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

[PrairieChickens]

I'm sorry for your loss, and for the stupidity you had to endure.

 

[CarolinaHen]

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.

 

[Bogtown Chick]

What do you think about this letter? I think it is asinine. It's real. Some folks in our region received it and it was on my facebook feed from reliable sources.

 

[kingfrodo]

if it were me I would seek new insurance. years ago I had two English Mastiffs, my current insurance company said they were dropping us b/c they were vicious dogs.

Never mind that they were therapy dogs that went into nursing homes on a regular basis. I had letters from our trainer, the nursing homes, etc...no go. so, I called around and found another insurance company that was very happy to have my business.

the almighty dollar talks....

 

[aart]

Have seen this before, can't remember if it was here or another forum....maybe do a search on 'insurance' to learn from others.

ETA:That Stinks!

 

[Bogtown Chick]

Dumbest things People say about chickens: Your chickens attract children>>therefore they are a hazard and we won't insure you.

Is it just me or am I conspiracy theorist...but somebody's lining somebody else's pockets up on Capital hill. I really think this whole raising our own food thing scares the crap out of the food industry, their lobbyists, the politicians....etc...etc. They'll use whatever means possible.

It was shared by the Natural Chicken Keeping Facebook page and I traced the share directly to the OP of it. I think it's her relation. I'd have to read it again. Crazy. They haven't been dropped but they need to remove the "risk".

Sweet heaven. What is this world coming to?! It is so bizarre.

 

[aart]

Dumbest things People say about chickens: Your chickens attract children>>therefore they are a hazard and we won't insure you.

Is it just me or am I conspiracy theorist...but somebody's lining somebody else's pockets up on Capital hill. I really think this whole raising our own food thing scares the crap out of the food industry, their lobbyists, the politicians....etc...etc. They'll use whatever means possible.

It was shared by the Natural Chicken Keeping Facebook page and I traced the share directly to the OP of it. I think it's her relation. I'd have to read it again. Crazy. They haven't been dropped but they need to remove the "risk".

Sweet heaven. What is this world coming to?! It is so bizarre.

There's always a scapegoat to foot the bills...like smokers paying 3 times the amount for health insurance, when the obese don't have too.
Discrimination will always be alive and kicking some folks in the teeth as long as human beings exist.

 

[Blooie]

There's always a scapegoat to foot the bills...like smokers paying 3 times the amount for health insurance, when the obese don't have too.
Discrimination will always be alive and kicking some folks in the teeth as long as human beings exist.

You know the irony of the smokers paying increased premiums? Now, before I go further let me state that I am NOT out to politically antagonize anyone! So if you want to blast me in a reply, realize that I am not sticking my neck out looking for an axe, I'm just reporting. I am a smoker, but there's no point in handing me the lecture. There's not a thing you can say to me that I haven't heard a million times and even said to myself.

We checked out the health care site, looking to see what it could offer for our son and daughter-in-law, who are uninsured. There is a question about whether you smoke or not,(they don't) and if you check "yes" your premiums skyrocket. It doesn't ask what you smoke....just if you smoke. The Federal Government doesn't care what else you do - have Clem hold your beer while you try to jump your four-wheeler over a 50 foot cliff - but boy, you'd better not smoke cigarettes. It doesn't ask if you smoke meth, or crack, or pot - so smoking those things is apparently just fine. Only cigarettes. Now, I ain't always the brightest crayon in the box, but it seems to me that regardless of what the substance is, the delivery is the same. You light it, you inhale it, it goes into your lungs and replaces the oxygen that that breath would have provided and fills those lungs with chemicals. And it also seems to me that with all the warnings about the terrible effect of second hand smoke, especially to children, wouldn't you think someone would have looked into that too?

I'm not yaying or naying on the legalized pot issue. I just find it ironic that HR 499, which is a proposed resolution to decriminalize pot on the Federal level is followed by HR 501, which is the federal government's plan to impose taxes on said pot, and which gives the IRS the power to "make adjustments" to the tax as needed, while one segment of the population is denigrated, ostracized, and punished.

Okay, off my soapbox now.

 

[kingfrodo]

Blooie, have you and my husband been chatting??? you and he have about the same soap box. He smokes and it drives him crazy that he is taxed way more than most.

but hey, let's legalize pot!

 

[aart]

Quote: Singing to the choir, girl.
That question, I think-just did that form yesterday, says 'do you use tobacco products' then asks 'when did you last use tobacco products' wanting a date.
Tho I do see that the logic is valid in a sense...it's still discriminatory.

Don't get me started on the taxes.....taxation on bulk, roll your own tobacco was raised mega% about 2-3 years ago, tripling it's price.
Once they realized how many people were rolling their own to save money, they jacked up the tax to bring the price up to be close to ready rolls.
Like I said, smokers are a very easily segmented scapegoat...we are sick, terrible, evil people who should pay, pay, pay for our 'sins' and everybody else's who can't be so conveniently separated.