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It takes two to tango, and instead of blaming the "man", the "corparation", etc., why not blame us, the consumer for not caring.
Because most consumers are completely in the dark about all this stuff. They see pretty pictures of an old fashion farm on a carton of eggs and believe that...
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Crazy how that works, isn't it? I knew this in the back on my mind for years... I'd read a book when I was in 6th grade about factory farms. But I went right on eating fast food and whatnot... For some reason reading "The Omnivore's Dilemma" when it came out is what flipped a switch in...
I don't think it's a question of inability to care at that scale - Joel Salatin raises tens of thousands of birds and manages to care. The industrial model is just a poor production model, plain and simple, one that lends itself to not caring. It persists because it helps corporations, not...
About antibiotics - the antibiotics themselves aren't what is bad; I don't imagine they affect the meat much if at all. The problem is why they are given constant antibiotics: they pretty much live in a cloud of their own filth. They sleep in their own crap and there's fecal dust all over...