Posted on 12/12/2021 7:07:18 AM PST by deport
A coalition of California restaurants and grocery stores has filed a lawsuit to block implementation of a new farm animal welfare law....
Put simply, the law requires that breeding pigs, egg-laying chickens and veal calves be given enough space to stand and turn around. For pigs, that means they no longer can be kept in narrow "gestation crates" and must have 24 square feet (2.23 square meters) of usable space.
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Yep! And don't forget the beef.
States should absolutely be allowed to enact laws within their borders. If there is a spillover to other pathetically pro-animal abuse and unhealthily dependent states, so be it. We have a federal system.
That said, the unfortunate reality is that there are enough stories of bad meat and recalls - not to mention that the backstop for much of this is the govt - where our food overlords have fallen short of our God's demand that we be good stewards over the flora and fauna.
If we leave this up to the govt, maybe a few bad processors who aren't politically connected go dark but the others will get a statutory shield and animals (and consumers) suffer.
I personally believe strongly in private action. During the pandemic shortages, many people discovered local farmers AND the benefits of getting to know and see your food. It doesn't require becoming a crunchy granola leftist hippie...and on this part of life they may have a point.
Temple Grandin, the autistic advisor to the cattle processing industry whose insights revolutionized cattle processing and made it more efficient AND humane, says that we have an obligation to treat the animals properly before we process them. I think she's right, and if I have to pay extra for a trip to the farm AND I get to add 5-10 years to my life to avoid tainted bacon, sign me up.
Give them more space and there are other options for protecting the piglets.
Pig farms…mmm, mmm. Goes well with vineyards.
> Pigs are intelligent animals and keeping them in a space where they can’t turn around seems cruel. If I need to pay more for bacon, well, it IS an essential food! <
The more I think about it, the more I agree with you. G_d gave man dominion over animals. That would include, I think, the duty to act in a responsible manner. So I too would pay a bit more to have things done as that law requires. Just my opinion.
Breeding sows go to 500+ lbs.
Can we turn the Wokes into bacon?
“Maybe we should just eat insects.”
We already do that along with a rat crap and everything else.
“It’s just a pretext to ban pork.”
Not if the growing feral pig population has anything to say about it...
Sign says clearance to the 12-foot line
But the chickens was stacked to 13-nine
Keep him away from Alec Baldwin.
***Eventually eating meat will be criminalized,***
Reminds me of the short SI-FI story THE ULTIMATE CATALYST by John Taine(1939)
A world forced into vegetarianism has a small dictator in the Amazon who wants MEAT! So his resident scientist invents GREENBEEFOS! A vegetable that tastes like meat.
But there is a price to pay...
I thought frozen and processed food was exempt.
Meaning? You’re responding to a former farmer and pig owner here.
Same here. I watched Food Inc and the treatment of some of the animals was pretty bad. Guy running a hog operation said the hogs hadn’t bred naturally in decades. All artificial insemination. Not a terrible thing and they do it with race horses to make sure they get the output they’re wanting. The hogs though lived in a small plastic and metal crate for their whole lives and never get to see the light of day, never get to root for grubs, no mud baths. Not only is the breeding artificial, their entire existence is artificial. Just a step away from lab grown meat.
Chickens: I don’t even buy Purdue anymore. The breast meat is a big hunk of white rubber to me. I get a brand that comes in a blue wrapper, Mountainairre? I think it’s got mountain in the name. Says naturally raised whatever that means. Pretty small, 3-4lbs. I spatchcock and roast them. Super juicy and tender. Well worth the extra 30-50 cents per lb. Makes dinner for the four of us and then lunch or dinner for two of us for $5.00. Usually have it with yellow rice which is my own recipe and dirt cheap. We used to get Vigo but I decided to try and make a clone recipe. Not really a clone after tweaks but we like it.
Those Cornish Cross production birds also aren’t natural. Just little eating machines with zero chicken personality. They’ll eat until they can no longer stand due to the weight of their Dolly Parton breasts and then eat some more. Their underside gets raw from laying in their manure. Crowded as can be by that time too. The chicken farmers go in and pick up several dead birds every day. Purdue keeps those farmers deep in debt by requiring housing redesign every several years. They make $18k/yr but are a couple of hundred thousand dollars in debt all the time.
Same here.
>>Doable, but risky as they already have agricultural inspections at their state borders.
Just bring the bacon in through Mexico. No border inspections on THAT border.
Muy malo.
No hay cerdo para mi taco.
5.56mm
Are all of these insane things happening in California a coincidence? There are no coincidences. Is the goal to push even more people out of the state? What would a declining population do to real estate prices? Who would be waiting in the wings to take advantage of that situation?
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