Healthy soil and sustainable growing

[Alan Whitaker <alan@dunbrokeus.com>]

art corbit wrote:

> There is no way I would eat chicken of their eggs if they were fed maggots.
> I just wouldn't have chickens at all if that was all I could afford to feed
> them. Most families produce enough table scraps and other household waste to
> feed a dozen or so hens. Chickens will eat just about anything. You can cook
> potato peels a little and chickens will ear every bite of them. They will
> eat about any kind of garden waste. You can easily grow a few rows of head
> grain. Just cut the heads  and toss a few into the pen. Chickens love to
> pick the grain off the heads. The old saying that "you are what you eat"
> also applies to chickens.
>
> Art in Arkansas
>
>  
I hope you are not buying chicken at your local grocer and eating it.  
It's nothing for the growers to have a few hundred dead chickens in the 
morning in each house and the others pecking at them.  Also, cannibalism 
and disease are rampant in these houses
even though this is considered the "best" way to produce poultry.