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Who Would Be an Opposite of a monsanto Shill or Apologist?
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... In article , Charlie wrote: Joel Salatin. Some of ya are familiar with this man and his work. His attitude towards farming also works small scale, as in gardening. http://www.csmonitor.com/Environment...-salatin-advoc ates-a-better-way-to-raise-food “We should at least be asking, Is there a righteous way to farm and an unrighteous way to farm? ... The first goal is to at least get people to appreciate that how we farm is a moral question,” he says. “Once you get to that point, then you can actually discuss: What is a moral farm? What is a moral way to raise a chicken?” Thanks, Charlie, a real keeper. "Back to nature" farming but he keeps pigs indoors? Thats very unnatural so I I certainly won't bother keeping it. Too much emphasis on righteousness and too little on nature TMWOT. When I look down on that poor animal on my plate, the last thing I want to think about is whether it had been tortured. We have canine's. We are facultative meat eaters, but that doesn't mean that we have to be sadists. The militarization of the country, with the increasing bloodiness of entertainment (movies and video games), seems to be morally de-sensitizing the populous. I mean, who cares , if their dinner had to be delivered to the slaughter house by fork lift? Huh? |
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Who Would Be an Opposite of a monsanto Shill or Apologist?
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"FarmI" ask@itshall be given wrote: "Wildbilly" wrote in message ... In article , Charlie wrote: Joel Salatin. Some of ya are familiar with this man and his work. His attitude towards farming also works small scale, as in gardening. http://www.csmonitor.com/Environment...oel-salatin-ad voc ates-a-better-way-to-raise-food “We should at least be asking, Is there a righteous way to farm and an unrighteous way to farm? ... The first goal is to at least get people to appreciate that how we farm is a moral question,” he says. “Once you get to that point, then you can actually discuss: What is a moral farm? What is a moral way to raise a chicken?” Thanks, Charlie, a real keeper. "Back to nature" farming but he keeps pigs indoors? Thats very unnatural so I I certainly won't bother keeping it. Too much emphasis on righteousness and too little on nature TMWOT. When I look down on that poor animal on my plate, the last thing I want to think about is whether it had been tortured. We have canine's. We are facultative meat eaters, but that doesn't mean that we have to be sadists. The militarization of the country, with the increasing bloodiness of entertainment (movies and video games), seems to be morally de-sensitizing the populous. I mean, who cares , if their dinner had to be delivered to the slaughter house by fork lift? Huh? http://www.texasgrassfedbeef.com/chi...imal_abuse.htm * *****More than two weeks after Wrangler's video caused a sensation online, the USDA issued the largest beef recall in the history of the United States: 143 million pounds of beef products, most of which has already been consumed. *About 40 percent of that meat went to the National School Lunch Program and other federal nutrition programs. *Amazingly, all of the abuses occurred with USDA inspectors on the premises. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallmar...acking_Company The USDA stressed that it is "extremely unlikely" that the cattle involved were at risk for Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) or mad-cow disease due to the employment of multiple safeguards. The USDA felt the recall was required, however, as the plant had allegedly violated USDA regulations. (The USDA helps farmers sell their crops.) http://www.hsus.org/farm/news/ournew...ion_update_013 008.html http://www.consumeraffairs.com/news0...ner_cow05.html The video, taken by an HSUS investigator working undercover as a plant employee at Bushways Packing in Grand Isle, Vermont, shows plant workers attempting to skin sickly-looking calves while still alive and hitting them with electric prods. The plant's co-owner is allegedly identified as participating in the abuse, while the USDA inspector jokes with the workers that if another inspector had been present, "he'd have to shut them down." Read mo http://www.consumeraffairs.com/news0...html#ixzz0gTOe ZtXz I guess it is just us effete, quiche and arugula chewing liberals, who feel revulsion at the torture of animals. A real farmer, like you, probably just takes it as another chore to do, but even so, skinning calves alive seems a bit much. http://www.all-creatures.org/book/r-slaughterhouse.html http://www.vivausa.org/campaigns/chi...sterfarms.html http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/1208-07.htm And lastly, Joel Salatin: p. 126 "Grass," so understood, is the foundation of the intricate food chain Salatin has assembled at Polyface, where a half dozen different animal species are raised together in an intensive rotational dance on the theme of symbiosis. Salatin is the choreographer and the grasses are his verdurous stage; the dance has made Polyface one of the most productive and influential alternative farms in America. Though it was only the third week of June, the pasture beneath me had already seen several rotational turns. Before being cut earlier in the week for the hay that would feed the farm's animals through the winter, it had been grazed twice by beef cattle, which after each day-long stay had been succeeded by several hundred laying hens. They'd arrived by Eggmobile, a ramshackle portable henhouse designed and built by Salatin. Why chickens? "Because that's how it works in nature," Salatin explained. "Birds follow and clean up after herbivores." And so during their turn in the pasture, the hens had performed several ecological services for the cattle as well as the grass: They'd picked the tasty grubs and fly larvae out of the cowpats, in the process spreading the manure and eliminating parasites. (This is what Joel has in mind when he says the animals do the work around here; the hens are his "sanitation crew," the reason his cattle have no need of chemical parasiticides.) And while they were at it, nibbling on the short cattle-clipped grasses they like best, the chickens applied a few thousand pounds of nitrogen to the pasture-and produced several thousand uncommonly rich and tasty eggs. After a few week's rest, the pasture will be grazed again, each steer turning these lush grasses into beef at the rate of two or three pounds a day. By the end of the season Salatin's grasses will have been transformed by his animals into some 40,000 pounds of beef, 30,000 pounds of pork, 10,000 broilers, 1,200 turkeys, 1,000 rabbits, and 35,000 dozen eggs. This is an astounding cornucopia of food to draw from a hundred acres of pasture, yet what is perhaps still more astonishing is the fact that this pasture will be in no way diminished by the process-in fact, it will be the better for it, lusher, more fertile, even springier underfoot (this thanks to the increased earthworm traffic). Salatin's audacious bet is that feeding ourselves from nature need not be a zero-sum proposition, one in which if there is more for us at the end of the season then there must be less for nature-less topsoil, less fertility, less life. He's betting, in other words, on a very different proposition, one that looks an awful lot like the proverbially unattainable free lunch. --- The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan http://www.amazon.com/Omnivores-Dile...ls/dp/01430385 83/ref=pd_bbs_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1206815576&sr=1-1 -- "Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power." - Benito Mussolini. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100119/...ting_activists http://www.democracynow.org/2010/1/19/headlines |
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Who Would Be an Opposite of a monsanto Shill or Apologist?
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wrote: "FarmI" ask@itshall be given wrote: Too much emphasis on righteousness and too little on nature TMWOT. LOL! If ever there were a prima facie irrefutable argument for twit lists, OP and the followup are it! They've slimed rec.gardens.edible, too, but folks there have ignored it so far. Who's going to save the world from the save-the-world zeolots? Remember, a world is a terrible thing to lose. -- "Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power." - Benito Mussolini. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100119/...ting_activists http://www.democracynow.org/2010/1/19/headlines |
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Who Would Be an Opposite of a monsanto Shill or Apologist?
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Good yet the cold Hell in some world views Yields yet again... Eternal return played out yet again. Bill again. Put my electric snow shovel away being in denial. China Girl 5:29 David Bowie Wedding Singer Soundtrack 2 1/13/10 5:16 PM 1998 MPEG audio file -- Garden in shade zone 5 S Jersey USA http://www.sheep.com/sounds/baasheep1.wav |
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Who Would Be an Opposite of a monsanto Shill or Apologist?
"Wildbilly" wrote in message
... In article , "FarmI" ask@itshall be given wrote: "Wildbilly" wrote in message ... In article , Charlie wrote: Joel Salatin. Some of ya are familiar with this man and his work. His attitude towards farming also works small scale, as in gardening. http://www.csmonitor.com/Environment...oel-salatin-ad voc ates-a-better-way-to-raise-food “We should at least be asking, Is there a righteous way to farm and an unrighteous way to farm? ... The first goal is to at least get people to appreciate that how we farm is a moral question,” he says. “Once you get to that point, then you can actually discuss: What is a moral farm? What is a moral way to raise a chicken?” Thanks, Charlie, a real keeper. "Back to nature" farming but he keeps pigs indoors? Thats very unnatural so I I certainly won't bother keeping it. Too much emphasis on righteousness and too little on nature TMWOT. When I look down on that poor animal on my plate, the last thing I want to think about is whether it had been tortured. We have canine's. We are facultative meat eaters, but that doesn't mean that we have to be sadists. The militarization of the country, with the increasing bloodiness of entertainment (movies and video games), seems to be morally de-sensitizing the populous. I mean, who cares , if their dinner had to be delivered to the slaughter house by fork lift? Huh? http://www.texasgrassfedbeef.com/chi...imal_abuse.htm More than two weeks after Wrangler's video caused a sensation online, the USDA issued the largest beef recall in the history of the United States: 143 million pounds of beef products, most of which has already been consumed. About 40 percent of that meat went to the National School Lunch Program and other federal nutrition programs. Amazingly, all of the abuses occurred with USDA inspectors on the premises. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallmar...acking_Company The USDA stressed that it is "extremely unlikely" that the cattle involved were at risk for Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) or mad-cow disease due to the employment of multiple safeguards. The USDA felt the recall was required, however, as the plant had allegedly violated USDA regulations. (The USDA helps farmers sell their crops.) http://www.hsus.org/farm/news/ournew...ion_update_013 008.html http://www.consumeraffairs.com/news0...ner_cow05.html The video, taken by an HSUS investigator working undercover as a plant employee at Bushways Packing in Grand Isle, Vermont, shows plant workers attempting to skin sickly-looking calves while still alive and hitting them with electric prods. The plant's co-owner is allegedly identified as participating in the abuse, while the USDA inspector jokes with the workers that if another inspector had been present, "he'd have to shut them down." Read mo http://www.consumeraffairs.com/news0...html#ixzz0gTOe ZtXz I guess it is just us effete, quiche and arugula chewing liberals, who feel revulsion at the torture of animals. A real farmer, like you, probably just takes it as another chore to do, but even so, skinning calves alive seems a bit much. http://www.all-creatures.org/book/r-slaughterhouse.html http://www.vivausa.org/campaigns/chi...sterfarms.html http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/1208-07.htm And lastly, Joel Salatin: p. 126 "Grass," so understood, is the foundation of the intricate food chain Salatin has assembled at Polyface, where a half dozen different animal species are raised together in an intensive rotational dance on the theme of symbiosis. Salatin is the choreographer and the grasses are his verdurous stage; the dance has made Polyface one of the most productive and influential alternative farms in America. Though it was only the third week of June, the pasture beneath me had already seen several rotational turns. Before being cut earlier in the week for the hay that would feed the farm's animals through the winter, it had been grazed twice by beef cattle, which after each day-long stay had been succeeded by several hundred laying hens. They'd arrived by Eggmobile, a ramshackle portable henhouse designed and built by Salatin. Why chickens? "Because that's how it works in nature," Salatin explained. "Birds follow and clean up after herbivores." And so during their turn in the pasture, the hens had performed several ecological services for the cattle as well as the grass: They'd picked the tasty grubs and fly larvae out of the cowpats, in the process spreading the manure and eliminating parasites. (This is what Joel has in mind when he says the animals do the work around here; the hens are his "sanitation crew," the reason his cattle have no need of chemical parasiticides.) And while they were at it, nibbling on the short cattle-clipped grasses they like best, the chickens applied a few thousand pounds of nitrogen to the pasture-and produced several thousand uncommonly rich and tasty eggs. After a few week's rest, the pasture will be grazed again, each steer turning these lush grasses into beef at the rate of two or three pounds a day. By the end of the season Salatin's grasses will have been transformed by his animals into some 40,000 pounds of beef, 30,000 pounds of pork, 10,000 broilers, 1,200 turkeys, 1,000 rabbits, and 35,000 dozen eggs. This is an astounding cornucopia of food to draw from a hundred acres of pasture, yet what is perhaps still more astonishing is the fact that this pasture will be in no way diminished by the process-in fact, it will be the better for it, lusher, more fertile, even springier underfoot (this thanks to the increased earthworm traffic). Salatin's audacious bet is that feeding ourselves from nature need not be a zero-sum proposition, one in which if there is more for us at the end of the season then there must be less for nature-less topsoil, less fertility, less life. He's betting, in other words, on a very different proposition, one that looks an awful lot like the proverbially unattainable free lunch. --- The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan http://www.amazon.com/Omnivores-Dile...ls/dp/01430385 83/ref=pd_bbs_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1206815576&sr=1-1 -- "Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power." - Benito Mussolini. Thanks for those comments Wildbilly. Far more useful than the Christian Science Monitor article. I read the comments attached to the cites you put in but I didn't go to any as I'm sure I'd find them too distressing. Anyone who mistreats animals needs a good whipping at the very least IMHO. As a beef producer, I've been to both abattoirs and feedlots in this country and been reasonably impressed with the handling of the stock and the killing process. It's not ideal but given health regs and the need to protect human health, I guess it's the best that can be done in the circs. Mind you, I'm more impressed with most animals than humans so when I come to power, I'll ditch the human health regs and make the rules all about the animals. |
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Who Would Be an Opposite of a monsanto Shill or Apologist?
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"FarmI" ask@itshall be given wrote: Too much emphasis on righteousness and too little on nature TMWOT. LOL! If ever there were a prima facie irrefutable argument for twit lists, OP and the followup are it! They've slimed rec.gardens.edible, too, but folks there have ignored it so far. Who's going to save the world from the save-the-world zeolots? Well without those sorts of save-the-world zealots, we'd still have slavery and many other appalling practices. They do get a bit OTT at times but I can live wiht it. I'm less tolerant though of the sorts of articles that was posted from the Christain Science Monitor - lots of christianity and so little science it wasn't worth my bandwidth. |
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Who Would Be an Opposite of a monsanto Shill or Apologist?
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"FarmI" ask@itshall be given wrote: Thanks for those comments Wildbilly. Far more useful than the Christian Science Monitor article. I read the comments attached to the cites you put in but I didn't go to any as I'm sure I'd find them too distressing. Anyone who mistreats animals needs a good whipping at the very least IMHO. As a beef producer, I've been to both abattoirs and feedlots in this country and been reasonably impressed with the handling of the stock and the killing process. It's not ideal but given health regs and the need to protect human health, I guess it's the best that can be done in the circs. Mind you, I'm more impressed with most animals than humans so when I come to power, I'll ditch the human health regs and make the rules all about the animals. You got my vote for dictator ;O) -- "Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power." - Benito Mussolini. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100119/...ting_activists http://www.democracynow.org/2010/1/19/headlines |
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Who Would Be an Opposite of a monsanto Shill or Apologist?
"Wildbilly" wrote in message
... In article , "FarmI" ask@itshall be given wrote: Thanks for those comments Wildbilly. Far more useful than the Christian Science Monitor article. I read the comments attached to the cites you put in but I didn't go to any as I'm sure I'd find them too distressing. Anyone who mistreats animals needs a good whipping at the very least IMHO. As a beef producer, I've been to both abattoirs and feedlots in this country and been reasonably impressed with the handling of the stock and the killing process. It's not ideal but given health regs and the need to protect human health, I guess it's the best that can be done in the circs. Mind you, I'm more impressed with most animals than humans so when I come to power, I'll ditch the human health regs and make the rules all about the animals. You got my vote for dictator ;O) Great only 2.5 billion more votes to get :-)) |
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