Friday, February 1, 2013

Chicken Wing Shortage

We seem to hear this claim right around Super Bowl time each year these days: there is a shortage of chicken wings. (That’s how they can gouge us on the prices.) You’d think they would have genetically engineered a chicken with ten wings by now, but apparently not. (Seriously: Would that not be an effective solution?) So how about chicken breast strips instead? (Or is that too gross for football parties?)

And to get people not to want to eat chicken wings, perhaps PeTA could show a picture of a bunch of chickens Photoshopped to look like they’ve had their wings cut off while they are still alive, and say how America’s hunger for chicken wings causes unimaginable suffering to countless helpless chickens. (I like eating meat, but this idea might be an effective one for PeTA.)

Here’s the weak clucking story: