Comments on: Am I Chicken for Not Attending Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day?

By: Benjamin P. Glaser

Benjamin P. Glaser — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 16:49:17 +0000

Thank you Patrick for your comments.

By: patrick

patrick — Mon, 06 Aug 2012 13:18:01 +0000

People like Ben should, first, learn to make reasonable arguments. How is it, in any way, a sufficient argument for a moral claim X that some people one knows who are involved in the practice X think the practice is fine? (And from a pastor no less. One would surely hope Ben does not approach all questions in ethics with such flippancy.) Second, people like Ben should do some actual research, and the topics like the cognitive and experiential capacities of mammals, the conditions of many factory farms, and so on, are extensively researched and come out as a serious moral issue on every extant ethical theory.

Unfortunately Reformed pastors are no less free from cultural and ethical myopia than evangelicals, and this isn’t a conversation most Reformed will be having any time soon either (even though people that work in ethics–Christian or non–are overwhelmingly decided on this issue, for it is an easy moral conclusion that animals ought not be subject to unnecessarily painful conditions.)

By: James J. Cassidy

James J. Cassidy — Sun, 05 Aug 2012 23:51:23 +0000

In reply to Charles Hyneman. Charles, I guess I am only a 1-sided fool as I believe both the ELCA and the RCC are equally anti-Christian. Sorry I missed the deuce, though.

By: Charles Hyneman

Charles Hyneman — Sat, 04 Aug 2012 13:13:31 +0000

I read your article until you described Catholics as non-Christians. Then I realized you are a fool as described is Proverbs ans stopped reading. What specifically makes you think Catholics, who are the only Christians who stand up for the unborn by truly following Christ, are not Christians? Would you call the ELCA Lutherans Christians? If your answer to that questions is yes, the you have earned the designation as fool x 2.

By: Frank Aderholdt

Frank Aderholdt — Sat, 04 Aug 2012 03:47:26 +0000

All these conversations have run a-fowl of my sensibilities. You won’t get a peep out of me.

By: souless Chiken

souless Chiken — Fri, 03 Aug 2012 18:42:20 +0000

I like how the word humane is used when referring to Chicken…

By: Benjamin P. Glaser

Benjamin P. Glaser — Fri, 03 Aug 2012 15:04:24 +0000

In reply to RN. I think I noted having a factory farmer in my congregation so I certainly think that is a yes to the visitation question. But to do that one better not only have visited one, I worked at a similar turkey factory farm in High School sweeping the feces off the floor. The "Food, Inc." doc was so incredibly biased and nonfactual to be almost farcical.

By: RN

RN — Fri, 03 Aug 2012 14:57:27 +0000

In reply to Benjamin P. Glaser.

Curious – have you ever even visited any of these “factory farms”?

By: RN

RN — Fri, 03 Aug 2012 14:56:21 +0000

The earlier comment is a valid one – I don’t think CFA is known for raising up cage-free, organically-fed chickens, but rather chickens of the inhumane, packed in, windowless, deafening variety as you can see in documentaries like ‘Food, Inc.’

But back on topic, I personally find the entire issue ridiculous that we govern opinion by means of chicken sandwiches. Maybe I miss my mark, but the apostle Paul never spoke about engaging the secular government and society at large by means of ordering overly-salty fried chicken sandwiches.

By: Benjamin P. Glaser

Benjamin P. Glaser — Fri, 03 Aug 2012 14:08:31 +0000

I don’t want to turn this into a post about factory farming, but as one that lives in the south of Mississippi and has “factory farming” chicken farmers in his congregation the idea that it is “ethically horrendous” is absurd.

But to the OP I am not sure we have to do either. The only reason I didn’t go yesterday is that if there is one thing I dislike more than anything it is waiting in long lines. And the only reason I won’t be going to Chick-Fil-A today is I have no interest in being involved in what is likely going to be a “bait-catching” exercise by the sodomites.

By: patrick

patrick — Fri, 03 Aug 2012 13:48:19 +0000

One good reason not to go to CFA is because factory farming is ethically horrendous.
But evangelicals, in their cultural myopia, have long since picked their moral stance and won’t be having that (or other) debates any time soon.

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Fri, 03 Aug 2012 13:39:20 +0000

Jim,

Well put! Loved it.