Monday, September 7, 2020

Informative Tumblr Thread Supports Local And Ethical Farms


This educational Tumblr thread effectively debunks some misconceptions that folks have surrounding local and ethical farms. We have a Tumblr user come in hot with some "facts" that they clearly didn't bother researching themselves, before sharing. Fortunately another Tumblr user comes in to clear up the mess, and lay out the reasons why it's a worthwhile endeavor to support those local and ethical farms. 

Check out another entertaining read from Tumblr with this story about the dad that defeated an evil snowplow with a steel enforced mailbox. A legendary story of revenge if we've ever seen one. 

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Text - despazito Follow vegans who refuse to even eat backyard eggs..why despazito Follow people who think its unethical to eat chicken eggs are like people who think bees should keep all their honey. they literally produce more than they need and your unwillingness to even buy local means you are doing nothing to help them, support your small farmers you heathens

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Text - feminist-james This is not true. 1) honeybees do not produce "extra honey." And beekeepers don't take some of the honey, they take all of it. 2) chickens have been artificially selected from naturally producing eggs once a month to producing eggs every couple of days. Their bodies are not sustainable and the health complications of this rapid egg production kills chickens.

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Text - spoonfulofwhoopass Follow Hey idk who like. Lied to you about the way honey farms work, but could you stop spreading misinformation? Are you a beekeeper? Because I am! Beekeepers make sure hives are fed before there is pollen in the air, protected from predators and the elements, and have enough honey to sustain themselves. We don't take all of it.

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Text - But overproduction of honey leads to stagnation in the hive. It puts stress on the queen to lay eggs, and when they inevitably fill up all their space with honey (instead of filling up the multiple empty, clean boxes of frames beekeepers might put on top of the main hive box), the queen can get so stressed she dies. If there's a spike in the weather and the hive hasn't prepared new queen brood, that's it! The colony is dead. Because there wasn't enough space for eggs and honey in the hive

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Text - I know there's an urge to patronize everyone who works in the farming industry, but try to understand the differences between small scale agriculture and industrial farming. There IS a difference. And stop spreading misinformation. If you're this passionate about ethical consumption, look into some of the ecofeminist research on non-hierarchal interspecies relationships (working on building animal-human relationships in a non exploitative way). But yeah! Stop spreading misinformation! Ple

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Text - himbozack Also if I can harp on the chicken part? Yea Chickens are some of the most abused animals on big factory farms and l'll be the first to admit it's criminal and more needs to be done to regulate this. Yes selective breeding over time has caused an increase in the ammount of eggs produced by chickens and factory farms have some messed up practices to get more eggs from them including forced moutling. THIS IS WHY YOU SUPPORT LOCAL FARMERS AND THEIR EGGS

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Text - Many people take to raising their own hens because of America's immoral treatment of hens in factory farms like you're not helping the poor chicks by starving these farmers financially you're just hurting the one people trying to change things and making the OPTION of cage free organic cruelty free eggs even harder to find simplelittlepaperyanon Follow Yeah, as someone who like... lives on a chicken and duck farm... Coops help keep wild animals out but birds are kinda dumb. And chickens l

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Text - kuzuryuu-course Also, if you separate your cocks and your hens, there wont even be that issue in the first place. Egg-laying is basically chicken menstruation, but unlike mammalian menstruation which is full of blood and dead tissue, chicken menstruation is full of tasty tasty nutrients cluckbuck7 Follow Support local farms! Most grocery stores carry eggs from small, local farms that give hens acres of open pasture and healthier housing. jheselbraum Follow Also, that "selectively bred to

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