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  •  So it's not about animal rights? (1+ / 0-)

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    cookiebear

    It's about the quality of the food supply?

    That I can get behind.

    The feelings of the chicken ... not so much.

    It's important to frame an argument properly if one wants buy-in from a broad population.

    John McCain is so (Ned) Divine!!

    by Glinda on Tue Aug 22, 2006 at 03:18:30 PM PDT

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    •  really (4+ / 0-)

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      Glinda, coigue, Elise, myrealname

      you do not want to eat crap from a factory farm

      it's worse than your wildest possible imaginings

      it's very, very, very nasty

      James Inhofe (R - Exxon): The greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the people of Oklahoma. - Eiron

      by cookiebear on Tue Aug 22, 2006 at 03:49:11 PM PDT

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      •  I know (1+ / 0-)

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        I eat local Hudson Valley organic everything when I'm home.

        Unfortunately during the week I eat at restaurants or my hotel's room service. The quality of the ingredients is noticably worse. But without a kitchen and in the boondocks of VA with no car, I haven't much choice.

        John McCain is so (Ned) Divine!!

        by Glinda on Tue Aug 22, 2006 at 04:13:17 PM PDT

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    •  Quality of life and quality of animal products (4+ / 0-)

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      Glinda, HK, desordre remplir, myrealname

      go together. I buy milk kfrom the cow at a nearby Amish farmer. When I look at store milk it doesn't even look like milk to me.

      If you ever named and had a pet chicken you would feel differently about their feelings. I had a tiny banty rooster who crowed when he couldn't have been more than 4 inches from tail to head. Adorable. His best friend was a guinea hen who had been raised by the banty's mother hen in the same flock. They were fast friends. If one of them got out of sight of the other my little Ozzie would jump up as high as he could get on something and crow and crow for Harriet until they were together again. They would come in the house and look for insects in the floorboards. They were just darling.

      And then I came home one day and a weasel had gotten both of them. Just sucked their blood out and left their bodies. Now I am crying again and it's been over ten years.

      FUKUOKA: Part of my purpose is to create a society where no one has to do anything.PARACELSUS:So then, you wormy and lousy Sophist...

      by abbeysbooks on Tue Aug 22, 2006 at 04:02:38 PM PDT

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      •  My butcher in upstate NY ... (2+ / 0-)

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        wader, RosyFinch

        has his shop in front of the farm where his wife, sons and daughters-in-law raise his poultry and game free range (in the true sense)and take it to the Union Square farmers market (and about a half dozen others) every market day.

        You can walk right back (if his wife's around) and see the animals. It's a loud happy farm ... like the farms of my childhood: small, sustainable.

        Great flavor and texture. Not inexpensive though ...

        John McCain is so (Ned) Divine!!

        by Glinda on Tue Aug 22, 2006 at 04:19:26 PM PDT

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