Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[Perris]

I need to get my mealworm farm started again.

why/how did it stop?

 

[no fly zone]

They think Food comes from a store. They are horrified that I raise for meat and process myself.
I have friends that will not eat non commercial eggs. They are looking at that factory eggs are inspected and somehow better.

The Big Ag propaganda is effective. My amazing wife has taught me so much about food in the short time we've been married. I could never go back to eating how I did before.

 

[BDutch]

I think a lot of people in industrialized nations have little or no clue where their food comes from or how it is produced. For example, I have no idea how palm oil or soya is made, beyond glib platitudes about rainforest and all that lives in it being destroyed to create the palm or soya plantations in the first place. Price matters most for those who can least afford to choose.

I suppose that many people in The Netherlands do know where the food comes from for 2 reasons;

1. because we learn such atuff at school. But children don’t learn the harsh reality of industrial farming.
2. Because food is a huge export product in the Netherlands. Many people are involved in it one way or another . Like packiging, distributing, riding trucks , involved in law and regulations, import and export administration, technology, banking for farmers, feed production, etc.

2 weeks ago there was even a celebrity that made a point in a discussion panel on tv, saying the children see farm animals in books that are not reallistic at all. about cows in the meadow, pigs jn the mud etc. But only the organically kept animals are outside part of the day/year. He pleaded that all farm animals should have a life. And not just the organic ones. A discussion followed with a cruella type of character who was a lobbyist from the farmers industry. She probably had so much training to counter the good meanings of this celebrity, that he couldn’t make his point. The Cruella type was claiming the animals have a good life in the stables .

The video shows how food is produced in the Netherlands today (in Dutch but very visual).
The video starts after 2 comercials.
https://www.vpro.nl/programmas/tegenlicht/kijk/afleveringen/2022-2023/de-voedsel-bv.html
Info about the video:
VPRO The food BV
The small Netherlands is the second largest agricultural exporter in the world after the United States. Photographer and documentary maker Kadir van Lohuizen shows what that looks like. He gives a disconcerting glimpse into the kitchen of our food industry.
(Broadcasted Saturday 5 November online, Monday 7 November, 10:20 PM, vpro, npo 2)

 

[BDutch]

Tax for offtopic bla bla.
Clear pic of the difference in size of my bantam RIR and Dutch.

 

[Shadrach]

My chickens don't like pumpkin at all. Maybe it's strange food to them? Pumpkin has only been readily available in the Netherlands in more recent years.

The allotment crew aren't that keen on it.

 

[Shadrach]

The Big Ag propaganda is effective. My amazing wife has taught me so much about food in the short time we've been married. I could never go back to eating how I did before.

I'm a country boy. I spent my youth on my uncles farm. My uncle was one of the first farms I knew of to keep battery chickens, thousands. He also kept free rangers for his and his families eggs. He was rather fond of his free rangers.
Even at that age I differentiated between chickens and the creatures in the battery barns.
I've cooked from the time I left home. I'm not good at it but I do it.

What sort of diet did you have before you met your wife.

 

[no fly zone]

I'm a country boy. I spent my youth on my uncles farm. My uncle was one of the first farms I knew of to keep battery chickens, thousands. He also kept free rangers for his and his families eggs. He was rather fond of his free rangers.
Even at that age I differentiated between chickens and the creatures in the battery barns.
I've cooked from the time I left home. I'm not good at it but I do it.

What sort of diet did you have before you met your wife.

I ate a lot of rotisserie chicken and rice. The chicken was battery stuff, as I was ignorant to that whole side of agriculture at the time. I thought the labelling of foods as "organic" was just a way to get stupid ppl to pay more money. Turns out i was the dummy.

I did largely avoid deep fried foods though. Offset by quite a sweet tooth though. Ice cream was my weakness.

Now i eat much healthier stuff. Dropped 65 lbs as a result.

 

[Shadrach]

I ate a lot of rotisserie chicken and rice. The chicken was battery stuff, as I was ignorant to that whole side of agriculture at the time. I thought the labelling of foods as "organic" was just a way to get stupid ppl to pay more money. Turns out i was the dummy.

I did largely avoid deep fried foods though. Offset by quite a sweet tooth though. Ice cream was my weakness.

Now i eat much healthier stuff. Dropped 65 lbs as a result.

That's a lot of weight to lose.
I have that same sweet tooth but I don't put on weight easily.
What to buy here in the UK I have yet to sort out. I eat a lot of fish but more often than not I haven't bought organic vegetables and fruit.
I don't eat much meat.

 

[Shadrach]

Dry again today.
Safe feeding zone.

 

[Perris]

is Matilda still a bit under the weather? She looks very white and fluffy in her new feathers but is her face a little puffy?
The legbar looks very cross, though I'm sure that's completely beyond her control