{"id":5343,"date":"2013-09-05T11:40:36","date_gmt":"2013-09-05T17:40:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/macblaze.ca\/?p=5343"},"modified":"2013-09-05T11:42:04","modified_gmt":"2013-09-05T17:42:04","slug":"omg-stupid-human-tricks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/?p=5343","title":{"rendered":"OMG: More Stupid Human Tricks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some one donated $50,000 to a chicken rescue society, which is silly enough:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Their egg-laying days behind them, some 1,200 Northern California chickens are heading for a cozy retirement on the East Coast, where they will live outside of cages and have plenty of room to spread their wings.<br \/>\nThe Sacramento Bee reports that an anonymous $50,000 US donation is funding Operation Chicken Airlift &#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But then they tried to make the story more dramatic by adding the following statement:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Laying hens are generally too lean for human consumption and are usually slaughtered after they stop providing eggs.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Wow, it really is sad that the poor chickens are <em>slaughtered<\/em> rather than <strong>eaten<\/strong> when their egg-laying days are done. Eating them would be way more humane. And tasty.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/world\/story\/2013\/09\/05\/chickens-retirement.html\">http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/world\/story\/2013\/09\/05\/chickens-retirement.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some one donated $50,000 to a chicken rescue society, which is silly enough: Their egg-laying days behind them, some 1,200 Northern California chickens are heading for a cozy retirement on the East Coast, where they will live outside of cages and have plenty of room to spread their wings. The Sacramento Bee reports that an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5343"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}