Dumbest Things People Have Said About Your Chickens/Eggs/Meat

[PrairieChickens]

In the end, the sanitary people will be hungry.

Factory farms are being pushed to greater and greater limits, and are unsustainable. Not only do they depend on unrealistic economic models sustained by government subsidies, they produce numerous hazardous by-products, not the least of which being drug-resistant bacteria that poses a severe health risk to humans and animals. The "sanitary" existence most people enjoy is only possible because of these super-concentrated, unsustainable factory farms, and when they inevitably reach a point where they can no longer support the population, the pendulum will HAVE to swing the other way--people will HAVE to start being involved in the production of their own food in sustainable ways or they will starve.

The whole point of doing what we do is to exercise a more sustainable way of living, because the way our food is being produced commercially is not sustainable--this means it will eventually end. Maybe the antibiotics will stop working. Maybe the feed will stop being cheap. Maybe the hazards of keeping so many animals so close together will finally outweigh the benefits. Whatever the reason, "sanitary" will inevitably lose out to "sustainable."

When people and animals are being injured and killed because the feces from the livestock reaches critical mass and spontaneously explodes, there is a critical problem with the system and it is fundamentally unable to continue indefinitely.

 

[GD91]

Do you all think it will be more sustainable to give families larger gardens to grow their own household food & reduce work hours, since families could spend less money with good practices? Just an idea.

The only time it would be an issue is if there is a disease outbreak.

I had a visit from a colored lady interested in buying chicks a few weeks ago. She migrated to the UK as a child.

Her: "When I was a child, every household in Liverpool had chickens. It didn't matter how much money you had, everybody had chickens in their garden where I lived.
I remember my father made me eat my first chicken. He waved it in front of me & said "You eat the chicken, no? If you were back home, you would eat the chicken! You must eat the chicken & respect the chicken.""

And she did, she told me, & she was very proud of that since she was just a child at the time.

She told me that she did not like the way things are now. She is 37 years old, so not exactly an old timer set in their ways.

She really was a great laugh with the way she described her life & beliefs

I sent her away with the promise of first choice on this years chicks.

 

[PrairieChickens]

Yeah, it's really not that long ago most people--not all, but most--had a rudimentary knowledge of how to produce their own food. At the very least, they had a vegetable garden, or a small coop of chickens. Now everything is produced in a mysterious, distant factory farm, and is processed beyond recognition by the time it gets to us. If we DO purchase raw ingredients like meat or fish, we're instructed to cook it to a crisp to kill all the nasty microorganisms that are probably living in it due to the filthy conditions on the factory farms and in the slaughter houses.

I help teach a gardening class for a local after school program. Even in this rural community, a lot of people just don't know anymore how to grow their own food.

 

[Alia]

In the end, the sanitary people will be hungry.

Factory farms are being pushed to greater and greater limits, and are unsustainable. Not only do they depend on unrealistic economic models sustained by government subsidies, they produce numerous hazardous by-products, not the least of which being drug-resistant bacteria that poses a severe health risk to humans and animals. The "sanitary" existence most people enjoy is only possible because of these super-concentrated, unsustainable factory farms, and when they inevitably reach a point where they can no longer support the population, the pendulum will HAVE to swing the other way--people will HAVE to start being involved in the production of their own food in sustainable ways or they will starve.

The whole point of doing what we do is to exercise a more sustainable way of living, because the way our food is being produced commercially is not sustainable--this means it will eventually end. Maybe the antibiotics will stop working. Maybe the feed will stop being cheap. Maybe the hazards of keeping so many animals so close together will finally outweigh the benefits. Whatever the reason, "sanitary" will inevitably lose out to "sustainable."

When people and animals are being injured and killed because the feces from the livestock reaches critical mass and spontaneously explodes, there is a critical problem with the system and it is fundamentally unable to continue indefinitely.

I honestly hope so. I'm just not a positive person and however likely that is, and however true it is that small populations of backyard chickens don't create superbugs, I don't see the huge chicken factories ruining themselves at any point before they ruin us.

It actually happened to me already. They didn't take my chickens, but they took my grapefruit tree. I loved that tree and it was in my family for 50 years. Where I used to live there was a citrus canker scare, and they made all these laws that they can come in and check your trees for canker, and if they have it, chop them down. The city people were out there checking that tree constantly. They never found anything. At last they finally said that because the tree was old and therefore susceptible to canker, they could take it. They chopped down my tree. When the canker appeared in the big industrial citrus groves, they just repealed all the laws.

 

[PrairieChickens]

Yes, and unfortunately, stories like yours are happening all over the country. The government seems hellbent to quash any kind of small-scale farming and favor massive, factory farms instead. IF they do "ruin us" before they ruin themselves, it won't stop them from inevitably failing, but it will remove the only thing that could save things here when they do.

It will be the folks who operate under the radar, operate "illegally", and break the rules who end up saving us at that point, but I really hope it doesn't come to that.

 

[PrairieChickens]

It's worth pointing out that the transition back towards small-scale sustainable farming has already begun, despite government and corporate resistance. Backyard chicken farming has increased nationwide at a rapid pace. More and more people are trying their hands at vegetable or herb gardening, and those who lack the space or skill are seeking out local farmer's markets.

Of course, the government has retaliated by wrapping farmer's markets in a web of red tape and regulations, hindering small-scale producers and preventing them from participating, but they can only slow the trend... they can't stop it entirely.

 

[Buffygirl]

I was talking to my friend about chickens, when some random person walks up and says, "So the eggs you have can hatch babies? And you EAT them???" I replied with, "Well it's not as if you crack open the egg and there's a fully developed chick inside. It's just a little spot on the yolk, you wouldn't know the difference." The girl looks at me like I'm some sort of monster and says, "THAT IS SOOOO SAD!!!"


I really wonder what they would have thought of me if I told them that I was friends with most of my meat. If you ask most people where their eggs, meat, etc. come from? "The store."

I knew from the time I was 3 years old that "When cows die, they go in the freezer."

 

[Chickens R Us]

Today at work a friend and I were talking about different meat chickens. She doesn't want to do the Cornish Crosses this year she wanted to try the red Rangers. I told her that I just butcher my extra roosters from my spring hatch. Another person was listening to us and asked me. What do roosters taste like? Turkey?? I calmly replied no they taste like chicken. I was dying inside trying not to laugh.

 

[Cluckysnap123]

Ugh. I don't eat eggs. Or meat. But anyway, the other day before the hawk killed all my chickens, a woman and a daughter who looked to be about 8 came over, and Queenie (my now deceased beloved hen) came over to the girl and the girl reached down to pet her and the mom says,"DONT TOUCH THE CHICKEN ITS GERMY AND POOPY ITS POISON!!"

 

[yinepu]

Ugh. I don't eat eggs. Or meat. But anyway, the other day before the hawk killed all my chickens, a woman and a daughter who looked to be about 8 came over, and Queenie (my now deceased beloved hen) came over to the girl and the girl reached down to pet her and the mom says,"DONT TOUCH THE CHICKEN ITS GERMY AND POOPY ITS POISON!!"

I would have replied...
"please don't touch my chickens.. i have no idea where you have been and I would hate for you to give them a disease"