+421 It would be an interesting experiment to lock a vegetarian in a room for a week with nothing there except a knife, an oven, and a live chicken, amirite?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

without water, eating the chicken would speed up the process of dehydration.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Okay, say there's water.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

then, depending on their resolve and initial state of health, they'd probably just stick the week out. people can go a lot longer than that without food.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Well, the point is to conduct the study on several vegetarians. Or maybe just let them out when they eat the chicken and record how long each one took.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

great, you made this boring >: i don't like people like you

by Anonymous 13 years ago

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by Anonymous 13 years ago

It's a lot of effort to kill a live chicken and make it edible though. Maybe, daily, offer them a plate of chicken?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I've seen it done in a Guatemalan street market many a times. It's not that hard. Throw in a pamphlet and they should have no problem.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Well, even if someone wasn't a vegetarian they might have a hard time doing that.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I never said anything about being a vegetarian. When I said 'throw in a pamphlet and they should have no problem' I was referring to the general sheltered population who receive their chickens from factories.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I know, I know. I'm just staying relevant to the post.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

lmao! im vegetarian. i would probally kill and prepare the chicken the first day and grow the balls to eat it by the second day. im not a peta activist or whatever. i was just raised vegetarian, and i think eating meat is gross. but if theres nothing else; i'd eat it.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I like you for being the practical, non-self righteous kind of vegetarian :)

by Anonymous 13 years ago

haha, the self righteous ones are vegetarian just for the hell of saying they are. and thanks :)

by Anonymous 13 years ago

@1006650 (Chantel): I like both of you

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I'm vegetarian too and I'd do the same thing. Meat is yucky, but I'm not going to starve myself. Poor chicken, though.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I would ditch the knife, make the chicken my pet, and share the water with her for the week. Also, we would eat the eggs.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

(...): The chicken would eat her own eggs?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

(...): what if it was a male chicken?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Thats a rooster, dear.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

well a female chicken is called a hen. Either way, they're all chickens.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

what about an experiment where you lock a hard core meat eater in a room with only a plate of tofu.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Oh yeah, I'd kill myself

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I'm a vegetarian, and I would never be able to kill a live chicken. So I guess I'd just have to go a week without food.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

What if they kept you in there until you eat the chicken? would you rather starve to death?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I would.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

ah, easier said than done...

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Meh, not really. Maybe for those who value their lives. Bottom line, I wouldn't be able to kill the chicken. Whether my life depended on it or not.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Well, throughout history, famines lead to mass cannibalism. Among normal, respectable citizens. Hunger, actual hunger, can lead people to do pretty crazy things. In retrospect, killing a chicken when you're starving is pretty mild.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Not mild to me, but we all have our different points of views. Now, if it was a plate of chicken or something, I would certainly eat it.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Well, that's not a fun experiment...

by Anonymous 13 years ago

@1007105 (Anonymous): For me, vegetarianism is not so much about the animal's rights (though those are important) as it is that I'm uncomfortable with the concept of eating an animal that used to be alive. I personally think it's gross. So yes, I'd probably starve to death before I could work up the nerve to kill another living thing and then eat it.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

No mink coat for you then, I guess...

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Oh darn.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

If they haven't had meat for a long time eating the chicken could actually make them very sick.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Something like that actually happened to me. When I was little I despised the taste of beef, and then 2 years ago I had a steak for the first time in a while, and I got horrible nausea and stomach pains from it. I had to get used to eating beef little by little.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I'm not a vegetarian but I'm pretty sure I still wouldn't slaughter the chicken.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

...Eggs are pretty good protein...I wonder how long I could go before my willpower crumbled though?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

i'm not even a vegetarian and i wouldnt kill a live chicken. its true that i probably could never be a vegetarian, but its also true that if slaughter houses had glass walls, we would all be vegetarians.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Didn't Paul McCartney say that?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

i dont know. but its a great quote.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I'm a pretty hardcore vegetarian, but even if I DID get hungry enough to eat the chicken I'm pretty sure I would fuck up the process of slaughtering it and preparing it and give myself food poisoning. Or choke on a fragment of bone or something.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

harsh!

by Anonymous 13 years ago

im a vegetarian... I wouldnt eat it... :/

by Anonymous 13 years ago

don't be so sadistic! Give them a piece of straw to chew on :D

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I wouldn't have the heart to kill the chicken.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

the only reason im vegetarian is because killing other things for ur survival is messed up if you can survive on other things.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

but meat is so tasty!

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Y'all talk like vegetarians are some sort of mutant breed or something...

by Anonymous 13 years ago

shhhhhh!! Stop hinting everyone about the experiment i did 5,000 years ago that went horribly horribly wrong creating a new bread of herbivorous homo sapiens while also creating radioactive waves that made me have terrible spelling and grammer mistakes!!!

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Well, unlike some others here, I couldn't say for sure unless I was in the situation, but I would put off killing the chicken for as long as possible.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

There has to be water... So, let's say there's water. I'm a vegetarian, and I would drink only water and starve for the week, not eating the chicken. How would the chicken eat?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I'm a vegetarian, and I'd like to be all integrous and be like 'ew i could never kill and eat a chicken!' but who am i kidding. i'd be starving.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

The only reason I'm a vegetarian is because I just don't like the taste of meat. If I was locked up for a week, I would sure as hell eat that chicken.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I eat meat and you could lock me in a room with a live chicken for a week and i still wouldnt kill it and eat it.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Lock a PETA member in there and see what happens. For vegetarians like me, eating chicken is better than dying, and the experiment would be rather boring.

by Anonymous 13 years ago