Missouri lawmaker explains chicken beheading video

If he could do it again, Missouri state Rep. Mike Moon figures he’d find another way to express his dismay with Missouri’s legislative process than beheading and processing a chicken on camera.

“I was just frustrated,” the Ash Grove Republican told The Star on Monday.

The legislator’s top priority this summer is getting an anti-abortion bill passed, and he wanted to convey that, as a farmer, he has work to do and he wants Gov. Eric Greitens and fellow legislators to get into a higher gear.

But reaction to his video on Facebook went wild, many commenters angry, many of them accusing Moon of trying to equate the processing of a chicken to the act of abortion.

Online petitions seeking Moon’s ouster gained steam at the close of last week. One on the Care2 website asked, “What does slaughtering a chicken have to do with banning abortion?”

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