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Chicken slaughter art project is cruel
By: Mac Date: February 28, 2012, 12:48 pm
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[glow=red,2,300]Chicken slaughter art project is cruel[/glow]
This is more about laws and perception than actual art. I think
the artist was in part trying to make a point about when, where
and what, society puts on blinders. Slaughtering chickens was
not thought about too much, not to long ago. So what makes it
different today?
[quote]A Kansas artist says she’ll change her plan to publicly
slaughter chickens as part of an art installation after city
officials told her the plan would violate local ordinances and
could result in a $1,000 fine.
Lawrence city officials said that Amber Hansen’s project, “The
Story of Chickens: A Revolution,” would amount to animal
cruelty, the Associated Press reported Tuesday.
Hansen had planned to display chicken coops across the eastern
Kansas city with volunteers helping to care for the birds. The
exhibit was to end with the birds being killed and served as a
meal, the AP reported. Hansen wanted to draw attention to the
process of slaughtering animals.
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“If people choose to eat meat, it is an important process to
witness and be mindful of,” Hansen told the Lawrence
Journal-World. “It is a process that takes place on a mass scale
every day, and we aren’t really allowed to see it.”
Assistant City Attorney Chad Sublet told the newspaper that the
public slaughter of chickens would be a violation of the city’s
animal cruelty code.
“I think one could argue there is a freedom of expression
interest here, but I think under our obligations to protect the
health, safety and public welfare it is an activity we can
regulate,” he told the Lawrence Journal-World.
Hansen told the newspaper on Monday her project will move
forward but in a way that complies with city code. Details of
what that new installation would include were still being worked
out, she said.
An email to Hansen on Tuesday by msnbc.com was not immediately
returned.
The original proposal sparked criticism from Lawrence’s
Compassion for All Animals Group and United Poultry Concerns,
the newspaper reported.
“There has been a lot of feedback,” Hansen told the newspaper.
“There has been a lot of meaningful dialogue and discussion and
that is good. The project will move forward to accommodate that
discussion, but it will abide by the city’s codes.”[/quote]
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Re: Chicken slaughter art project is cruel
By: Chiprocks1 Date: February 28, 2012, 1:09 pm
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Slaughtering Chickens for the sake of Art is horrible. Where do
you draw the line if that becomes accepted by society? I shudder
just thinking about it.
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Re: Chicken slaughter art project is cruel
By: Mac Date: February 28, 2012, 1:24 pm
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That's it. That's not what I'm getting from this. One of the
final results will be eating the chickens. Something done a
million times over every day. It's the slaughtering that's
hidden/ignored.
[quote]Hansen had planned to display chicken coops across the
eastern Kansas city with volunteers helping to care for the
birds. The exhibit was to end with the birds being killed and
served as a meal, the AP reported. Hansen wanted to draw
attention to the process of slaughtering animals.
“If people choose to eat meat, it is an important process to
witness and be mindful of,” Hansen told the Lawrence
Journal-World. “It is a process that takes place on a mass scale
every day, and we aren’t really allowed to see it.”[/quote]
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Re: Chicken slaughter art project is cruel
By: Chiprocks1 Date: February 28, 2012, 1:35 pm
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I really don't know what to make of this. He says he is trying
to bring awareness, but then he wants to humiliate those that
care for the chickens by making them it them on site. That's how
I'm seeing it and if that's the case, then he isn't really
making a point other than trying to draw attention to himself.
He must think the public at large is pretty ignorant in where
chicken legs and hamburgers come from that he needs to stage an
event like this to make a point. I dunno. I'm assuming we all
know about slaughter houses.
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Re: Chicken slaughter art project is cruel
By: Mac Date: February 28, 2012, 1:49 pm
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Sure he’s drawing attention to himself. I imagine that is at the
core of a most artists. Look at what I see.
This artist is using the slaughtering as tipping point and
making news.
While a lot of people probably know of slaughter houses, but I
would think, first they never use ‘slaughter’ in their
vocabulary because the don’t want to think about what goes on
this animal farms. I don’t and I’ve seen plenty. I’ve gotten to
the point of handling meat (shuddup) where I no longer think of
the nastiness of how it got there.
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Re: Chicken slaughter art project is cruel
By: Chiprocks1 Date: February 28, 2012, 1:51 pm
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I’ve gotten to the point of handling meat (shuddup)
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Denied!!
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