60 Minutes tonight (18 September)

[SARGE]

i grew up on 500 acres in Ohio.. we raised Cattle, pigs, horses, chickens, rabbits and Timber Wolf Hybrids ( yes the rabbits were wolf food...)

all our animals were well fed and well treated..(except the rabbits .. they were fat but doomed from birth....)

most of my neighbors were equally kind to the critters.. one of the clowns down the road had 20 cattle being raised in a junkyard.. underfed and filthy.. exposed to all kinds of haz-mat

needless to say .. the Farmers in the area took offence to the treatment of his animals as it gave them ALL a bad name.. they took him to court and won.. he was forced to clean up his act and put his herd down. he was also sentenced to 2 years for animal neglect and cruelty and fined US$20,000

he dont live there no more..



end of the day ... .. 4 million people in NZ means lots of dead critters ...

if we were not meant to eat animals, they wouldnt be made of meat
bring on the Soylent Green

[98tls]

I grew up on 35000 acres of land....and never a mistreated animal ever....the old man even had a soft spot for a couple of old back and tans who used to find a spot in front of the fire come winter.....

[jrandom]

if we were not meant to eat animals, they wouldnt be made of meat

Word, brutha.

Vegetables? That's what you feed to food.

...

I din't see 60 Minnits, but for the record, y'all, in the last month, consequence of splitting my time between a vegan flatmate and Oop Norf, the only meat I've eaten is what I killed myself.

Righteous.

Matter of fact, this goddamn halo's getting a bit heavy. And my wrist's sore with all the polishing.

[mikey]

i gre up on a 1/4 acre section. we had a chicekn. it flew next door an the dog ate it.

[SwanTiger]

hey swanny....lay off us inbreeds from the south eh....

Alright, but only because I know you southerners give your livestock that extra special treatment

On a side note, pitty about those chickens. I had a pet duck once, cute little things that shit everywhere. Good way to pull chicks however

[SwanTiger]

i gre up on a 1/4 acre section. we had a chicekn. it flew next door an the dog ate it.

hey thats what happened to my duck, except it didn't fly, it crawled under a gap in the fence.

[SARGE]

i gre up on a 1/4 acre section. we had a chicekn. it flew next door an the dog ate it.

bet you had a closet with a BITCHIN grow light though huh?

[LilSel]

Didn't catch this... not sure I would have wanted to by whats being posted about what was shown.

My baby Daphney (Alaskan Malamute X Alsation) had to see a specialist today... and I was given 2 quotes for op on leg (torn a ligament) $3500 or $3000 (2 diff methods)... no matter the cost... she's my baby and i'll pay as much as it costs for her to be better. opps (not domestic animals, my bad!)

If ya cant look after them... dont have them... or give them to someone who can, im sure a cow that went to a neighbouring farm if the farmer couldnt feed it, would be more productive to like split profit with that other farmer that was feeding it or whatever... a dead cow=no good... a sick cow=no milk, no babies... half the profit for a productive healthy fed cow that lives elsewhere till things clear up=better than a fine n a dead cow IMO...

Free Range all the way!

[jrandom]

i gre up on a 1/4 acre section. we had a chicekn. it flew next door an the dog ate it.

mikey, if Salvador Dali and Dave Barry had ever gotten married, you would have been their firstborn.

[LilSel]

I had a pet duck once, cute little things that shit everywhere. Good way to pull chicks however

*writes note* 'Get Duck-keep away from the dogs'

[Ixion]

i gre up on a 1/4 acre section. we had a chicekn. it flew next door an the dog ate it.

This is scarey. I also had a pet chicken (well, a bantam rooster actually, Figures). And the dog ate it. Cept it was my own dog. Do y'suppose Mikey and I could be cousins or something?

[SwanTiger]

This is scarey. I also had a pet chicken (well, a bantam rooster actually, Figures). And the dog ate it. Cept it was my own dog. Do y'suppose Mikey and I could be cousins or something?

I think it is a conspiracy, who else had a pet chicken/duck/bird and had it eaten by a dog?

Perhaps it is like the whale thing where they are sensitive to the magnetic forces of the Earth and do crazy things when those forces aren't "right".

[sels1]

This is scarey. I also had a pet chicken (well, a bantam rooster actually, Figures). And the dog ate it. Cept it was my own dog. Do y'suppose Mikey and I could be cousins or something?

Yeah - you and Mikey do talk alike....

We had chooks at home as kids too...only a dog didnt eat them....we did

[Jantar]

I think it is a conspiracy, who else had a pet chicken/duck/bird and had it eaten by a dog?

Well, not by a dog, but we've lost 3 hens and a rooster to ferrets, and one young chicken to a hawk.

And if they don't stop sh!tting around the back door, we may lose another 6 to the pot.

[Beemer]

I must confess to feeling physically sick watching that item. I honestly don't think I will ever be able to buy anything but freerange eggs now, and the thought of bacon isn't that appealing. Don't know what I can do about milk though, but I do feel sorry for the cows forced to live their lives like that.

I never liked Charlie Pedersen anyway, but his comment that in the 'natural world' the weak get killed and isn't it far better to be stuck in a small cage than be attacked by your own made me want to do the same to him.

We all like to think that the meat we eat is farmed responsibly but this shows that unfortunately the majority of it isn't. Don't want to put farmers out of business, but there's got to be a better way.

I think the worst part was the description of what they did to the day-old male chicks. How the HELL can they justify that by saying it is the most humane and painless method of killing them?