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Post by highstep »

wil421 wrote: post #745
cco wrote: post #653

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Having slaughtered my fair share of chickens on a relatively small but not back yard operation, there is a much easier way! Buy a t-post (any 3-5 foot rigid metal pole will do but a t-post has perfect geometry). Next, you'll grab your chicken, lay her down on her back or stomach [1], once she has settled down you're going to lay the t-post gently across her spine just a bit behind her skull. Now place your feet on ei…

Use a traffic cone. It will be easier and calm the chicken down.

highly agree. after using a cone anything else seems haphazard and cruel.

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Post by RobotCaleb »

hattmall wrote: post #738
nsbk wrote: post #715

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Throwing away the core is throwing away both food and the most beneficial part of the apple for your gut. Of the ~100 million bacteria in an apple, the core and seeds contain around 60%, while the pulp only contains around 20%, the skin 10%, the stem 10%. Numbers are from the top of my head, they could be off

Are you saying you eat Apple Cores?

It's actually not that hard if you change how you eat an apple. Don't eat around the core, and there won't be any core left at the end.

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Post by coldblues »

0xbadcafebee wrote: post #639

This is it? This the big meme of 2025? "Remember when eggs were expensive"? Ukraine is at war, minorities are being oppressed at home, an economic tidal wave is about to hit us vis-a-vis Chinese imports, the economy is on the ropes, and big brother is literally banning the government from saying words like "sex" and "gender" - but, oh boy, can you believe the price of these eggs??? Is every person in this country eat…

This is what people fundamentally care about. The price of food, a roof under their head, clean water, fresh air and general healthiness. The problems you describe are beyond most people's grasp or reach.

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Post by Server6 »

aucisson_masque wrote: post #599

Lots of people suggesting to build chicken coop. i have one, sure it's not much work. 2 minutes every day to grab the egg and bring the food and water, but then every 3 year you got to take the hatchet, grab each chicken, cut right on the neck and then hang it with it's feet while it's bleeding out and flapping its wings. then there are the few occasion where you miss with the hatchet and it cuts half its neck, its h…

Isn't the problem here bird flu? I'd be very afraid of raising chickens right now and inviting this kind of thing directly into my home. The solution here is to suck it and go without eggs while this thing hopefully blows over.

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Post by picture »

Yajirobe wrote: post #750
cco wrote: post #653

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Having slaughtered my fair share of chickens on a relatively small but not back yard operation, there is a much easier way! Buy a t-post (any 3-5 foot rigid metal pole will do but a t-post has perfect geometry). Next, you'll grab your chicken, lay her down on her back or stomach [1], once she has settled down you're going to lay the t-post gently across her spine just a bit behind her skull. Now place your feet on ei…

This is all so brutal. I can’t believe you people are discussing such things so nonchalantly

I think your sentiment encapsulates the hypocrisy of modern people where the systems have developed over thousands of years to further and further insulate us from all the less pretty aspects of life, to a point where we largely forget the fact that we shit and kill things for food and greed. Our meat comes pre-portioned on a polystyrene tray and wrapped under cellophane. Just abstract blocks of yummy protein. We also built garbage collection and sewer systems that lets most of us forget about the waste we produce. Out of sight, out of mind.

Humanely dispatching chicken is probably among the most mundane, natural, necessary, and arguably righteous aspects of what humans do to survive. While this part of the modern system is certainly not a "bad thing", I still think about my friend's opinion that everyone who eats meat should kill and process a living creature at least once in their life. If they can't handle it, then they shouldn't eat meat

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Post by not_the_fda »

gadders wrote: post #707
aucisson_masque wrote: post #599

Lots of people suggesting to build chicken coop. i have one, sure it's not much work. 2 minutes every day to grab the egg and bring the food and water, but then every 3 year you got to take the hatchet, grab each chicken, cut right on the neck and then hang it with it's feet while it's bleeding out and flapping its wings. then there are the few occasion where you miss with the hatchet and it cuts half its neck, its h…

>>but then every 3 year you got to take the hatchet, grab each chicken, cut right on the neck and then hang it with it's feet while it's bleeding out and flapping its wings. We've had chickens - up to about 20 at times - and have never done this. We're not farming them. Once they become too old to lay they can still hang out with the other chickens and scratch around. We don't mind that they're "retired". I have had…

Its certainly an option. Chickens can live 7-12 years so that's a lot of feed for a chicken to not produce eggs. More economical to make soup. Their livestock, not pets.

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Post by rurp »

picture wrote: post #775
Yajirobe wrote: post #750

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This is all so brutal. I can’t believe you people are discussing such things so nonchalantly

I think your sentiment encapsulates the hypocrisy of modern people where the systems have developed over thousands of years to further and further insulate us from all the less pretty aspects of life, to a point where we largely forget the fact that we shit and kill things for food and greed. Our meat comes pre-portioned on a polystyrene tray and wrapped under cellophane. Just abstract blocks of yummy protein. We als…

Well said. I'll just add that even vegetarianism gets idealized as well. The farmers growing those crops do far worse things than humanely killing a chicken to vast amounts of wildlife that they perceive as pests.

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Post by MRPockets »

picture wrote: post #775
Yajirobe wrote: post #750

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This is all so brutal. I can’t believe you people are discussing such things so nonchalantly

I think your sentiment encapsulates the hypocrisy of modern people where the systems have developed over thousands of years to further and further insulate us from all the less pretty aspects of life, to a point where we largely forget the fact that we shit and kill things for food and greed. Our meat comes pre-portioned on a polystyrene tray and wrapped under cellophane. Just abstract blocks of yummy protein. We als…

I don't think hypocrisy is really the best word. The GP's objection may be uninformed or out of line with reality, but it is (likely) the result of the very distance between food source and consumption that you are talking about; ignorance not hypocrisy.

I have had the opportunity to hunt twice in my life; both times I harvested a deer. I would happily do so again. But while I disagree with the sentiment of the GP, I do agree that there is something profound about killing an animal (for food or otherwise) such that talking about it nonchalantly can be startling.

I'm probably just nitpicking here.

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Post by lobsterthief »

mcv wrote: post #755
stevenwoo wrote: post #580

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Bird flu in the US has spread to wild animals and other species of wild and domesticated animals so it is very widespread, also there is a vaccine but poultry farms refuse to use it because of cost and it would make the meat/eggs not suitable for export, poultry producers have resorted to making their poultry farms as clean as possible, washing trucks that come onto property, making employees wash and wear protective…

We've also had bird flu in NL some years ago, but I don't think it was anywhere near that dramatic. I do vaguely recall that it was mostly an issue for free range chickens, because they go outside and can get infected by wild birds shitting from above. I'd expect indoor chickens to be less vulnerable, though I do recall similar measures to prevent humans from spreading it. I think there have been rules that free rang…

The Trump administration has stated that the CDC and other public health organizations cannot release any data or statements without first running them through the organization. So these public health orgs and the general public have not been communicating like they should during such a disaster. It’s insane and because of this we’re only at the tip of the bird flu iceberg.

Send help. Most of us didn’t sign up for this.

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Post by xboxnolifes »

taeric wrote: post #500
xboxnolifes wrote: post #495

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Not necessarily. Supporting local is the opposite of supporting scale, it's supporting decentralization. A single local provider might not be able to sustain all local demand, but there need not be only 1 local provider.

Somewhat exactly? Supporting local is largely the opposite of supporting scale. Unless you have the idea that local farms can make up all of the sales that are done, then you are arguing for a practice that will result in a lower supply of goods. With a lower supply, you expect prices to rise until the demand adjusts down to a lower value, as well. No? Hence, this is great advice for anyone to try. But if everyone do…

Decentralization doesn't necessarily imply lower supply of goods, but it does almost certainly result in higher cost of goods (outside of compared to monopolies). That's the cost of market resilience: higher average cost for lower variance over time. Higher cost of goods may result in lower demand and then lower supply, but the causal order is the opposite direction from assuming decentralization means lower supply.
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