American Nazi Party leader George Lincoln Rockwell confronting Martin Luther King, Jr. in front of the Dallas County Courthouse during a voter registration drive led by King, Alabama, 1965.

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Two South Vietnamese children gaze at an American paratrooper holding an M79 grenade launcher as they cling to their mothers who huddle against a canal bank for protection from sniper fire in the Bao Trai area, Vietnam, 1966.

Penguinator

United States837 Posts

February 03 2014 22:19 GMT

#1966

On February 03 2014 19:21 Manit0u wrote:
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KFC food processing.

Are.... Are you serious?

perrysnagy

United States32 Posts

February 03 2014 22:41 GMT

#1967

Right in the feels

trumpet43

4 Posts

February 03 2014 22:56 GMT

#1968

On February 04 2014 07:19 Penguinator wrote:

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Are.... Are you serious?

I was curious and shocked as well, so I did a bit of digging.

It's called chick culling. I don't think that is a KFC hatchery because that practice is done primarily for chickens bread specifically to lay eggs. Since they don't have as good tasting meat as the bread specifically engineered for eating, the male egging chicks have no purpose. Soon after being sexed they are euthanized. Maceration, as seen in the gif, is probably the quickest way for this to be done. Electrocution is becoming more popular though.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chick_culling

http://www.examiner.com/article/hatchery-defends-itself-as-chicks-are-ground-up-alive

Personally this makes me reluctant to eat chicken or eggs, but I think in the grand scheme of things it is something my personal character can live with. Sucks that this is how things work though.

EDIT: Also it is definitely NOT food processing. It is euthanasia to dispose of what the egg company sees as excess material.

PassiveAce

United States18076 Posts

February 03 2014 23:05 GMT

#1969

still tho...

oGoZenob

France1503 Posts

February 03 2014 23:10 GMT

#1970

at least it's pretty fast, I don't think they have the time to feel anything

Liman

Serbia681 Posts

February 04 2014 00:01 GMT

#1971

Smoru

United States83 Posts

February 04 2014 01:52 GMT

#1972

On February 04 2014 09:01 Liman wrote:
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for those interested, this is the wiki article that came up when i image searched: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yugoslav_Partisans
The picture caption from said article: Partisan fighter Stjepan "Stevo" Filipović shouting "Death to fascism, freedom to the People!" seconds before his execution by a Serbian State Guard (local collaborator) unit in Valjevo, occupied Yugoslavia.

Cheerio

Ukraine3178 Posts

February 06 2014 17:10 GMT

#1973

http://worldobserveronline.com/2013/12/18/20-photographs-will-leave-speechless-especially-6th-one-words/?utm_source=taboola&utm_medium=referral

A soldier making the long walk to defuse a car bomb in Northern Ireland.
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Regina Walters, moments before being murdered – Robert Ben Rhoades was a truck driver/serial killer that liked to pick up hitchhikers and torture them for a while in his truck before killing them. One of his victims was a 14 year old runaway from Texas named Regina Walters. Walters’ remains were found in an abandoned barn in Illinois. However, her disappearance wasn’t connected to Rhoades until after Rhoades was arrested for abducting another woman. When police searched Rhoades’ home they found this photo.
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Nazi rally at Nuremberg in 1937.
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This photo was taken by astronaut Michael Collins, when he took this photo he was the only human, alive or dead, that wasn’t in the frame of this picture. He travelled with Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong and orbited the moon whilst they were landing to study the surface of the moon from farther out.
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Lithuanian man in shock after accidentally hitting and killing an eight year old.
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Turkish official teases starving Armenian children by showing them a piece of bread during the Armenian Genocide in 1915.
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A Filipino politician took this photo of his family moments before being assassinated.
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Two engineers died when the windmill they were working on caught fire. This might be the last picture taken of them alive. Picture was taken on October 29th, 2013 in the Netherlands.
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The orange Sossusvlei sand dunes in Namibia.
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Boy tries to wake up his alcoholic father.
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Man uses the suicide hotline on the Golden Gate Bridge.
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World War II veteran from Belarus Konstantin Pronin, 86, sits on a bench as he waits for his comrades at Gorky park during Victory Day in Moscow, Russia, on Monday, May 9, 2011. Konstantin comes to this place every year. This year he was the only person from the unit to show.
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Undulating clouds.
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Foblos

United States426 Posts

February 08 2014 13:56 GMT

#1974

Tread could use a little more happy

Loxley

Netherlands2480 Posts

February 08 2014 14:31 GMT

#1975

On February 08 2014 22:56 Foblos wrote:
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Thank you for this little bit more of happy! Really could use it after the Chicken culling and other photo's on this page..

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A young monk at the monastery in Myanmar

Manit0u

Poland17784 Posts

February 08 2014 15:32 GMT

#1976

The liger is a hybrid cross between a male lion and a tigress. Thus, it has parents with the same genus but of different species. It is distinct from the similar hybrid tigon. It is the largest of all known extant felines.

Twice the size of an adult tiger.

Thalandros

Netherlands1151 Posts

February 08 2014 16:44 GMT

#1977

On February 03 2014 19:21 Manit0u wrote:
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KFC food processing.

This made me do more research on the subject of how KFC handle their chicken, and it might mostly be in the states but it's actually almost as bad as this. Thanks for silently enlightening me. Only eating biological chicken/eggs ever again.

By the way, the chick culling that was linked: Apparently another common form is Asphyxiation. I want to puke and then die now. Jesus christ... x.x

Manit0u

Poland17784 Posts

February 08 2014 19:17 GMT

#1978

On February 09 2014 01:44 Thalandros wrote:

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No worries. Some of the research suggests that at the current rate of world development and population increase we probably won't be able to feed enough people in 10-30 years from now (30 being very optimistic, and we're talking developed countries here, not 3rd world). Imagine the kind of food you'll be eating then...