Letter: Realize where food comes from

Tuesday, Dec. 12, 2000 | 9:47 a.m.

I am amazed at reports that a woman in Newport News, Va., has had trouble sleeping after finding a chicken head in her box of McDonald's chicken wings. What was this woman thinking? That chicken wings grew on a chicken wing tree?

The head was only a reality check that the chicken wings are the body parts of an animal that had a face. An animal that experienced pain and suffering, just as we do. An innocent animal condemned to death after a lifetime of imprisonment in a filthy, toxic shed, so that her wings could be served up to a McDonald's customer.

It's high time for consumers to wake up, find out where their food comes from, and learn to live with the consequences.

LAWRENCE LAMBERT

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