CindyinSD
All will be well, and that will be well is well.
I think you and Shad are on different planets. It appears from his later posts that what he’s really interested in is raising mostly feral chickens in order to service local boutique restauranteurs catering to a market consisting of (presumably fairly wealthy) diners willing to pay a premium price for a sustainable chicken dinner “reared” and taken in a semi-wild setting. I would argue that this wasn’t made entirely clear either in the topic title or in the OP, but maybe that’s partly my fault for not reading deeply enough.It super can when you look at real numbers. Certainly I get all my eggs for myself and two other households in my area from my flock of 9 right now with spares for hatching.
It's possible for me to raise all my chicken meat on my land too. It's just challenging. I almost pulled it off one year, we bought only about 4 chickens worth of meat that year from the store, but it was hard to keep up. Doing it in the fall keeps the neighbors happy but makes butchering very difficult because of the ice cold at the end of the grow out period. Doing it in the spring makes it smell terrible and upsets the neighbors. So we butcher in the fall when we do a meat chicken run but it's very challenging as a result. We'd do half every year but the CX producers won't let us order so few and the stores only have them in the spring.
I raise rabbits instead as my main on-site meat protein which are more practical for a smaller operation. But I would do chickens more if I was working with more land. As it is my back yard is 1/8th of an acre so it's not a postage stamp but it's not enough either.
Modern high tech AG says that it's about 1.5 acres of farmland (including cattle) per person when you buy from a store so that doesn't sound so bad. I feel like I could meet or exceed that on an intensively managed small scale and the land exists to do that and is in use for that purpose already. But I have 1/4 acre total, only half actually usable so it is what it is.
The land per person and the resources for every person to grow their own food or to eat from exclusively smallholdings exists in the USA. We just don't use it that way, even though we could with almost no changes to our diets. It would take a massive restructuring but every small step in the right direction works towards both that and bringing that idea to the broader public.
@Peepsi, it doesn't. I was plenty polite despite his leading off the whole topic with an insult and then he continued to not be. Then Shad himself told me I wasn't being blunt enough (and lamented how I couldn't be more blunt) so CLEARLY he doesn't want me sugar coating how bad his assumptions are.Additionally, I don't feel bad for calling out bad ideas with insulting conclusions as bad. Everyone has bad ideas sometimes, it doesn't mean the person who made them is bad. That's much more determined by how they handle it once they know it's indisputably bad.
Memes are a primary form of communication for younger generations and is directly humorous and an accurate expression of the moment. So I don't feel bad about any bit of it.
But I'd be happy to educate you on how younger generations communicate through pop culture and the integration of memes as an effective communication and highly nuanced language form for expression in a digital era sometime if you'd like. I know some people who wrote their thesis on it.
I found the OP to be (possibly intentionally) provocative and unclear as to its object. When I noted who had posted it, I overlooked this as I’ve often found Shad to be a bit... gruff, and kind of edgy—so I just ignore the perception of confrontationalism.
