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2008-11-05 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

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Posted by Beavis 2008-11-05 12:55|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 Choke your chicken, go to jail.

Posted by ed 2008-11-05 14:20|| 2008-11-05 14:20|| Front Page Top

#2 would not be surprised to see an exodus from the industry. for 2 reasons, O's coming tax increase and this taking of property without compensation. or perhaps the growers will move to a more business-hospitable state.

Posted by USN, Ret. 2008-11-05 14:32|| 2008-11-05 14:32|| Front Page Top

#3 where, washington?

Posted by Lumpy Claque7564 2008-11-05 16:13|| 2008-11-05 16:13|| Front Page Top

#4 Or chicken, eggs, pork and veal will all be more expensive. Then the public can weigh their decision. I love animals, but I voted against this one.

Posted by remoteman 2008-11-05 16:14|| 2008-11-05 16:14|| Front Page Top

#5 You can euthanize your family member but don't you dare mistreat a chicken.

Posted by Steve White 2008-11-05 16:27|| 2008-11-05 16:27|| Front Page Top

#6 Yeah, yeah, yeah. But I'd rather give chickens a little more leg room than watch
Gavin Newsom perform any more gay marriages. At least we got one right.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2008-11-05 16:51|| 2008-11-05 16:51|| Front Page Top

#7 It's funny really. We've duplicated the minimum wage labor issue with farm animals if my guess is right. Chicken sweatshops in Tijuana will provide for California while the California poultry industry leaves.

So we've increased the carbon consumption to get them to market, we've lowered our ability to ensure sanitary conditions, we've put California's out of jobs, and we've simply swept chicken cruelty issues out of view.

Posted by rjschwarz 2008-11-05 18:06|| 2008-11-05 18:06|| Front Page Top

#8 I'm all for the reasonable treatment of animals. If it costs me 5 cents more for a dozen eggs thats fine. You don't need to torture them for their entire life before you kill them. Modern animal husbandry has become bizarre in its methods. I did a good sized report on the situation with hog farming when I was an undergrad and there is some really weird shit going on in the farming world right now. Many hog farmers are uncomfortable with the industry and how it has evolved. Hogs are more intelligent than dogs, and when you coupe them up in a stall where they can't move they can actually go insane. I'm all for free markets, low prices, yada, yada, but if you take the time to learn a little about what modern animal farms are doing it would probably rate about a 9.5 on your weird shit-o-meter. Its not like grandpa's farm any more, it really is bizarre and cruel, and that's coming from ME. I wouldn't even keep mooks in those kind of conditions.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2008-11-05 23:27|| 2008-11-05 23:27|| Front Page Top

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