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Chickens
Introduces chickens, the most common bird in the world by presenting facts about its physical characteristics, what it eats, where it lives, and the eggs which it lays.
24 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1996
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March 30, 2011
Chickens exemplifies the worst in children’s farm animal literature: the view of animals as mere insentient resources coupled with dishonesty about the ways in which these animals are raised.
The first page tells us:
Chickens are raised to lay eggs or to be eaten.
Ok, so we’re going to presumably see how chickens are raised on a modern industrial farm, right? Of course not. The photographs depict a small flock of chickens scratching in grass, nesting on straw, and strutting around in the sun in a grassy yard. If youngsters aren’t sufficiently mislead by the photos, we get the section titled “Where Chickens Live”:
Chickens live in a henhouse or chicken coop, often with a yard outside.
Indeed, this is where chickens should live, but the number who actually are raised this way is so tiny as to be commercially nonexistent. As author Jonathan Safran Foer points out, 99.9% of ‘meat’ chickens and 97% of egg-laying hens are reared in confinement on industrial-scale farms. Let’s face it, we need to stop lying to our children. Today’s agriculture situation can be conveyed in an age-appropriate way, but few authors are willing to take that extra step.
Another section offers up the facepalm-worthy heading “What Chickens Give Us”:
Chickens give us the eggs we buy in the store. Almost all chickens end up as meat for eating. Chicken is one of the most popular foods in the world.
The inference, of course, is that chickens happily give up their lives for menu options at KFC. (No, not particularly.) And, as pointed out before, the book could at least show some honesty about the source of “the eggs we buy at the store” and “one of the most popular foods in the world.”
Other titles in the series include Sheep, Pigs, Cows, Bulldozers, Fire Trucks, Freight Trains, and Tractors, if that tells you anything.
Chickens (Farm Animals)
by Peter Brady
The first page tells us:
Chickens are raised to lay eggs or to be eaten.
Ok, so we’re going to presumably see how chickens are raised on a modern industrial farm, right? Of course not. The photographs depict a small flock of chickens scratching in grass, nesting on straw, and strutting around in the sun in a grassy yard. If youngsters aren’t sufficiently mislead by the photos, we get the section titled “Where Chickens Live”:
Chickens live in a henhouse or chicken coop, often with a yard outside.
Indeed, this is where chickens should live, but the number who actually are raised this way is so tiny as to be commercially nonexistent. As author Jonathan Safran Foer points out, 99.9% of ‘meat’ chickens and 97% of egg-laying hens are reared in confinement on industrial-scale farms. Let’s face it, we need to stop lying to our children. Today’s agriculture situation can be conveyed in an age-appropriate way, but few authors are willing to take that extra step.
Another section offers up the facepalm-worthy heading “What Chickens Give Us”:
Chickens give us the eggs we buy in the store. Almost all chickens end up as meat for eating. Chicken is one of the most popular foods in the world.
The inference, of course, is that chickens happily give up their lives for menu options at KFC. (No, not particularly.) And, as pointed out before, the book could at least show some honesty about the source of “the eggs we buy at the store” and “one of the most popular foods in the world.”
Other titles in the series include Sheep, Pigs, Cows, Bulldozers, Fire Trucks, Freight Trains, and Tractors, if that tells you anything.
Chickens (Farm Animals)
by Peter Brady
May 25, 2011
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Repetitive words, all in Spanish (no English translation).
Helpful to understand verb tenses (for the native English speaker) prior to studying this book.
A Bridgestone Book from Capstone-press.com
Repetitive words, all in Spanish (no English translation).
Helpful to understand verb tenses (for the native English speaker) prior to studying this book.
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September 27, 2013This book, with Spanish text, shows the raising and caring of chickens.
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