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boston bean

(36,221 posts)
Tue Jun 19, 2018, 07:19 PM Jun 2018

My thoughts today.

I guess in this country some care more about cage free chickens and eggs than they do about caged children.

Depressing and outrageous.

This is not who I thought we were as a country and I am disgusted it what we have become.

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The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,732 posts)
2. I suspect that many of the same people who don't care about caged children
Tue Jun 19, 2018, 07:21 PM
Jun 2018

aren't interested in cage-free chickens and eggs, either.

hlthe2b

(102,290 posts)
3. Please don't...
Tue Jun 19, 2018, 07:25 PM
Jun 2018

I am in the darkest of depression, despite spending hours the past several days calling, signing petitions, and writing letters to every congressman, Senator, Governor, "religious" leader, civil rights organization, and progressive group I could think of. I am not sleeping and frankly, getting nothing else done.

That doesn't stop me (nor will it ever stop me from) being concerned for animal welfare. It isn't either/or. In truth, it is those who feel most intensely protective toward the weakest among us--children, the elderly, the infirmed, the disabled... who likewise have those feelings for animals.

Bluepinky

(2,275 posts)
10. Yes, many of us don't want children in cages, nor do we want animals mistreated.
Wed Jun 20, 2018, 04:09 AM
Jun 2018

Why can’t we be against both?

boston bean

(36,221 posts)
6. Umm let me see......
Tue Jun 19, 2018, 08:08 PM
Jun 2018

Children in cages.

Yep that’s it.

And it is being done by our country. And there are about 40% who think its just fine and dandy.

 

RandomAccess

(5,210 posts)
7. What makes you think that that 40% or any sizable portion of it
Tue Jun 19, 2018, 08:58 PM
Jun 2018

are the people who are interested in cage free chickens and eggs?

AFAIC it's a preposterous comparison. But please, tell us how you came up with it.

boston bean

(36,221 posts)
8. It is using hyperbole to make a point. If you don't get it you son't get it.
Tue Jun 19, 2018, 09:11 PM
Jun 2018

Not exactly sure how I came up with it. I think my brain thought of it.

oasis

(49,389 posts)
11. The fact that Trump believes this kind of depravity is a "winning strategy"
Wed Jun 20, 2018, 04:16 AM
Jun 2018

proves your point.

Wake up America.

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