In fairness to Brian, this is what he responded to and I don'tCranberry wrote:The thread may have been National Enquirer-ish in it's mood, but it shouldn't have been. A real chicken was actually assaulted and KILLED. Anytime a chicken (or any person or animal) is assaulted (sexually or otherwise), it's a horrible thing.
BTW, I played along with the xxxchurch link, not the assault on the innocent chicken.
Edited to add, before it's brought up, that yes it's also a tragedy that the man involved killed himself. But that was his choice. It was not the chicken's choice to be so brutally treated.
think it's a big stretch to see this as vegetarian
preaching. The response was excessive, if I may say so.
And the two posts cancel each other nicely. So there.
I don't know what it means to say that this is a family site.
In the past we have said onboard that this isn't for
children, when the objection arose that some posts
might not be readable by children.
I thought that policy makes sense. We say what we
think, civilly, parental discretion advised. I think it's
worked well enough for nearly a decade. Is something
changing? Best