Re: Poopless chickens

0tterbot wrote:

i don't really know if that is their motivation, but their claim that
nitrogen and phosphorus are pollutants, and it's that which makes
this sort of "research" a good thing, has got to be the most
disingenuous thing i've read all week!!!

In a place that is as small as this island nitrogen pollution is a VERY
SERIOUS ecological pollutant.

If any of you in any other land mass consider yourselves too big or too
"whatever" to be unaffected - you are just TOO arrogant.

Nitrogen and other similar agricultural high dose pollutants are something
you should learn about from those who have already seen the effects

If all anyone all can ever think about is the piddling little bit their half
a dozen chooks produce its now wonder that the environment around them is
being destroyed. Then everyone all blames the ag-businesses for doing what
is required by the populace -- cheap food and lowest cost and unrealistic
fluffybunny ideas about how they achieve it.

Something I posted elsewhere - but is more pertinent here
July 10 2007
54,000 turkeys being destroyed in Shenandoah County in Virginia after
discovery of low path H5N1 during pre slaughter testing.
Last full blown Aivan flu outbreak in the same area was 2002 when almost 5
million birds were destroyed
Nearby Rockingham county is possibly the largest area of US poultry
production

and in the news for the area:-
July 11 2007
Massive fish kills in Shenandoah River are being investigated and two
university professors have recommended a focus on litter from the poultry
industry as a possibly cause. Poultry litter is either processed or applied
directly to fields and is used extensively throughout the area supplied by
the 900 poultry farms in Shenandoah valley.

Within the last week there were over 50,000 birds killed in one heat stroke
situation

Do you really think that the output of hundreds of thousands of birds is
FINE


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Jill Bowis

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