Cruelty in factory farming

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This goes back to my Reagon thing. Why are we trying to get so big? What is the motivation? Was it always there, or did deregulation make it possible?

People respond to incentives and their responses have consequences. I think it comes down to having people in power that cannot think through the ramifications of their policies because they neither understand, nor care to understand, that simple truth.

 

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You should care about the quality of BACON. I'm tired of over paying for decent bacon. They can only charge me so much because there are so few farmers producing it. I like bacon fat but cheap bacon is all fat.

For what it's worth I make my own bacon.

 

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For what it's worth I make my own bacon.

If you send me some I'll send you a thank you letter.

 

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People respond to incentives and their responses have consequences. I think it comes down to having people in power that cannot think through the ramifications of their policies because they neither understand, nor care to understand, that simple truth.

I think nails it on the head. We have failed lawyers and academics as politicians, and they don't have any real world experience and they just don't understand what their ideas do in a real world with real, selfish (not necessarily a bad thing), hard working people. Not everyone acts in the country's best interest, and I don't think they should have to either.

 

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I must be a grade "A" ******* because I don't care how my future food is treated. I'm trying to care, I just can't.

Not at all. It's what makes this country great.

 

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I don't think that. I do think everyone should know this, but if you choose to use meat/milk/eggs anyhow, no big deal.

Interesting response. Do you think eating eggs from one of these places is the same as eating a free range chicken egg?

 

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What not enough people realize is how the animals you eat are treated and what they are fed affects your own health drastically.

You are what you eat eats.

I buy all of my meat in bulk from a local family farm.

ditto

 

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Green...
This history goes back waaaaaaay further than Reagan and his policies. Check out the book Nature's Metropolis for a good history of the beef industry. The whole book is mind-blowing. It's kind of a history of US capitalism. Its focus is on the developmental history of Chicago.

 

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There is simply no going back once you start buying local, free-range meat (which happens to be organic in my case).


Tastes ****ing amazing.

 

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If you send me some I'll send you a thank you letter.

I'll let you know the next time I make some. Probably in the spring as it is hard to regulate the temp on my weber as cold as it is.

 

[MVP]

There is simply no going back once you start buying local, free-range meat (which happens to be organic in my case).


Tastes ****ing amazing.

I concur, Alberta beef rocks!

 

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Interesting response. Do you think eating eggs from one of these places is the same as eating a free range chicken egg?

I have not heard an argument where such a distinction can be made objectively. There are so many factors that weigh in here. For example, most of these factory chickens would not have lived without factory farming. So, it's important to know what goes into making your food, but that doesn't imply any judgment about what you do once you know. I'm not going to stop buying factory-farm eggs, but if there is an agricultural reform bill I can vote for, I will vote for it.