If the people of the United States and some other "civilized" countries had to kill their meat before they ate it, there would be no "McDonalds".

I think I was about 7 years old and living in West Allis, Wisconsin when my father took me down to the basement to cut off a chickens head before preparing it for the meal. Held the chicken by its feet and manuvered the neck onto the wood chopping block and did a clean cut. The reaction of the chicken caused the headless body to break free of my grip and it ran around bumping into things in the basement, and spraying blood all over the place. I can not to this day understand how the body of that headless bird could balance itself and run around. I have never asked anyone about that untill now.

Human balance is in the inner ear and I understand that if our heads are cut off, we can not balance ourselves and stand or run around. Anyone know about chickens?

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