Solitary Confinement in a White Supremacy System
/Below Buddhist Monk Thich Nhat Hanh is speaking on the inhumane treatment of chickens but such treatment is similar to the treatment of non-whites in a white supremacy system, which has a goal of the greater confinement of a substantial number of non-whites - particularly Black men held in solitary confinement - like Black Panther Albert Woodfox. He is the last remaining member of the Angola 3 behind bars. A United Nations official said in a statement Monday that "keeping Albert Woodfox in solitary confinement for more than four decades clearly amounts to torture and it should be lifted immediately." [MORE] That is, he has been detained alone in a small space - 23 hours a day.
"Nowadays, chickens are raised in large-scale modern farms where they cannot walk, run, or seek food in the soil. They are fed solely by humans. They are kept in small cages and cannot move at all. Day and night they have to stand. Imagine that you have no right to walk or to run. Imagine that you have to stay day and night in just one place. You would become mad. So the chickens become mad.
In order for the chickens to produce more eggs, the farmers create artificial days and nights. They use indoor lighting to create a shorter day and a shorter night so that the chickens believe that twenty-four hours have passed, and then they produce more eggs. There is a lot of anger, a lot of frustration, and much suffering in the chickens. They express their anger and frustration by attacking the chickens next to them. They use their beaks to peck and wound each other. They cause each other to bleed, to suffer, and to die. That is why farmers now cut the beaks off all the chickens, to prevent them from attacking each other out of frustration." [MORE]
