tray. It's weird when you think about it all. Someone pointed out that when you buy say 12 chicken wings that's 6 chickens you've got there.

I can't even touch raw meat.

I think I am a lost cause TBH.

I once spent a while pondering on the correct plural form for Mickey Mouse. Mickey Mouses didn't seem right, but neither did Mickey Mice

I hate the English language at times.

There’s only ONE Mickey Mouse

The rest are all knock offs

@Sparklingbrook

I am veering toward being a vegetarian TBH. The more I think about it, it is undignified, that's something's legless, headless plucked body on that plastic tray. It's weird when you think about it all. Someone pointed out that when you buy say 12 chicken wings that's 6 chickens you've got there.

I can't even touch raw meat.

I think I am a lost cause TBH.

You see @Sparklingbrook it's the thinking that's the problem!

@BIWI if I could stop thinking I'd be just fine.

I don't understand why the legs have to be tied together, they aren't exactly giraffe proportions. It's not as if you'd have to wrestle with it to get them in the oven.

@Cocolapew

I don't understand why the legs have to be tied together, they aren't exactly giraffe proportions. It's not as if you'd have to wrestle with it to get them in the oven.

Easier to shrink wrap without the legs sticking out? Just neater I guess and more visually appealing.

Why are pigs called pork and cows called beef but lamb is lamb?

Just neater I guess and more visually appealing
A little sock would be better.

prawns are the worst - it’s a whole village on your plate! that shocked me when i started thinking about it

@Confusedaboutlots

prawns are the worst - it’s a whole village on your plate! that shocked me when i started thinking about it

Yes, you have the whole prawn family possibly. I have never eaten seafood I don't trust it. I wonder if the chickens in the plastic were friends running about together when they were alive, and now sitting dead on the supermarket shelf together...

I've never eaten prawns either. The look like little pink embryos.

@Tlollj

Why are pigs called pork and cows called beef but lamb is lamb?

Well, sheep is lamb, though...? Or mutton?

I’ve been a vegetarian since my late teens, after a childhood growing up killing our own chickens (and eating named calves), but I suspect a lot of people’s meat eating depends on the meat in question being shrink-wrapped and packaged in a way that makes it very removed from anything that suggests its animal origin — like chicken breasts.

This is really interesting for me.

I often wonder if people think about the animals they eat and the lives they've had leading up to slaughter and ending up on their plate.

I've never asked anyone as that may be seen as me being judgemental but I'm genuinely curious.

So thank you for answering that question for me

Why am I now thinking of that scene in Eraserhead...

@Cocolapew

I've never eaten prawns either. The look like little pink embryos.

Hang a couple of bodies on the side. Bleurgh.

🤢

That’s why I went veggie! Well trying to be vegan... it was a probably fairly happy living breathing being with its own life, probably had a terrifying last day of its life being treated like cargo and everything around it terrified too. Sorry to be a buzzkill but you see the trucks on the motorway, maybe not chickens (not sure) but you see animals being transported miles and then what’s the slaughterhouse like? Surely really loud and smelling of death, surely they know? And amongst thousands of other animals, separated from their friends. Anyway... happy Sunday!

I often wonder if people think about the animals they eat and the lives they've had leading up to slaughter and ending up on their plate.

I think about it a lot.

Imagine if you are a whole family of prawns except for Bob, who'd popped out for a minute. And now he's just there with no prawn family wondering where they all went.

@Backstreetsbackalrightdadada

That’s why I went veggie! Well trying to be vegan... it was a probably fairly happy living breathing being with its own life, probably had a terrifying last day of its life being treated like cargo and everything around it terrified too. Sorry to be a buzzkill but you see the trucks on the motorway, maybe not chickens (not sure) but you see animals being transported miles and then what’s the slaughterhouse like? Surely really loud and smelling of death, surely they know? And amongst thousands of other animals, separated from their friends. Anyway... happy Sunday!

I can't look when I go past the lorries on the motorway and I can see all the livestock squished together on their final journey. I keep my eyes straight ahead.

@SleepingStandingUp

Imagine if you are a whole family of prawns except for Bob, who'd popped out for a minute. And now he's just there with no prawn family wondering where they all went.

Yes your whole family have been killed and are now buried in Marie Rose Sauce somewhere...