Emperor Polis released a video of him signing a bill
requiring all eggs sold in Colorado be from “cage free” chickens. Inadvertently,
he shows that he (and/or his staff) is woefully uninformed of agriculture
reality.
Take a look at the chicken coop. Adequate for a hobby
farmer; maybe for a farm family’s needs, but not on a scale to support an egg
farm. Plus, what I see is a coyote feeding station with an occasional raptor
catching a meal.
As a personal choice, for years I’ve only purchased cage free
eggs. One, I can afford the extra dollar and, two, I don’t like the way caged
chickens live in an egg farm.
I vote my wallet and don’t need a bunch of Boulder County
holier than thou elitists involving the power of the State to force their views
on the rest of us.
9 comments:
Yep, don't 'cha just BOIL when they try and legislate their personal beliefs, or those of an "Action Group"?
SLW has been buying the "huamnely raised" chicken for quite some time, but it's a personal choice like yours.
DrJim
A personal choice. Exactly so!
Soooo... Eggs are about to get REAL pricy in CO is what you're sayin...
Old NFO
I see 18 for around $2 right now. I pay around $3 a dozen for cage free. Supply and demand? Non cage free will go to other states. Fast food prices will go up. Supermarket prices will go up. Poor people will get less protein.
I may be an insensitive old, fat, bald, stupid ugly white guy, but an egg is an egg. Eggland's Best, 5 times the price of the eggs you can get at Aldi for $0.48/dozen, they taste the same. To me.
Free range eggs, they still taste the same to me. Then again, I spent 10 years active duty army, and after eating at 'Mom's Mess Hall' for all those years, the experience wrecked my taste buds. So I am hardly the judge, here.
And just FYI, a chicken's brain is so tiny, the size of a grain of rice, that egg farm chickens and free range chickens have no idea that they are even alive, much less know the difference on how each other exists. I'm perfectly fine with egg farms, the more the better.
Mandating them out of existence ain't the America I grew up in.
The "cage free" eggs are still from chickens that stay inside the large egg farm buildings. The only difference is that they can walk around on the floor and their food and water is on the floor. "Free Range" are the ones out in a field where they are coyote bait. The local commercial egg farms have been planning on this for years. An New York (blargJ) animal rights group is behind this legislation. The egg farmers supported the legislation to mitigate the negative effects as much as possible. DAMN OUTSIDERS!!!
Fredd
To each his own.
Sisty
For all the things we don't agree on, we do agree on DAMN OUTSIDERS.
WTF....why does a New York group have ANY say in how eggs are produced in Colorado?
Oh, I get it....they spent lots of MONEY trying to buy influence and prove their moral superiority.
Never cared for New York. Upstate is pretty, and the people are good folks, but anytime I hear New York, it really means NYC, which is as bad a sh1thole as Chiraq, Lost Angeleez, and any other "Major Metropolitan Area".
You like living in the Big City? Fine with me. Stay there, but keep your damn nose out of normal people's business....
DrJim
Wasn't aware of the back story but don't doubt Sisty. There are so many groups who aren't stakeholders trying to tell rural folks how to live. One example involves sage grouse in the Gunnison River drainage. There are many, many more.
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