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Comment on The Story of Chickens – A Revolution by Bambi Smother

Bambi Smother — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 16:51:18 +0000

Good heavens above, what a bunch of children!!!!! Didn’t your mamas ever tell you to just stop squabbling and get on with your chores? Can’t you see this old earth is coming apart at the seams, while you are spending all this time and energy throwing a hissy fit over FIVE CHICKENS?! Your new flatscreen tv probably killed a whole bunch more living things on its way to your house!

Myself, I love any critter with big eyes that looks cute in cartoons. But Lord love us, if they had a chance they would eat you quick as a wink. Your pretty little kitty will eat your face off if you die alone at home. Chickens and hogs eat flesh whenever they get a chance. Anybody who has any real life knowledge of animals knows that.

Don’t you know that most people around here don’t want to talk to you any more, because you are full of yourself, mean-spirited, fingers in your ears, little brats? Even if you could bully and force this nice young lady (who I have met, have you?) to change her plans, what would you have won? People will just dislike you and the things you believe even more.

Grown up people learn to talk nicely to each other, and that means listening as well as speaking. And if your argument can’t change people’s minds that way (without all the silly snuff, porn, torture, children stuff) then maybe it’s not a good one.

Please grow up and do something that will really make a difference.

Bambi

Comment on The Story of Chickens – A Revolution by Art Reflection: highlighting recent arts news | Continued Traditions

Art Reflection: highlighting recent arts news | Continued Traditions — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 16:21:50 +0000

[...] art lecturer Amber Hansen will showcase her mobile chicken coop, “The Story of Chickens: A Revolution,” at different locations in Lawrence. This art project means to generate dialogue between people to [...]

Comment on The Story of Chickens – A Revolution by cath ens-hurwood

cath ens-hurwood — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 14:59:15 +0000

there is nothing transparent, respectful, or indeed necessary in the killing of the chickens for ART’S SAKE. as for inspiration or shock value, it is neither…it’s all been done before, ad nauseum – lady gaga’s meat dress, another “artist” recently wanting to snuff out rats as part of his display and many other s – hit google and enter Meat Art….all a bit nauseating and a well trodden trail of blood.

Comment on The Story of Chickens – A Revolution by A. David

A. David — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 13:24:43 +0000

Dear Rocket Grants program,

“Freedom of expression” – Charles Manson was quite creative in his killing style – if he wanted to have an exhibit of pictures of his exploits in that area, would that be considered freedom of expression? What about creative child pornography? Or is your limit simply what is within the law? That as long as something is vulnerable enough that the law doesn’t protect it, then neither will you? If that’s truly how you feel, then I feel really sorry for you – or I should….really I feel sorry for anything that comes under your power. If you cannot see that killing sentient beings to make an “artistic” point is cowardly and cruel, then you are missing something in life that no one will be able to provide you.

Comment on The Story of Chickens – A Revolution by Protest The Percolator « Wild Love Photography Blog

Protest The Percolator « Wild Love Photography Blog — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 11:32:20 +0000

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Comment on The Story of Chickens – A Revolution by Debra Roppolo

Debra Roppolo — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 02:39:38 +0000

Let me get this straight — to raise awareness about the relationship between humans and other animals, she’s going to KILL CHICKENS? And it’s an ART PROJECT? And this is being done to demonstrate RESPECT? That is one of the most appalling, misguided, perverted things I’ve ever heard of. If she did it with kittens, people would go crazy. There’s not much — if any — fundamental difference between the two. These chickens have lives and personalities and their own social relationships, and a highly vested interest in continuing to live those lives. If the “artist” (and I use the word very loosely) wants to draw attention to the relationship between humans and so-called food animals, there are many more productive ways she can do so that don’t involve the senseless killing of five helpless animals. Maybe she could just raise some and not take anything from them in exchange, and understand what a real relationship is with a non-human animal. This is absolutely disgusting.

Comment on The Story of Chickens – A Revolution by CT

CT — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 01:36:08 +0000

http://www.upc-online.org/entertainment/120223percolator_art_slaughter.html

Comment on The Story of Chickens – A Revolution by Beth Lily

Beth Lily — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 23:03:54 +0000

Please Cancel “The Story of Chickens”
It is with disgust and dismay that I read about the Spencer Museum of Art’s plans to sponsor Amber Hansen’s “The Story of Chickens” event which purports to be a revolutionary examination of the relationship between people and chickens. There is nothing revolutionary about parading traumatized caged chickens in high traffic areas, followed by a demonstration of violently beheading them, and culminating in a meal in which the public is invited to feast on the mutilated corpses of those animals. Just as “The Emperor Has No Clothes,” the SMA’s superficial defense of this crude snuff “art” project as “an artist’s right to self-expression” reflects a serious lack of cultural and moral depth. If the SMA is touting the enormous outpouring of public outrage as evidence of a “revolutionary” project, then they are missing the point entirely: that throughout the world, all civilized people abhor gratuitous violence. I respectfully call on the SMA to cancel the event, or at least eliminate the slaughter of live animals and allow the chickens to be adopted by Farm Sanctuary, as well as to adopt a “No Live Animals” policy going forward. Otherwise, they bear lifelong responsibility for the ridicule of the Kansas arts community as a haven for antiquated, violent, and bloody animal slaughter masquerading as “art.”

Comment on The Story of Chickens – A Revolution by Dan More

Dan More — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 22:36:19 +0000

This is violence, masked in tradition, obfuscated by art. Please don’t perpetuate the bloodlust that occurs on factory (and other) farms every day in our country. If you want to tell the story of chickens — not the story of man’s use of chickens — you would be more correct to study the tropical jungle fowl in Southeast asia.

Stop the slaughter.

Comment on The Story of Chickens – A Revolution by Humane KS

Humane KS — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 22:34:38 +0000

In addition, at least one new study indicates that grazed cattle emit more methane than feedlot cattle. http://vegetarianmythmyth.wordpress.com/ Here’s a quote from that article “it’s time to move the conversation forward: the ethics of, and cognitive dissonance that is necessary for, “humane meat”, grass-fed meat, and pasture farming are highly questionable; and we have to contend with those questions now if we want to deal with the crises of ecology, psychology, and ethics that are literally destroying the earth.”