Hi Bhodi!
I'm not a fan of PETA, but I
do think that the factory farm raised chickens
are treated and raised horribly. I can barely stand to eat it after
reading Joel Salatin's <---(spelling???)book Pastured Poultry Profits.
The horribly crowded and despicable conditions...not to mention the
antibiotics required and the ARSENIC in the feedstuff...is awful.
Factory farm eggs are just as bad...the hens NEVER get to eat the things that God made them to eat...no green grass, no buggies.They are
caged in TINY cages...6 hens to a cage, I do believe...with not enough room to rest...the cages have sloping wire floors...and the egg rolls immediately out. They don't even get the pleasure of clucking over their eggs...which
any chicken lover knows that some hens just LOVE to make a fuss over their
eggs!
I believe that God has allowed us to eat meat...in fact, I believe we so need
animal products of some sort or another. BUT, the Bible says that the righteous man careth for the life of his beast...God also says that no one was
ever to simmer a kid in it's mothers milk...God does not condone cruelty, imo.
And, I guess I feel it best that an animal live a life doing what God intended
for them to do...even if they indeed are destined for the table. I also think
small farms are much better things to support...environmentally and economically...than the factory giants. That's why we buy so much from
the Amish here...we make a weekly trip...but can't tell ya what all we get...
check out
www.realmilk.com and you'll understand more about this all.
Anyway... The result of the factory farming method is an egg, that,
though still nutritional, has way more omega 6's than omega 3's (and an
imbalance of these vital oils is a major contributing factor to cancer sadly enough...in fact...taking extra omega 3's (flax seed oil,etc.), I have read, can
help prevent and even reverse cancers...but check this out for
yourselves y'all. I'm NO doc. and cannot advise.]
If y'all haven't had a REAL farm egg...they aren't too expensive (heck, if y'all lived near me you could have some for free!I love to share good things!) and you're in for quite a treat---if you like eggs.
DH used to love eggs, and the store eggs started making him very sick, but
our eggs never do...and that man can EAT! My word...a 6 egg omelette is nothing to him...add the bacon or sausage and toast and coffee...the man really oughtta be topping the scales at 400 lbs instead of 180!!!!! (He makes me ill...his metabolism...some people have all the luck, lol.
I get by on salad & fruit,lol(oh and a bit of very spicy pepper jack...the
HOTTER:furious: the better!!!
))
Bhodi, you may not want to read this next part:
We raise our own chickens...for eggs. (Though admittedly I
HAVE butchered
two really mean roosters before...I had no choice...they were awful and
becoming very
dangerous to my children and the neighbor kids...who dear though they are, do not know enough to stay out of other people's
things (chicken coops, etc.),BUT these bad boys loved ME(well in a chicken kind of way)--would even sleep in my arms!!! So it was
very SAD for me...I cried and cried. ugh!
They were mighty tasty though, lol, and my children were so not bothered...I was shocked!!!! Dd played Aunt Rhodie on our piano and was singing...Go tell Aunt Rhodie,Go tell Aunt Rho-oh-die...go tell Aunt Rhodie, the ole black rooster is dead. Then they said : oh my this is awful: "mmm, I'm eating Pity...mmm, I'm eating Nannie." Oh my goodness, am I raising little psychos???lol!:crazy: Dh couldn't eat any...poor guy.
WE have a really mean roo right now...and HE IS HUGE...but, as he is a
"purebreed", I shall try to find him a childless home this week. He's great
with the gals. (I can't quite bear to do him in...not sure if I'd do that
again...but if ever we have to, at least I know that I CAN.)
God bless,
love,
Ariel