Marcus wrote:
Don't be born a chicken!
https://ourworldindata.org/data-insights/billions-of-chickens-ducks-and-pigs-are-slaughtered-for-meat-every-year
We are on our third crew of laying hens (in 20 years) as our own way to
try to maintain some animal protein in our otherwise vegetarian diet
while minimizing the intrinsic cruelty of agri-industrial animal
product production. I don't know that we are far from Atwood's
ChickieNobs and of course Pigoons (we will all need a new heart, liver,
kidney sometime won't we?).
https://medium.com/culture-dysphoria/chickienobs-and-ecological-dignity-cdfcfec4d5eb
I do love me some good Atwoodian Dystopia!
We still consume about a quart of cow-cream and 1/2 lb of butter a week
in our not-shade-grown on-free-trade Trader Joe's coffee and on our Stir
Fried veg (grown in MX in the winter?), Ukrainian grain-bread toast? We
might raise a couple of pygmy goats for those products yet what would we
do with the "boys" when fresh birthing is required every few years to
keep the milk flowing?
Like all good first-worlders, we have avoided the reality of the "end of
utility" with laying hens by passing them on to other
chicken-free-rangers to either "put out to pasture" or "slaughter" on
their preferred terms. Our last handoff was to a young couple eager to
become "homesteaders" who were from the first two graduating years of
Antioch College (Ohio) reconstructed around a Permaculture Design Course
pattern after a few years of downtime. They were renting a property in
Nambe with a large existing chicken coop and were happy to give our
"girls" a few more years of egg production followed by a likely
"processing into meat" end... which they understood to be part of the
obligation that raising laying hens came with (that or the
out-to-pasture I mentioned). They "promised" that was their intention.
My first crew of eggers was 20ish years ago and ended after a year when
I took a "change of station" in Berkeley. We found a person in La
Cienega who already had a couple dozen, willing to integrate our scant
(2 of 12 died in youth) dozen into their existing laying flock. I
honestly don't know how they handled the "elderly chicken" problem. I
expect our current flock (just starting to lay) will become old-pets and
we will suffer their demise-by-old-age as we do other pets... but at
least for a few years they will process low-grade nutrients (vegetation
and insects) into high-grade (for us) nutrition as eggs.
Regarding Glen's article "challenging the 'paleo' diet narrative". I'm
sure their reports are generally accurate and in fact homo-this-n-that
have been including significant plant sources into our diets for much
longer than we might have suspected. Our Gorilla cousins at several
times our body mass and with significantly higher muscle tone live
almost entirely on low-grade vegetation. But the article presents
this as if ~1M years of hominid development across a very wide range of
ecosystems was monolithic? There are still near subsistence cultures
whose primary source of nourishment is animal protein (e.g. Aleuts,
Evenki/Ewenki/Sami)?
I'm a fan of the "myth of paleo" even though I'm mostly vegetarian. I
like the *idea* of living a feast/famine cycle and obtaining most of my
nutrition from fairly primary/raw sources. Of course, my modern
industrial embedding has me eating avocados grown on Mexican-Cartel
owned farms and almonds grown in the central valley of California on
river water diverted from the Colorado river basin. <sigh>.
FWIW the Avocado tree I nurtured for years in my sunroom died last
summer (neglect) after giving up only a few small stunted fruits in it's
lifetime. And the two "cold hardy" almonds I nurtured for several years
in the yard finally produced but turned out to be a (strangely closely
related) stone fruit (miniature yellow plums!). This year WAS a great
harvest of pinon in my area but being between two hip replacements
couldn't be bothered to go out and "collect the bounty"... market rate
is $30/lb these days... I think Chinese pine nuts go for $10/lb shelled?
Hell and handbaskets? Seems like it. And I'm the one who needs to
"get off the lawn!" all over the world, but I'm not that good at it.
I live in my gated community (fence to be payed for by MX of course) and
invite a few folks inside to cut my firewood and clean my (golden)
toilets, but other than that, I'd like them to stay in their place in
the (increasingly) inhospitable regions we've helped create for them
(deforested, desertificatied, monocropped, urban-blighted,
climate-modified)...
And yesterday we celebrated "Jan 6" while reflecting on the life and
times of Jimmy Carter who I helped to oust with my first vote because...
"he was a snowflake"!
Helps me ?forgive? all the young tech-bros who helped sweep the
Trumpster Fire back into the Whitehouse. I invited the Reagan-Bush
dynasty into my world (for decades) that way, who knows what this next
decade or two will look like (probably punctuated by the singularity?)
if I live that long.
- Steve (aka Helen Handbaskets)
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Archaeological study challenges 'paleo' diet narrative of ancient
hunter–gatherershttps://phys.org/news/2025-01-archaeological-paleo-diet-narrative-ancient.html
Renee' convinced me to eat fried chicken the other night. ... Well, OK. She just put it
in front of me and my omnivorous nature took over. Fine. It's fine. Everything's fine.
But it reminded me of the fitness influencers and their obsession with chicken and [ahem]
"protein". Then I noticed the notorious non-sequitur science communicator
Andrew Huberman is now platforming notorious motivated-reasoning through evolutionary
psychology guru Jordan Peterson. Ugh. And Jan 6 is now a holiday celebrating those morons
who broke into the Capitol. Am I just old? Or is the world actually going to hell in a
handbasket? Get off my lawn!
--
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