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  1. cassie

    Rantings to stop eating Free Range eggs~ please respond !

    Just a comment here. I don't like the idea of battery chickens either, but I wonder if it is really as bad for the chickens as we think it is. My reasoning is this. Stressed out animals do not produce well and those hens seem to lay very well indeed. Personally, I think living in an...
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    Rantings to stop eating Free Range eggs~ please respond !

    I have found these arguments on the amount of grain or water or whatever to produce livestock to be a little silly. Computations on paper are not what actually happens in the real world. Much of the land used for raising beef is not suitable for anything else, and a lot of the feeds fed to...
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    Rantings to stop eating Free Range eggs~ please respond !

    Bacon comes from regular market hogs. Pigs are usually slaughtered when they reach market weight, which if memory serves, is between about 200 and 250 pounds or so. Pigs can be slaughtered at any age. There is quite a market for 90 to 100 pound pigs in some areas. They end up as whole hog...
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    Rantings to stop eating Free Range eggs~ please respond !

    I haven't figured that one out either. Also, every time a person takes a shower, does laundry, or sweeps or vaccums the floors and upholstery, they are killing or disturbing myriads of small creatures that inhabit their person and their immediate environment. What about the rights of those...
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    Rantings to stop eating Free Range eggs~ please respond !

    Animal Sanctuary, like most organizations of that ilk, thrives on sensationalism and half truths. There is no incident of animal mistreatment, real or imagined, that they cannot blow completely out of proportion. An acquaintance of mine who has a largish commercial goat dairy ended up in real...
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