Anyone here who won't eat cage eggs?!

[Atomic Ranch]

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A friend's 14 year-old son came by to see my chickens and asked, "do they sleep upside-down?". Seriously, I thought? What do kids think-- eggs grow on trees?

 

[al6517]

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A friend's 14 year-old son came by to see my chickens and asked, "do they sleep upside-down?". Seriously, I thought? What do kids think-- eggs grow on trees?

And this kind of education will only get worse LOL. Fortunately I live in a farm/ranch area and all young people are very well versed in the way's of farm animals so we don't get much of the urban city type, what came first the cow or the egg type inteligence.

 

[Pele]

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I sank about 400 dollars into building my chicken coop this spring so that I could raise chickens and get eggs that aren't filled with misery and death. I try to live by the idea that my life should not have made the world a worse place, but a better one. Otherwise I'm just a parasite. For me, it's not about the animals looking happy, but rather not supporting a system that completely lacks respect for what they are doing.

It's about giving your food the dignity and respect it deserves, and letting the animals enrich your life, not just sustain it. Some of us, such as people who raise their own food like yourself and myself, have room to criticize the industry all we want because we actually DO something to try to fix what we see as wrong. Commercial producers neither care about the animals, nor about the health of their customers. Their focus is on the dollar, and on hedging out honest farmers trying to support their families. If that means sticking animals in small boxes that don't let them move until gangrene claims their legs, then so be it.

I don't perpetuate that system, and I don't apologize about that. Or for griping about it. Someone needs to stand up for what's wrong, or it never gets changed.

 

[southerndesert]

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A friend's 14 year-old son came by to see my chickens and asked, "do they sleep upside-down?". Seriously, I thought? What do kids think-- eggs grow on trees?

And this kind of education will only get worse LOL. Fortunately I live in a farm/ranch area and all young people are very well versed in the way's of farm animals so we don't get much of the urban city type, what came first the cow or the egg type inteligence.

In most public schools unless your child in in FFA (if the school even still has FFA) there is almost no teaching of farming and how food is grown or raised!

If children are taught at all about growing a garden or raising livestock it is up to the parents....

Except is a few wonderfully secluded rural districts that feel this is REAL education....

Ya know if more folks begin getting back to their roots and raising their own food vegetable and meat there would be less and less need for cage eggs

But the shift seems to be more toward dependency than toward becoming less dependent on others these days and that is a tad scary at best for me....

 

[yankeedoodle300]

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[NanaLantana]

Wow, a lotta talk about food, how it's raised, and what people will eat. I just thank God every day that He sees fit to feed me at all! I did missionary work in Haiti - sometimes a family will not have any food for 5 days. Even the kids. They've learned how to pick certain weeds that will fill them up, and to make 'mud' cookies. You couldn't have 'free-range' chickens over there - they'd disappear in the night so somebody could eat. I always thank God for my food, and ask Him to please don't stop feeding me!!

 

[tsiecz]

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I sank about 400 dollars into building my chicken coop this spring so that I could raise chickens and get eggs that aren't filled with misery and death. I try to live by the idea that my life should not have made the world a worse place, but a better one. Otherwise I'm just a parasite. For me, it's not about the animals looking happy, but rather not supporting a system that completely lacks respect for what they are doing.

It's about giving your food the dignity and respect it deserves, and letting the animals enrich your life, not just sustain it. Some of us, such as people who raise their own food like yourself and myself, have room to criticize the industry all we want because we actually DO something to try to fix what we see as wrong. Commercial producers neither care about the animals, nor about the health of their customers. Their focus is on the dollar, and on hedging out honest farmers trying to support their families. If that means sticking animals in small boxes that don't let them move until gangrene claims their legs, then so be it.

I don't perpetuate that system, and I don't apologize about that. Or for griping about it. Someone needs to stand up for what's wrong, or it never gets changed.

Your absolutely correct. I just got chickens after watching the documentary " FOOD INC", a real must see for everyone. Its available at PBS. Its exactly like your telling it. I won't make a big difference myself but we all must keep spreading the word and let people really know what they are eating.Let your kids watch it, they will form there own opinion. Just get the movie and see how it effects your thinking after watching it.

 

[branston]

me neither! Wouldn't touch them!

 

[Fierlin1182]

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A friend's 14 year-old son came by to see my chickens and asked, "do they sleep upside-down?". Seriously, I thought? What do kids think-- eggs grow on trees?

That's so funny!
At least where I grew up (the city) we had a farm.
It was a pretty cramped farm but a farm nonetheless.

 

[al6517]

ray's two cents :

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A friend's 14 year-old son came by to see my chickens and asked, "do they sleep upside-down?". Seriously, I thought? What do kids think-- eggs grow on trees?

That's so funny!
At least where I grew up (the city) we had a farm.
It was a pretty cramped farm but a farm nonetheless.​

I think the trend/fad now has a new name for it, it's called urban farming and it consist of one hatchery rescue hen on the roof of your apartment building with one Organic cherry tomato plant in a 5 gal bucket. and they will soon take over the world,