Re: Sick Black Rock


"A_ L _P" <hay_hell_pea@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:48570AC6.6060904@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Excuse top-posting - I have left the whole post because I think it is so important. Jill, you are going to get SO flamed for this! Thank you for having the guts to say it.

Reluctantly I agree with everything you have said. On the basis of my much smaller amount of experience and observation it is all too true.

Humans have out-bred the resources. Humans being resourceful have then found work-arounds - famine relief, intensive food production etc - to allow ourselves to keep on increasing our numbers and escalating our demands for an ever-rising standard of "necessities". Since culling humans is just not on except as a by-product of war, the battery chicken system is only one of our "necessary evils" and there will be more and more as time and ingenuity advance.

The loss of other breeds, be they plant or animal, is dangerous for our future. This is well recognized and addressed by the seed banks of which the most far-sighted appears to be the one in the natural deep freeze in the north of Norway. But we cannot do that with chickens or sheep, which leaves us vulnerable to pandemics within the dominant strains.

Jill, your plea for people to continue breeding the birds that have particular strengths to withstand various conditions demonstrates the value of detachment *as well as* compassion, for all keepers of animals. It's a hard balance to keep in real life, heart *and* head, dealing with present misery *and* forestalling errors-in-waiting.

A L P


Jill did the straw man of, in effect, if you have ex-batts then somehow, you're doing down other breeds, which is crap. It's no different to someone having a moggie as a pet as opposed to a purebreed Siamese cat. Nor is saving some ex-batts and not liking the battery system somehow mean that you're against feeding folk. If someone has ex-batts then it doesn't mean they don't give a stuff about other breeds of poultry.

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