Preach. 35 is a lot of chickens. Making a garden produce enough food to feed a family is a JOB. And that doesn’t even get into the issues of storage, distribution, etc. And I say this as someone who loves to garden and who has space!
https://twitter.com/pecunium/status/1487140518777823232
Their next stage is “if that family also kept two hogs.”
Friends, there is no power on earth that could entice me to keep hogs. If you put a gun to my head and pointed at a pair of shoats, I would commend my soul to the saints and tell you to pull the trigger.
Friends, there is no power on earth that could entice me to keep hogs. If you put a gun to my head and pointed at a pair of shoats, I would commend my soul to the saints and tell you to pull the trigger.
Wait, I misread. TEN hogs?!
I’d load the gun for you. Hogs are not hobby livestock.
I’d load the gun for you. Hogs are not hobby livestock.
The human being I know who is closest to Dr. Doolittle, who loves every species on earth with a broad and profound love, who is a Disney Princess to make Kevin look like a wicked stepsister, burned out on hogs. She tried so hard, and that was the animal that broke her.
And the thing is, I haaaaate industrial farming. I do! I would love if everybody was able to keep a couple hens if they wanted to! I would love to end the feedlot and the hog waste lagoon tomorrow!
And if I had an easy solution, believe me, I wouldn’t be keeping it to myself! But the drive to place responsibility on the individual never gets us anywhere good.
Support your local small farmer, but don’t beat yourself up if you can’t be one.
Support your local small farmer, but don’t beat yourself up if you can’t be one.
Yeah, this also conveniently leaves out slaughter and butchery. Which is HARD, and I don’t just mean emotionally, I mean it is a lot of goddamn work, processing a large mammal.
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