Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[MaryJanet]

The main bus company in Bristol announced it was going to axe 1500 bus services due to lack of drivers; not to be confused with bus routes.

If they lifted working conditions and wages, presumably they'd be able to recruit more drivers and then make profit by running bus services.

Sounds like they want the bus company to die off.

Taxes. The river chickens were fascinated by the washing machine yesterday. By the way, @RoyalChick suggested I enter this photo for the caption contest. Winners are selected by number of likes. If you want to, click on the link below, then like the photo.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...oto-submission-thread-6.1544227/post-26327729

 

[pennyJo1960]

Good afternoon X Batts . This has me wondering where this world will be in 20 or 30 years.?
I have one hen she is a marans cross hatched here. She drives me nuts sleeping in a nest box encouraging others to also. Random birds can be tax please.

 

[Iluveggers]

Here is my tax for all the farm & food talk from earlier. Squeakers was loving the brussels sprout leaves I left out in the garden for them!

I picked up that rubber dog bowl today. All of the crumble they pecked out fell neatly into the bowl. I have it up on bricks to help keep the run litter out. It worked great, should eliminate waste!

 

[Sally PB]

^^What a great idea!

 

[BDutch]

I think you are right, even emotional vegetarians like my DD1 who doesn't want animals killed as opposed to those vegetarians who believe it is more healthy way to eat haven't eaten meat for so long the idea of meat from any source probably isn't appealing.

In the Netherlands vegetarian an vegan eat these plant based ‘meat’ and other easy to prepare burgers/sausages, quite a lot. It makes it easy to prepare food for a mixed group of eaters too. Standard meal is often: Potatoes, veggies + a hamburger or veggieburger. But there is minced ‘meat’ for a spaghetti sauce or ‘chicken’pieces for easy to prepare asian or mexican food too.
The taste is different from real meat. But in general they taste good. The lentils and beetroot burgers don’t taste like meat at all, but are very tastefull.

More and more people in NL choose to eat vegetarian or vegan, a couple of times a week. The veggie burgers make it easy to do so.

Why? Eating meat every day is one of the causes of the pollution. People in Netherlands often get astma because of the enormous amounts of air pollution around factory farms.

Today was in the news another large chicken farm was contaminated with bird flu. 233.000 chickens killed.
https://www.nu.nl/economie/6237201/...elgriep-in-limburg-233000-kippen-geruimd.html

Feeding people with more plants and less meat is way more healthy then going on the way we did. We can’t have farm animals that have a decent life for 8 billion people, do we? And all those humans deserve to live. Don’t they?

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[MaryJanet]

In the Netherlands vegetarian an vegan eat these plant based ‘meat’ and other easy to prepare burgers/sausages, quite a lot. It makes it easy to prepare food for a mixed group of eaters too. Standard meal is often: Potatoes, veggies + a hamburger or veggieburger. But there is minced ‘meat’ for a spaghetti sauce or ‘chicken’pieces for easy to prepare asian or mexican food too.
The taste is different from real meat. But in general they taste good. The lentils and beetroot burgers don’t taste like meat at all, but are very tastefull.

More and more people in NL choose to eat vegetarian or vegan, a couple of times a week. The veggie burgers make it easy to do so.

Why? Eating meat every day is one of the causes of the pollution. People in Netherlands often get astma because of the enormous amounts of air pollution around factory farms.

Today was in the news another large chicken farm was contaminated with bird flu. 233.000 chickens killed.
https://www.nu.nl/economie/6237201/...elgriep-in-limburg-233000-kippen-geruimd.html

Feeding people with more plants and less meat is way more healthy then going on the way we did. We can’t have farm animals that have a decent life for 8 billion people, do we? And all those humans deserve to live. Don’t they?

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I'm not sure what the national stats are for Australia, but I eat red meat once a month and white twice a week, tops.

I'm concerned about animal welfare. I couldn't care less about my own nutrition.

 

[micstrachan]

I'm not sure what the national stats are for Australia, but I eat red meat once a month and white twice a week, tops.

I'm concerned about animal welfare. I couldn't care less about my own nutrition.

I am concerned about animal welfare, too, and I don’t buy meat at all. If it is served, I will eat it, as I can’t bear for it to go to waste. However, I can no longer walk around a grocery store or warehouse store and not see all the dead animals, who probably lived horrific lives, on the shelves.

 

[Iluveggers]

When we want plant-based burgers, I make black-bean, sweet potato burgers with sauteed onions. They are reeeealy good and not processed (unless you count the canned black beans which I consider a 1-ingredient food…we try to avoid multiple ingredients in canned or boxed food).

They are easy to freeze & thaw too, so we can make a bunch ahead and just pop in the oven.

 

[Iluveggers]

, I can no longer walk around a grocery store or warehouse store and not see all the dead animals, who probably lived horrific lives, on the shelves.

Same. I don’t buy any meat from the grocery store. Only ethical local farmers we know that treat their animals with kindness and let them frolic in the outdoors when they are being raised.

 

[micstrachan]

Same. I don’t buy any meat from the grocery store. Only ethical local farmers we know that treat their animals with kindness and let them frolic in the outdoors when they are being raised.

I wish we had that here.