Spring at Black Water Farm
Some big-titty Cornish Cross meat chicks. Take that, Pamela Anderson!
The layers love honeydew seeds!
Bunnies! These are the girls (New Zealands). The boy is in another cage. Daddy says they aren't old enough to date yet.
Somebody asked me, "Are you going to eat them?" No, I'm going to let them screw and then I'm going to EAT THEIR BABIES, mwahahaha!
Comments
Posted by: Wendy
Posted on: March 28, 2006 09:15 AM
LOL
Now the real question is, "Are you gonna pay a butcher to do the dirty work?"
K's mother *swears* that no one knows how to joint a chicken anymore.
Posted by: Jeffrey Quick
Posted on: March 28, 2006 09:30 AM
Uh-uh. See my last comment here:
http://blog.case.edu/jeffrey.quick/2006/03/26/why_even_peta_members_should_oppose_nais
It's great being married to a Scorpio!
I probably don't know how to properly joint a chicken, but they get et and taste good. I'm not up to my parent's standards on singeing either. What I really want to learn is that humane professional way of killing where you stick the knife into their beaks. I've never had the courage to try that somehow.
Posted by: Wendy
Posted on: March 29, 2006 12:58 PM
*nod* Gotchya. I read that before the comments, but hadn't made any real connection.
Ya know, the chip idea is a dodge to inspections. It's an attempt to find a magic bullet that'll cure the fact that the problem needs manpower and no one's gonna pay for it. It's BAD POLICY, which is a personal pet peeve, even before you get into ramifications, cruelty, and the tendency to prefer large over small.
Posted by: Jeffrey Quick
Posted on: March 29, 2006 02:47 PM
I don't see that, Wendy. I can't imagine any application of NAIS that won't cost more than inspections. The only difference is that most of the costs of NAIS can be shoved onto the producers.
A year or so ago, we had a company willing to pay to have every cow they had tested for BSE so they could ship to Japan. They WERE NOT ALLOWED TO, by the USDA. Why? If a company could sell certified disease-free beef, every other company would have to ALSO test, in order to remain competitive. And woe be to the company that said, "We don't think testing is necessary, so we're selling it for 10% less; eat at your own risk." So the industry's big players are not going to support this, and they call the shots with USDA.
Got Acres USA yesterday, and VA has a bill in the legislature making pastured poultry illegal. It's allegedly about bird flu; it's really about Joel Salatin pissing too many people off.