Posted on 01/01/2015 10:28:11 AM PST by PROCON
If it improves the quality of the egg (I can’t stand those dull yellow yokes when in Great Britain you can get vibrantly colored yokes) I’d probably pay more.
The Torah is my authority.
I’m fascinated by your knowledge. Are you a farmer?
What more can the chickens tell us?
Eat more beef?
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Well said! Animals should certainly be raised and slaughtered in the most humane way possible.
Where in Queens do you live?
Here’s a link. But whether it’s good data or not is another question:
http://www.motherearthnews.com/real-food/free-range-eggs-zmaz07onzgoe.aspx#axzz3Nboe3Esz
I live on 15 acres in the Ozarks, have had cattle, horses, hogs, chickens for as long as I can remember.
Raised on the HIGH PLAINS, had my first hog killing when I was 4.
Worked in the Agricultural industry till I got into the steel working industry and then went to power plants.
Yes, I do know a lot about animal husbandry.
Some nutritionists believe that one of the reasons why so many people are obese these days is not because of a lack of activity, but that we have to eat more food because the food we do eat is lacking in nutrients.
I don’t think any reasonable person demands idealistic conditions. But it is also a reality that some in the food industries do treat animals without an ounce of compassion, not caring how the animal fares as long as they are always finding ways to save a buck.
I don’t personally expect pastoral conditions as those times have come and gone, but I also don’t want a cow raised in a cage that is only the smallest bit bigger than the cow itself.
What does that have to do with post 16?
Or . . . I can pay a higher price. I'll pee and moan with the rest over rising food prices when it's due to inflation, but higher pork prices to end this kind of "production" is one I would pay. I love the stuff, but that warehousing bit did a number on me.
Wife comes from a farming family so I'm not totally clueless.
A yellow yoke is made when marigold flowers are mixed with the feed to give them a yellow color.
For a really yellow yoke, often almost blood red, get eggs from a range hen where she has access to natural pasture!
Unfortunately I can’t produce eggs like that any more as too many predators are also in the area.
Ansel12 was questioning the assertion that high-production eggs were of low quality protein.
I was just stating one of the theories that does exist in the science of nutrition that due to modern practices of growing food, that food isn’t as nutritious today as it was in times past.
That is because they are not.
But people need to "feel" they are so they believe any nonsense the snake oil sells to them because it means that if they buy "cage free range vegan diet" eggs they are SO much more better then other people.
And ansel12 asked what that has to do with post 16?
Is it you agreeing with the assertion that production eggs are “garbage” and don’t have protein or food value as eggs?
Based on what?
In military survival classes, the head is bitten off of a live chicken, then those delicacies are removed and eaten.
I tend to agree that if less than ideal conditions are used to grow food, you will end up with food that is less than ideal.
That doesn’t mean that I think that we should throw everything out and start over, but check to see if we can’t be better at we do. I don’t think we were created to treat animals with absolutely no consideration whatsoever when we raise our food.
What does that have to do with post 16?
I was responding to your post. Your post seemed to say that you question the idea of whether modern agricultural practices have led to a falling quality of our food.
Some believe that is, in fact, the case.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/soil-depletion-and-nutrition-loss/
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