Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["TradingPostPaul" <tradingpost@riseup.net>]

Free range chickens eat everything from worms to insects. I don't think
that's equivalent to us eating worms and insects. And of course the stuff
fed to factory cage layers is unbelievable. 


paul tradingpost@lobo.net

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--Henry David Thoreau 
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On 7/22/2006 at 8:59 AM Alan Whitaker wrote:

>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.
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