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Mar. 27th, 2006 01:02 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chelidonAnd more importantly, was it humanely raised, and how did it taste?
For them's that's interested, here's a decent story about a local farm which is the largest producer of cage-free eggs in New England, and the growing movement towards cage-free, as well as free-range, pasture-raised, and organic chickens and eggs. Much of the large-scale factory farming today involves a variety of cruel and inhumane practices and techniques towards the animals involved, and has the economic effect of forcing smaller farmers, who can't compete with mega-farms, out of the market. Just in general, but particularly as Peak Oil effects make it increasingly uneconomical to ship food long distances, a healthy local farm economy is going to be important in every region. The kinds of trends mentioned in the story are just a start, but they give me hope. I'll happily pay an extra buck for a dozen eggs to support a local farmer who treats his chickens humanely.
Actually, we get our summer eggs from one of my partner's co-workers, who's been trying to convince us to turn our chicken coop from a wood shed and generator house back into a henhouse. Eh, not this year...raising chickens is something I'm happy to let others do for now, there's a fairly good reason they're called "fowl." ;>
For them's that's interested, here's a decent story about a local farm which is the largest producer of cage-free eggs in New England, and the growing movement towards cage-free, as well as free-range, pasture-raised, and organic chickens and eggs. Much of the large-scale factory farming today involves a variety of cruel and inhumane practices and techniques towards the animals involved, and has the economic effect of forcing smaller farmers, who can't compete with mega-farms, out of the market. Just in general, but particularly as Peak Oil effects make it increasingly uneconomical to ship food long distances, a healthy local farm economy is going to be important in every region. The kinds of trends mentioned in the story are just a start, but they give me hope. I'll happily pay an extra buck for a dozen eggs to support a local farmer who treats his chickens humanely.
Actually, we get our summer eggs from one of my partner's co-workers, who's been trying to convince us to turn our chicken coop from a wood shed and generator house back into a henhouse. Eh, not this year...raising chickens is something I'm happy to let others do for now, there's a fairly good reason they're called "fowl." ;>
