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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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.
Chickens smoking in bed.
Nothing like barbecued chicken with the feathers still on.
Just exactly how does a free range chicken farm catch fire and burn millions of chickens? Was it spontaneous combustion?
Seems to a common theme all these large processing plants burning up.
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Maybe those chickens should change over to vaping.
Thanks. You have filled in another of my blindspots. I had always thought “free range” was the modern version of the traditional image of chickens running around a (probably fenced) farmyard outside the coop, with plenty of room for all the birds to engage in performative chickenhood.
So “free range” means “big cages.” Good to know. I always tell people that “organic” is a fancy word to camouflage “grown in poop,” and that we have better ways to do fertilizers today. Same principle. Marketing camouflage.
one would think that, but with more “demand” since lack of “free range- one door one at end of large building” eggs, my guess is all egg prices will go up.
The competition or for the insurance claim?
all that chicken poop burns hot
You’re thinking pasture raised. The free range means they aren’t in a small cage.
Free range egg demand isn’t in a vacuum.
Old hens = chicken and dumplings.
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In my days growing up I couldn’t eat chicken of any preparation
except fried to a crisp. My dad kept around 400 layers and my mom
made chicken salad sandwiches as they were culled out over time.
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