Posted on 06/01/2024 1:26:33 AM PDT by Sam77
A massive fire broke out at Farina Farms Inc. in Marion County, Illinois, one of the largest free-range egg facilities in the U.S., resulting in the deaths of millions of chickens.
The fire began around 6:30 p.m. along Highway 37 before rapidly escalating into a 5-alarm fire, which required five different fire departments from surrounding areas to tackle the blaze, WAND TV reported.
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Making the way for cricket and maggot farms.
Here comes $8/dozen.
What Farina Farms doink?
Democrats and their illegal alien allies going after our food supply.
Anyone know where the local Antifa or maybe PETA supporters are?
Just bought 3 new Speckled Sussex hens. Good timing, our old girls are just about done laying - now they’re just manure producers....
Yes, they are.
Another in a series of attacks on our food supply. Plus the Avian Flu.
Seems to a common theme all these large processing plants burning up.
Part of the plan..
Old hens = chicken and dumplings.
My guess is that "free range" chicken egg prices will go up. Regular (caged) chicken egg prices will likely not be affected.
I see prices of hard boiled eggs going down in the short term
In a perfect world, sure.
Our special needs daughter names them all, so they are destined for a natural death and subsequent burial.
Oviously, in a SHTF event, chicken and dumplings they will be.
BBQ?
All right: a serious question. I thought the whole idea of “free range” chickens was that the birds are not confined to small cages. But how tightly are they confined? Are small cages replaced by small enclosures? How much space per bird? How many birds per enclosure? For so many chickens to be killed in a fire, they must have been trapped in buildings — so does “free range” mean a million chickens roaming “freely” in a big (and hopefully well ventilated) shed?
Sabotage? How many egg farms have been torched?
Link:
https://www.foodnetwork.com/healthyeats/healthy-tips/2019/08/pasture-raised-eggs
Egg Terminology
Let’s start with the basics. You can find caged, cage-free and free-range on store shelves and here’s a rundown of those terms.
Caged Eggs: About 90% of eggs in the U.S. come from caged hens. The birds are confined to cages for their egg-laying lives and are given 67 square inches each. They eat a corn or soy diet.
Cage-Free Eggs: These birds have more room than caged hens, as they are each provided with less than 1 square foot. They are confined to the barns and eat a diet of corn or soy.
Free-Range Eggs: These hens are allotted less than 2 square feet per hen which is more than caged and cage-free hens, but don’t go outdoors too often. They are usually fed a corn or soy based diet.
So What Is Pasture-Raised?
These hens are allotted at least 108 square feet per hen. They eat a combination of carefully balanced supplemental feed and whatever they can find in the dirt when they go outdoors including grass, worms and bugs. They are able to leave the barns early in the morning and are called back before nightfall.
Free Range implies something it’s not. Actual Free Range would be the 15 or so chickens my grandparents had on their four-acre property, where the chickens were set free every morning to forage about for bugs, worms, lizards, etc. Everybody came home as sundown to roost, and to lay the best eggs I’ve ever tasted.
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