by Tanada » Mon 25 Mar 2019, 21:07:13
Outcast_Searcher wrote:Tanada wrote:Outcast_Searcher wrote:Tanada wrote:Lest we forget the bug experts have now discovered half a dozen worms with gut bacteria that digest PE and PS plastics for energy. By rights if the plastic is too cheap to recycle the logical course of action is to feed it to meal work larvae and feed most of the resulting grubs to poultry. Makes for lots of healthy hens laying lots of nutritious eggs, all based on a waste product and a little system engineering.
Hmmm. Chicken, the meat fortified with plastic. Probably not the best marketing idea, but it it's profitable, industry will do it.
Just curious, do you have any concept off the top of your head what laying chickens are fed in those big factory sheds today?
If so write down what you think it is then research what it really is. If even one of the items you think they are fed is something different I posit they could substitute almost anything without you ever being wise to the change unless it was a huge media story.
Based on both of our comments, it seems we are in agreement, overall. I'm not sure what you seem to be upset about, re my comment. (My referral to marketing re plastic was obviously sarcastic. No?)
(Look, I've seen news pieces on commercial scale "free range" chickens in CA, and it's clearly not the idealistic view of 7 chickens running around on a huge grassy farm eating seeds that the industry would like us to believe.)
Not upset with you Outcast, sorry if it came across that way. Bad day on the health issues front so I am perhaps a little short tempered and that may be how I came across, but I assure you it was unintentional if that is the case.
I happen to have grown up on a small poultry farm and my family partnered to raise grass fed beef cattle with my uncles family so industrial farms are something of an annoyance to me. The folks who point at factory farms and think every farm is like that annoy me too lol, mostly vegan evangelists in my experience.
I also agree the problem is when a government, bought and paid for by lobbyists, sets the standards to define 'free range'. You just know that definition is going to be totally self serving and unrealistic.
I should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, design a building, write, balance accounts, build a wall, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, pitch manure, program a computer, cook, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.