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

[GimmeCake]

I've heard that before. I don't think I would make it at your institution though. My sister is a vegetarian and when she comes to visit, I forego meat and fish and eat what she does. After a week or so, I get to feeling very ill. Seriously. I don't necessarily crave meat; it's just without it I get sick. When she asks me what is wrong, I simply tell her eating all that healthy food isn't good for a person. Apparently it isn't for me. On the other hand, after being a vegetarian for years my sister ate a small amount of roast beef at a dinner party to be polite and it made her very sick.

Non-meat product aren't really "healthy food". Sweetened corn flakes aren't very healthy. Properly made meat is actually very healthy. Eating a big mac though.... same thing as the corn flakes.

Other then that, I'd imagine going without meat for a long time then all of a sudden eating it would make you sick. So would eating a meal meant for vegetarians (generally, 100% vegetarian meals contain things other then just vegetables and fruits; generally some strange stuff most people wouldn't be eating) if you've eaten meat for a long period of time (or your whole life).

 

[jc12551]

Non-meat product aren't really "healthy food". Sweetened corn flakes aren't very healthy. Properly made meat is actually very healthy. Eating a big mac though.... same thing as the corn flakes.

Other then that, I'd imagine going without meat for a long time then all of a sudden eating it would make you sick. So would eating a meal meant for vegetarians (generally, 100% vegetarian meals contain things other then just vegetables and fruits; generally some strange stuff most people wouldn't be eating) if you've eaten meat for a long period of time (or your whole life).

I agree! I know so many vegetarians who talk about how healthy the diet is and then eat this crappy fake meat stuff that is full of chemicals and additives. I don't eat any thing like that if I can help it. I have a soy protein sensitivity so most of that fake stuff is out anyway. I prefer fruits, vegetables, grains, and nuts. And I prefer to eat them as close to non-processed as I can. Occasionally I do eat a hamburger, a steak, or a roast and when I do I buy it from a local beef seller. My husband is a life long vegetarian and when he had a heart attack at 42 the doctor said that if he had eaten the typical American diet his entire life he wouldn't have made it to 35. Heart disease and diabetes along with super early deaths due to them are rampant in his family. So his parents made a life changing decision some 40 plus years ago. Of course, being a Seventh-day Adventist makes it easier to be vegetarian because that is one thing our denomination promotes.

Back to chickens: I had another one of those, "I don't want white or green eggs. I want country eggs." customers this morning. I guess my white and green egg layers are city chickens????

Along with one of my usual customers who called me and asked if she could get a dozen. I wasn't home so she helped herself and left the money in a flower pot. She is a neighbor who takes care of my chickens when I am away so she knew all the nooks and crannies that my chickens hide them in! lol

 

[jc12551]

I think the worst one was last night at a town council meeting. One of the guys on the council had driven by and had seen our coop setup. He wanted to know if he was gonna get some eggs. I said, "Sure. Should be plenty." Then I asked if anyone else wanted eggs when the girls start laying. Everyone there but one said they did......the holdout said he didn't eggs, store bought or otherwise. He said, "Won't touch 'em. They're chicken abortions." Eeewwww

Please tell me it wasn't a council member!

 

[7 Biddies]

Because of trying to adopt a healthier lifestyle and growing much of my own produce, I eat less meat and more fruits/veggies than I formerly did. In fact, I try to fit in a couple of meatless days every week. Although I still eat meat without any ill effects, I find I can no longer eat very much of it at one time. More than a few bites of steak, for instance, feels like lead in my stomach and takes ages for me to digest. I'm sure some of it is age, but I'm also pretty sure it's what your body adapts to.

Most western cultures eat much less meat than Americans do, and most are healthier, too.

"According to data from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Americans ate an average of 279.1 pounds of meat per person in 2005—154.1 pounds more than the United States Department of Agriculture's (USDA) recommended annual maximum of 125 pounds from the entire protein group, which includes meat, eggs, soy products, nuts, and seeds. According to the FAO, the United States had the third largest per capita meat consumption (behind Luxembourg #1 and Hong Kong #2) out of 171 countries in 2005".

 

[7 Biddies]

... one of my usual customers who called me and asked if she could get a dozen. I wasn't home so she helped herself and left the money in a flower pot. She is a neighbor who takes care of my chickens when I am away so she knew all the nooks and crannies that my chickens hide them in! lol

This is one of the things I love about country living; we still have honor markets. Gotta love it!

 

[oldrooster]

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In my area most store bought eggs are white and I guess the green ones are moldy store bought ones in their mind. they want granny's or great aunt so and so's eggs from her DP flock.

 

[Blooie]

Please tell me it wasn't a council member!

Okay, I'll tell you it wasn't a council member.

(Actually it wasn't, but I couldn't resist the straight line!)

 

[sepaditty1]

This is one of the things I love about country living; we still have honor markets.  Gotta love it!  e

The first time I brought my husband home to meet the family was in the height of corn season. He couldn't believe that the farmer would load the back of his pickup with corn & leave it parked on the side of the road. There was a sign, "Corn $3 dozen." And there was a coffee can.

Totally blew him away. Iasked if he thought someone would steaal the coffee can. He actually couldn't believe no one stole the truck!

Give me country life any day!

 

[ChickenCanoe]

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In my area most store bought eggs are white and I guess the green ones are moldy store bought ones in their mind. they want granny's or great aunt so and so's eggs from her DP flock.
I brought multi colored (natural eggs) to an Easter event at the in-laws. I told them I colored the eggs. It took them a while to figure out that they hadn't been dyed. There were all shades of brown, plum, intense maroon, green and blue. My wife's niece asked if the green ones were safe to eat because they looked moldy.

The first time I brought my husband home to meet the family was in the height of corn season. He couldn't believe that the farmer would load the back of his pickup with corn & leave it parked on the side of the road. There was a sign, "Corn $3 dozen." And there was a coffee can.

Totally blew him away. Iasked if he thought someone would steaal the coffee can. He actually couldn't believe no one stole the truck!

Give me country life any day!

I worked days and had a huge 1 acre garden when my wife was home pregnant. I put out a harvest table every morning with a scale, paper bags and a cigar box with prices.
My wife would go out after dawn, pick veggies, put them on the table and go back into the air conditioning. (it was an extremely hot summer)
When I came home each day, I would collect the money, put the unsold veggies and the table away.
One day I came home and the cigar box was empty. While I was cleaning up, I pondered the fact that I figured I eventually would get ripped off. When I picked up the cigar box, all the money was under it. I imagine someone was appalled there was so much money in plain sight. I never once got ripped off. That was in the suburbs of St. Louis with about a 50/50 mix of races.

 

[winteree]

I brought multi colored (natural eggs) to an Easter event at the in-laws. I told them I colored the eggs. It took them a while to figure out that they hadn't been dyed. There were all shades of brown, plum, intense maroon, green and blue. My wife's niece asked if the green ones were safe to eat because they looked moldy.


I worked days and had a huge 1 acre garden when my wife was home pregnant. I put out a harvest table every morning with a scale, paper bags and a cigar box with prices.
My wife would go out after dawn, pick veggies, put them on the table and go back into the air conditioning. (it was an extremely hot summer)
When I came home each day, I would collect the money, put the unsold veggies and the table away.
One day I came home and the cigar box was empty. While I was cleaning up, I pondered the fact that I figured I eventually would get ripped off. When I picked up the cigar box, all the money was under it. I imagine someone was appalled there was so much money in plain sight. I never once got ripped off. That was in the suburbs of St. Louis with about a 50/50 mix of races.

yup you couldn't do anything like that here we are the only house on our block that hasn't been robbed not counting the stuff outside of the house (I'm up to bike #8 because of walmarts "unpick-able" bike locks). We had a couple of attempts over the years complete with dog poisonings but thanks to my dad's VERY vocal fits in the mornings, my view on weapons and two large cattle healers no ones got the nerve