jwz: Today in Chicken Vacuum News

28 Responses:

mactavish says:

14 years ago at 3:22 pm

I'm not giving up poultry, but I think I just permanently, rather than "when I can," changed what poultry I eat.
- nightrider says:
  
  14 years ago at 3:53 pm
  
  ...this is relatively minor example of how consumable animals are treated on high-volume farms.
  
  There are, of course "kinder" animal product alternatives to be found at places such as Rainbow Grocery; but in the end, they all get their heads chopped off before you eat 'em.
  
  "...off with your head!"
  - jsl32 says:
    
    14 years ago at 7:03 pm
    
    eh, so do plenty of veggies. but they don't make any delightful and sympathy-inspiring noises, so that makes it ok, or something.
    - nightrider says:
      
      14 years ago at 8:49 pm
      
      "eh, so do plenty of veggies. but they don't make any delightful and sympathy-inspiring noises, so that makes it ok, or something."
      
      Which is precisely why I'm a Breatharian. Poor, poor, little broccolis. They never even had a chance...
      - jsl32 says:
        
        14 years ago at 9:21 pm
        
        you talk good for a dead person.
ammutbite says:

14 years ago at 3:24 pm

You've gotta tell them!...Soylent Green is Chicken!
chuck_lw says:

14 years ago at 3:42 pm

That's just a scale-model prototype for what they'll use on US!
- howie_d_rivet says:
  
  14 years ago at 1:12 am
  
  i was just thinking of how this would be pretty effective for riot control.
gutbloom says:

14 years ago at 3:50 pm

How did this escape the "grim meathook future" tag?
doctorfedora says:

14 years ago at 4:27 pm

Maybe it makes me a horrible person, but I found it richly amusing when the thing shot the bewildered chickens into the big rack box thing.
- j_v_lynch says:
  
  14 years ago at 6:16 pm
  
  All chickens are bewildered.
poopsmoothie says:

14 years ago at 5:53 pm

NOT VEGAN
lordshell says:

14 years ago at 7:06 pm

That hurt my brain.

You must have a team working for you to find this weird shit, don't you? No one man can find all of this.
- benediktus says:
  
  14 years ago at 5:29 am
  
  maybe it's called boingboing.net....
govtpiggy says:

14 years ago at 11:32 pm

What efficiency! As an engineer, I'm impressed.
marc_lacoste says:

14 years ago at 1:34 am

History repeating. This was in one of your comments eighteen months ago.
baconmonkey says:

14 years ago at 3:48 am

While that robot sucks chickens out of the barn, This robot starts them out, launching chicks into the barn where they may grow up big and strong (in 8 months).

Also, can we get a bigger one of these for closing time?

Also, also, someone out there in lazywebland needs to write a screensaver incorporating both of these machines, plus the growth and maturation of the launched chickes into harvest worthy chickens.
- ritcey says:
  
  14 years ago at 9:44 am
  
  Am I a bad person for repeatedly laughing out loud while watching this?
  - cessibaby says:
    
    14 years ago at 11:25 pm
    
    it won't be so funny when you're reincarnated as a tortured farm animal will it now.
    - ritcey says:
      
      14 years ago at 7:41 am
      
      Just as well, then, that reincarnation isn't one of the doctrines of my religion. Plus I'm unsure how well developed a chicken's sense of humor is nor, as I understand it, would I remember laughing at such a situation when I was in a human incarnation, so the irony would be lost on my chicken-self. And, again, I'm not sure chickens are big on irony. I'll give you that "it won't be so funny when you're reincarnated as 'X'" is a nice all-purpose line that can be used for pretty much any situation that you disapprove of.
      - cessibaby says:
        
        14 years ago at 8:45 am
        
        don't condescend please. it's an unattractive quality.
        
        ritcey says:
        
        14 years ago at 9:04 am
        
        Claiming that, according to your particular religious beliefs, I'm going to be punished in a later life for laughing at this is somehow attractive?
        
        cessibaby says:
        
        14 years ago at 9:12 am
        
        you're missing my point. the point is not about religious dogma. the point is if you were empathetic to other living creatures, it would cease to be funny.
        
        jwz says:
        
        14 years ago at 1:04 pm
        
        All humor is derived from the suffering of others. And you're a weenie.
rapier1 says:

14 years ago at 9:25 am

Oh. My. God.

This makes me so deleriously happy.
cessibaby says:

14 years ago at 11:26 pm

most of your links are awesome. this is sick and everything thats wrong with our culture.
- jwz says:
  
  14 years ago at 1:55 am
  
  Everything? Really?
  - 205guy says:
    
    14 years ago at 10:41 am
    
    I think cessibaby is saying that vacuuous pop singers (and their video producers) are that way because they eat industrial chicken. I think JWZ is saying that sick and culture-warping items make awesome links.
    
    BTW, after JWZ previous links to sadistic content, I admit I winced when clicking on those links, but I ... just ... couldn't ... resist.