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I saw that thread, and read part of it. I stopped reading after a bit though.
This is partly why I am trying to get my own flocks going so I can hatch out my own birds, too - for meat as well as eggs. Not that I wouldn't join the fight against this, but I figure I'd be better prepared to sustain my own flocks if I have what I want to have now - and can get what I need locally.
With all the oogy boogy about the bird flu coming up again, I wouldn't doubt that it might go further than a lot of folks think - they would be willing to stop shipping birds and eggs just to "save us" from something that doesn't exist in the US at this time.
Add to that the article in the current Mother Earth News about how factory farms are causing antibiotic resistance and disease, and our food supply might be in more danger than we think. In the politician's mind farm = farm, whether it is a backyard operation or a huge factory farm.
It just makes me want to hole up down here on the farm and hide from the rest of the world, some days. (well, maybe more often than "some"
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When people are trying their best to go back to self sufficiency, and smaller farming practices - the last thing they should do is to stop shipments of birds and eggs. It is the smaller farm practices that will stop the overuse of antibiotics and the disease laden practices of the huge farms.
They'd do better to promote the backyard farm practices and limit the use and availablity of so many antibiotics and other medications that are being used to "put on more weight" or "produce more eggs", and stop trying to give the public what they think the public wants.
Even on this forum - if someone (anyone) starts a thread on dual purpose birds for meat - they get condescending remarks from over half the people who answer the thread - telling them to "just buy Cornish Cross", and if they don't then "they won't get what they see in the stores". And it is not just "members" who say these things. Everyone is so sure that they know what you REALLY meant to ask for, that they ignore your question - and they tell you what you REALLY want to do - not what you were researching, and planning in the first place.
That is why I no longer start threads (and rarely answer threads) when someone mentions dual purpose birds for meat production on here. I learned my lesson. I have spoken with others in PM who have learned the hard way, also, not to ask the "forbidden questions".
I went off on another path there ... sorry
meri
I saw that thread, and read part of it. I stopped reading after a bit though.
This is partly why I am trying to get my own flocks going so I can hatch out my own birds, too - for meat as well as eggs. Not that I wouldn't join the fight against this, but I figure I'd be better prepared to sustain my own flocks if I have what I want to have now - and can get what I need locally.
With all the oogy boogy about the bird flu coming up again, I wouldn't doubt that it might go further than a lot of folks think - they would be willing to stop shipping birds and eggs just to "save us" from something that doesn't exist in the US at this time.
Add to that the article in the current Mother Earth News about how factory farms are causing antibiotic resistance and disease, and our food supply might be in more danger than we think. In the politician's mind farm = farm, whether it is a backyard operation or a huge factory farm.
It just makes me want to hole up down here on the farm and hide from the rest of the world, some days. (well, maybe more often than "some"
When people are trying their best to go back to self sufficiency, and smaller farming practices - the last thing they should do is to stop shipments of birds and eggs. It is the smaller farm practices that will stop the overuse of antibiotics and the disease laden practices of the huge farms.
They'd do better to promote the backyard farm practices and limit the use and availablity of so many antibiotics and other medications that are being used to "put on more weight" or "produce more eggs", and stop trying to give the public what they think the public wants.
Even on this forum - if someone (anyone) starts a thread on dual purpose birds for meat - they get condescending remarks from over half the people who answer the thread - telling them to "just buy Cornish Cross", and if they don't then "they won't get what they see in the stores". And it is not just "members" who say these things. Everyone is so sure that they know what you REALLY meant to ask for, that they ignore your question - and they tell you what you REALLY want to do - not what you were researching, and planning in the first place.
That is why I no longer start threads (and rarely answer threads) when someone mentions dual purpose birds for meat production on here. I learned my lesson. I have spoken with others in PM who have learned the hard way, also, not to ask the "forbidden questions".
I went off on another path there ... sorry
meri
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