Posted on 04/19/2025 10:16:23 PM PDT by Red Badger
It’s called “lacto-ovo-vegetarian” They eat eggs and milk because the critter is not harmed by the production of the foodstuff.
Vegans are a whole other can of worms...
The only reason farm animals have a chance at life at all is because they are tasty when we eat them.
That is their sole purpose.
There is no reason to either maltreat or deify them. They are work critters, here at our begging and disposal.
And they float, making them very popular for tropical rice paddy bug patrol. Domesticated ducks can still fly enough to evade predators. Unlike most creatures, they DON'T taste like chicken!
Another TRANNY THREAD?
Male chicks?
I saw a hen walking with 11 baby chicks.
I quickly built a cage for them.
After a while we realized 8 of them were roosters.
The poor hens were being raped by one after another.
The girls run free but I locked up the roosters.
I didn’t want to take them to the pound and let the government know we have chickens.
I didn’t know how to get rid of them and they were starting to fight each other.
I found a processor.
He charged 6 dollars each to cut them and package them and said to come back in 20 minutes.
The meat is too tough, so my wife will make dog food out of them and give some to the neighbors.
“Some chickens are more equal than others.” ~ Animal Farm
A really interesting video, ‘The Natural History of the Chicken’ was put out by PBS in 2006. I always recommend it for anyone ‘involved’ with chickens.
https://www.amazon.com/Natural-History-Chicken-Janet-Bonney/dp/B0000TPAR4
I’ve raised chickens and sold their unborn children for profit! My eventual goal is to breed and raise Heirloom varieties for sale to others as pullets. I’ve raised, killed and butchered my own Chicken Dinners. And the MIRACLE of an egg turning into a little fluffy chick will never be lost on me. ;)
Seriously? I’m a broken record on this topic, but the CLOSER you can get to your food sources, the better it is for you. Grow it. Bake it. Raise it. Hunt it. Fish it. Butcher it. Cook it. Eat it. At the very least, buy your dairy, meat, eggs and veggies LOCALLY. Eat SEASONALLY so you’re not eating Strawberries in the dead of Winter, shipped to you via ridiculously wasteful practices from CA or MX!
Do whatever small things you can to be more self-sufficient. Mother Government is NOT your friend by any stretch of the imagination.
*STEPS OFF SOAPBOX* :)
And, yes. I’m sorry ‘boy chicks’ are expendable. Glad to see some companies doing something about it.
Your credibility on everything went out the window when you said you were a vegetarian but ate eggs. What BS! Kinda like taking an oath of chastity to enter the priesthood but dabbling now and then with the kiddies.
“I admit that when I think about the male chick’s, I am bothered by their fates.”
In my book, once a male, always a male, so there is NO WAY that male chicks exist, regardless of makup or clothing.
Don’t care. BTW, I have layers. When we discover a young bird is a rooster, we immediately put it down. Multiple roosters are a problem.
Yep like dying in a homemade submarine. It happens faster than your brain gets the message.
I would raise the chicks in my home office. During our first month together, there was always a chick or two in my sweater, on my shoulder or perching atop my head. They considered me their mother.
Later, when they moved outside to a coop, they ranged freely over the eight acres my husband and I own in rural New Hampshire. Whenever they caught sight of me, they would greet me as if I were a member of the Beatles,
this is what perverts do with children.
Ok, read the article. Figures my mother knew about them and would roast one every now and then, she was from Normandy. The French did a lot of clipping male chicks. The main drawback I see to raising them commercially is they take longer to grow than a hen which can be as little as 6 weeks. They are less aggressive than a regular rooster and can be kept with other capons. Bigger and tastier than a regular chicken. Maybe a cottage industry. I would be a customer.
They taste better!
Beef stock can be a pain. They do stupid and sometimes dangerous things. I heard a young 4h stockman say IN 3 MORE MONTHSI WILL BE COOKING YOU!
Ergo the ubiquitous ANIMAL PROTIEN
Duck itch! Endemic in local lakes in spring
SHE BETTER NEVER SEE HOW SAUSAGE IS MADE !!!!!!!!!
“Wow, Al was named after a tough chicken.”
What does AI have to do with anything?
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