News Flash: Animals die on a farm!

**WhiskeyPapa** · 06-24-2004, 10:33 AM

The producers of French reality TV show Celebrity Farm are being sued over claims that animals died on set.

Arts France, which supplied the show's goats, ducks, chickens and a pony, said animals were not cared for properly.

Arts France said it was taking legal action against TV production company Endemol after the deaths of 15 chickens, a hen and a grey cock.

Celebrity Farm followed the experiences of 14 minor French celebrities locked in a remote farmhouse for 70 days.

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Legal action? Because some chickens died? I raise chickens, and they just die sometimes. Besides, 17 live chickens are worth maybe 20 bucks.

Get it? Bucks? "buck-buck-buck"! Hahahahaha!

**Jenny** · 06-24-2004, 11:01 AM

lol that joke was not that funny.

altho your enjoyment did give me a chuckle

and yeah... geez lol

**topane** · 06-24-2004, 11:14 AM

mmmmmm....fresh chicken....

**nickel** · 06-24-2004, 11:25 AM

disclaimer: no turduckens were killed in the filming of the show

**ShawnLee** · 06-24-2004, 12:07 PM

Oh wow. That was a bad pun. That was 2/3 of a pun. PU. That just wasn't very punny at all.

**bachviet** · 06-24-2004, 12:42 PM

It sounds like something PETA would do here in the States.

**gear02** · 06-24-2004, 01:33 PM

they should be sued for making a stupid show, not because some damned chickens died...

or better yet, they should be forced to f*ck the chickens...hehehe a la south park

**blueindian** · 06-24-2004, 02:30 PM

so if animals are not cared for properly you don't consider that cruel?

**molecularfire** · 06-24-2004, 04:31 PM

Not if the animal is not cute or vagely resembles a human, nope.

**Nija** · 06-24-2004, 06:01 PM

Originally Posted by blueindian

so if animals are not cared for properly you don't consider that cruel?

dude, i hate it when my chicken isn't cured properly...

woops

**eSDee** · 06-24-2004, 08:10 PM

I don't know much about the lifespans of farm animals, but I also wouldn't dismiss the case just because animals do die on farms. Sometimes people aren't qualified to take care of large amounts of animals even if they think it is a good idea when they take them all in. There are "rescue" groups for animals that are mistreated or left for dead on farms. I don't know if this TV shows farm had adequate treatment or not, but I wouldn't dismiss it automatically until I knew more info.

**blueindian** · 06-25-2004, 04:55 AM

Originally Posted by eSDeeLoco

I don't know much about the lifespans of farm animals, but I also wouldn't dismiss the case just because animals do die on farms. Sometimes people aren't qualified to take care of large amounts of animals even if they think it is a good idea when they take them all in. There are "rescue" groups for animals that are mistreated or left for dead on farms. I don't know if this TV shows farm had adequate treatment or not, but I wouldn't dismiss it automatically until I knew more info.

i'll tell you this; when i lived on a farm we had chickens (small coop, 15 or so hens at a time) and in my entire time i never saw that many die.

it could well depend in the type of chicken. in america we generally have 2 types (at least commercially). broilers are bred to grow up nice and fat in a real short time and they will just keel over and die if not slaughtered. they'll start having heart attacks at around 12 weeks if i remember correctly. layers on the other had can live for several years, though in practice are slaughtered much sooner. the birds from which our chickens were bred live for years.

**WhiskeyPapa** · 06-25-2004, 06:43 AM

Yup, the broilers live fast, die young, and leave a tasty carcass. Occasionally one or two will escape on the day we take them to be processed and will invariably die of a heart attack within a few weeks. We've even had chickens have heart attacks while we're loading them in the trailer to go to the processor. We just clean 'em real quick and throw them in the freezer.

Our layers will live five years or more, but stop being productive after about three years. We don't butcher the old hens, since they help by keeping the bug population down. They also act as coyote fodder. They'll usually get eaten before the younger, faster hens.

The story says two of the chickens died under accidental circumstances (even I've killed a chicken by accidentally dropping a bale of hay on it) while the other 14 died en mass from eating something toxic. While unfortunate, it's not unheard of for farm animals to die because something like rat poison or fertilizer was carelessly left out.

I guess the point of my post was not to say cruelty is acceptable. My point is that 17 chickens are not worth much money, hardly worth the effort to sue someone.

**blueindian** · 06-25-2004, 07:15 AM

Originally Posted by kb0wwp

I guess the point of my post was not to say cruelty is acceptable. My point is that 17 chickens are not worth much money, hardly worth the effort to sue someone.

there is a difference though between chickens who die accidentally on a farm that is for food production vs. chickens that die because some idiot on a reality tv show has no clue how to care for them.

dead chickens for food? fine.

dead chickens for entertainment?