There are rules and there are exception to them, norms and deviants
....always, and it's not always clear which are which.
But to get an idea what a norm really is, you have to go further than TV
sensationalism or some reactionary group with an axe to grind.
.
A deviant gets a lot more coverage.
better than that....in *some* cases we aren't.
If that N Cali chicken house story wasn't an exception..that could make
[was?] NC chicken central a fact [it has been in decline for a while now]
where many good farmers were squeezed out of the market by a few uncaring
ones....countered by another trend, perhaps triggered by reactionary
sensationalism distortions of reality.
Small Farms that have going fallow by pressure from agribiz are starting
to use that empty space for "free range" and bringing the price down and
availability up with the demand for it.
Free range chicken can be found in regular stores now..maybe not
"organic" and a chicken WANTS a coop and close quarters come sundown.
Note that they don't spread out much even when in the open.
My place used to be a turkey farm. There were no traces of a building on
it, only an old rusty feeder and 100s of yards fence wire under the tree
leaves.
With land prices backing down to reality...that could be coming back as
more efficient than a factory.
Behind THAT , I have eaten wild chicken in abandoned farm country [a
lonesome rarity without a flock ] and it took a couple of hours to do and
made my jaws really tired.
I swear they had "Uniroyal" tattooed under the feathers. "Factory
farmed", by Momma Nature on a Bob Cats fitness program where most didn't
make it.
Momma is not "kind" either.
BTW A woodchuck tastes like beef .....and might take just as long to eat
as a whole feed lot steer.
People used to be that tough...before WE came to be factory farmed, cooped
up in traffic jambs and high rise togetherments, pecking each others eyes
out over differing viewpoints when none of us have actually seen much at
all other than what was shown and told. [Being 'led' around....to
'believe' the various and competing high priesthoods ]
People and chickens have a lot in common.
Sooner or later, *everything*... is food. [And a chicken or a pig'l eat
anything including each other. ]
Oh yea. Exceptions.
A chicken won't eat a rattlesnake, not even a dead one without a head or
rattle....but I will and so will a pig.
Weird little tidbit I found in the woods:
Crows have a sport I call Owl Pecking...drives em crazy...won't let em
sleep all day.
People believe that crows are afraid of owls and sell big plastic ones to
each other as scare crows...what a laugh.
Ode
At 03:49 PM 4/26/2009 +0100, you wrote:
You can't get away from pictures shown on live television though Ode, and
I have seen this when Bernard Matthews turkeys were all killed in case
they had bird 'flu. I know that a lot of farmers look after their
livestock, but I also know a lot that don't. I personally know of a small
farmer that has been done on at least 35 counts of cruelty to his
animals. It goes on, and I know that animals are cruel to one another:
that's nature, and they *are* animals. I would have thought that we
should be better than that though, but in a lot of cases, we aren't. Dee
-------Original Message-------
From: <mailto:[email protected]>Ode Coyote
Date: 04/26/09 14:25:16
To: <mailto:[email protected]>[email protected]
Subject: Re: CS>the corpse thread...OT
Compassion in World Farming has an agenda and will present it's
literature as though it were the average 'norm'
Those IN the industry and "know" their fellows and neighbors have a
different POV.
NC is [was?] world chicken central and the houses are tight, but quite well
ventilated and not "packed"..and I've never heard of any de-beaking their
birds or lopping off feet.
I've never met a chicken or turkey farmer that didn't care about his birds.
Ode
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