tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35553161.post116810997878116593..comments2023-08-18T14:38:45.792+00:00Comments on In the company of wolves: jenglohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14409125132685216496noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35553161.post-1168437202295764942007-01-10T13:53:00.000+00:002007-01-10T13:53:00.000+00:00Thank you Thury! Smoked pork sounds good to me! Th...Thank you Thury! Smoked pork sounds good to me! There's been a distinct lack of tasty food around here! Happy New Year right-back-atchya, and it's been long-time-no-hear, so keep in touch, I miss you!jenglohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14409125132685216496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35553161.post-1168427156923886982007-01-10T11:05:00.000+00:002007-01-10T11:05:00.000+00:00Ahhh - what a fresh breeze it is to read your blog...Ahhh - what a fresh breeze it is to read your blog Jenny! After being marinated in Black Death (yes that is the Icelandic vodka equivalent) and smoked pork for two weeks, nothing works better than a proper gender talk to get the brain started again. Thank you. And happy New Year!thuryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08878170324426468822noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35553161.post-1168265514797964512007-01-08T14:11:00.000+00:002007-01-08T14:11:00.000+00:00Thank you for the article Armando! I've just read ...Thank you for the article Armando! I've just read it now, and it's really, really interesting - I LOVE this kind of stuff! - but I want to think on it and read it again before giving a proper response...<BR/><BR/>...Also, regarding the chickens and other aspects of the livestock here, I feel, maybe unnecessarily, just for the record, that I should state that, essentially, I don't really have the flippants attitude towards what happens to them as I may come across. In some ways it's the opposite: I can see that what is happening isn't fair and, by western standards, is largely unacceptable. But it's a very difficult situation, since I'm not qualified to object without being able to suggest alternative approaches. And I'm also conscious that, in development, it's the people who have to come first, and so I have to believe that what is done is for their benefit and that sometimes this conflicts with what's beneficial to the animals. <BR/>But then again, that approach means that I have double-standards, since in the UK I would not take the same approach: I would be more likely to argue that it makes no difference whether it's beneficial or not to the human, the animal still has equal rights... Ergh! It's complicated...!!jenglohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14409125132685216496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35553161.post-1168250911804581412007-01-08T10:08:00.000+00:002007-01-08T10:08:00.000+00:00...and in regards to the recognition and acceptanc......and in regards to the recognition and acceptance of other forms of being, you might find this article interesting:<BR/><BR/>http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/01/07/mars.life.ap/index.htmlAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35553161.post-1168204551295964212007-01-07T21:15:00.000+00:002007-01-07T21:15:00.000+00:00ahhhh yes... it's a cost/benefit issue. that does...ahhhh yes... it's a cost/benefit issue. that does make sense. Thank you for your excellent research!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35553161.post-1168177601565501212007-01-07T13:46:00.000+00:002007-01-07T13:46:00.000+00:00Hi Armando,So I asked the 'Chicken-Guy' (I've no i...Hi Armando,<BR/>So I asked the 'Chicken-Guy' (I've no idea what you call a chicken 'expert'!) your question and his response involved references to weight ratio of the chickens compared to how much food they eat. But I think the basic gist of it is that these are a specific breed of chicken who produce thousands of eggs but never grow large enough to eat. So, for a development project on a budget, feeding and housing chickens that can't produce eggs, nor grow big enough to make much of a meal, is simply not cost effective and takes up a space that another female egg-laying chicken could be filling.jenglohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14409125132685216496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35553161.post-1168144210207575672007-01-07T04:30:00.000+00:002007-01-07T04:30:00.000+00:00any clue as to why they dont allow the chickens to...any clue as to why they dont allow the chickens to mature and then eat them?? Seems like a waste of perfectly delicious meat.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com