For the love of bacon: Get the heck out of California
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We already have disappearing bacon here in the UK. At least once a week, there's bacon on my breakfast plate but within a minute or two... pfffftt! it's gone! Didn't know it was 'cos it was from a Californian pig, though... :wtf: (I do like a "full English" but for the sake of my cholesterol I limit my consumption...) EDIT: Having now actually read the article referenced ( :laugh: :laugh: ) I have to say about time too, then. If pigs are being kept in pens that are too small to turn around in, then good on California (although woefully late) to be doing something about it. If US farmers are still fighting it 3 years on and have done nothing about improving conditions, then maybe it would be a good thing for bacon to be priced out of the market entirely and for the pig industry to collapse. :|
I believe you are squealing a little too loudly. ;P If they are being bred and raised for slaughter then consumption, what difference does it make? It's good to be top of the food chain.
BLT please
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Given the bit I bolded before I'm having trouble reconciling that with your statement about a small cabal being actually responsible for this. There are two ways I can think of to square that circle: 1. A small cabal of voters overwhelmingly approved the measure, meaning a small cabal of californians are the only ones who vote, and you're suggesting that gives them immense power that other people don't have. 2. The election was stolen
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To bad we are not on 4chan. We could have a wonderful debate about this subject. Unfortunately, I am not allowed to speak about certain things anymore on this site or I get perma-banned. cheerio.
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Given the bit I bolded before I'm having trouble reconciling that with your statement about a small cabal being actually responsible for this. There are two ways I can think of to square that circle: 1. A small cabal of voters overwhelmingly approved the measure, meaning a small cabal of californians are the only ones who vote, and you're suggesting that gives them immense power that other people don't have. 2. The election was stolen
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Or: 3. Only a small proportion of the population bothered to vote on this proposition
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Or: 3. Only a small proportion of the population bothered to vote on this proposition
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows. -- 6079 Smith W.
That's fair, but if the voters turned out for it, and the other ones didn't, it doesn't strike me as bacon tyranny, and certainly no small powerful cabal. No, it's just some voters voted for a thing. People that if your theory holds - didn't even vote - don't like it. I'm failing to see how anything is untoward here.
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I believe you are squealing a little too loudly. ;P If they are being bred and raised for slaughter then consumption, what difference does it make? It's good to be top of the food chain.
BLT please
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Just one more stroke of madness from the Peoples Republic of California: :laugh: California pig rules could cause bacon to disappear[^]
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
I can fully agree with the majority of Californians :thumbsup: Seeing how animals are treated for a bit earth-destroying food just breaks my heart.
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I believe you are squealing a little too loudly. ;P If they are being bred and raised for slaughter then consumption, what difference does it make? It's good to be top of the food chain.
BLT please
Slow Eddie wrote:
If they are being bred and raised for slaughter then consumption, what difference does it make?
All animals - humans, pigs, cows or whatever - are destined to die. Once we are dead, we all are food for something (worms & bacteria, if nothing else). Just because an animal is destined for the table is no reason to torture it while alive.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows. -- 6079 Smith W.
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That's fair, but if the voters turned out for it, and the other ones didn't, it doesn't strike me as bacon tyranny, and certainly no small powerful cabal. No, it's just some voters voted for a thing. People that if your theory holds - didn't even vote - don't like it. I'm failing to see how anything is untoward here.
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With all due respect,* it doesn't fit their agenda. It's easier to say there's some small elite that somehow rigged these votes than to accept the fact that a majority of people does not share their beliefs ;) Also, Californians didn't vote against bacon, they probably love bacon. They voted for better treatment for animals. I also don't believe 96% of pig farmers in California will simply stop existing or go bankrupt because they currently don't comply with future regulations. Regulations for the meat industry are constantly changing and this one isn't new. That said, it does seem to be true that the media is, in general, more left than "the people". Probably because it takes a certain character to work in that field. Also, their statement may hold true for other events or regulations, just not this one, as far as I can see. This simple, yet effective, spell protects me from all personal grievances that my following statement may induce.
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Just one more stroke of madness from the Peoples Republic of California: :laugh: California pig rules could cause bacon to disappear[^]
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
It isn't as bad as you think. You have been eating facon and this is facon news. During my life I have seen food quality being rapidly degraded. Mostly this has happened via; 1. Genetics. Breeding animals that grow faster and put on the most bulk. No attention to quality or flavour. 2. Developing Cheap production methods and growing factory's like feed lots and battery hen systems. 3. Using food technology to process foods for consumption. In general the better life that an animal has then the better it tastes. It is a simple if clause really. Compare pasture bred Chicken, Beef or Lamb with battery or feed lot produced product. Let alone the health risks with feed lot and battery, the pasture bred product is so superior in taste. Like wise the best bacon comes from the happiest pigs, with regards to the actual baconator. I had a job a few years ago which was to plan and organise software driven systems to protect the assets of a large chicken farm that was really many chicken farms. They had issues with their battery hens where disease could wipe out generations. So when the laws changed to allow what was called free range as well as battery production they became really interested. Of course they always had a genetic pool of chooks ( Chickens) who lived a long distance away from the farms. This was the genetic bank of insurance. When I went to look at their free range facilitys I was shocked. It complied to the laws. But it was just a really large shed. Really bloody large. With thousands of them in there. It got so hot with all of them in there that they had to have an enormous evaporation cooling system else they would all perish in minutes. If the power failed then that was it. Also these free range chickens were neurotic and if there was a huge clap of thunder, then hundreds would drop dead at the shock. This is not normal chicken behaviour. Pasture bred chickens lay eggs that are heaps better than the "Ruled" free range ones or the battery ones. They taste like a game fowl and the stock that you can make is amazing. So don't despair. With these small changes, the bacon should taste better. .....and if they did it all better than those new laws, then it will taste even more amazing. Have you ever had bacon from a slow growing Pig that was prepared by an old fashioned bacon smoker? It costs more but OMG. Also that Company also had piggeries. They were like Covid-19 wards. If you wanted to go inside every one in had to wash up and dip their feet into disinfe
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Given the bit I bolded before I'm having trouble reconciling that with your statement about a small cabal being actually responsible for this. There are two ways I can think of to square that circle: 1. A small cabal of voters overwhelmingly approved the measure, meaning a small cabal of californians are the only ones who vote, and you're suggesting that gives them immense power that other people don't have. 2. The election was stolen
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honey the codewitch wrote:
the bit I bolded before I'm having trouble reconciling that with your statement about a small cabal being actually responsible for this.
Because all the voters voted for was "treat pigs fairly." None of them actually read the bill and understood how many square feet would now be required under the new law and what the other provisions were and even if they would have, they wouldn't have know what the current provisions were nor what it would cost or take for a farmer to meet the new provisions.
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honey the codewitch wrote:
the bit I bolded before I'm having trouble reconciling that with your statement about a small cabal being actually responsible for this.
Because all the voters voted for was "treat pigs fairly." None of them actually read the bill and understood how many square feet would now be required under the new law and what the other provisions were and even if they would have, they wouldn't have know what the current provisions were nor what it would cost or take for a farmer to meet the new provisions.
So we're just going to assume a bunch of people are hopelessly short sighted. I mean, not only is that depressing to consider, but it's really bad form to be wrong about that, as in danger- hubris will rogers - danger. Furthermore, it's just not likely. But you know what? If you're right, there will be an initiative soon to undo it. I just don't think you're right.
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With all due respect,* it doesn't fit their agenda. It's easier to say there's some small elite that somehow rigged these votes than to accept the fact that a majority of people does not share their beliefs ;) Also, Californians didn't vote against bacon, they probably love bacon. They voted for better treatment for animals. I also don't believe 96% of pig farmers in California will simply stop existing or go bankrupt because they currently don't comply with future regulations. Regulations for the meat industry are constantly changing and this one isn't new. That said, it does seem to be true that the media is, in general, more left than "the people". Probably because it takes a certain character to work in that field. Also, their statement may hold true for other events or regulations, just not this one, as far as I can see. This simple, yet effective, spell protects me from all personal grievances that my following statement may induce.
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I agree with most of this, although in the United States, when polled on an issue by issue basis, absent any political affiliation being attached to the issues, Americans are rather more "progressive" than they even give themselves credit for. ([^]) Also the media in the US is bought. It doesn't reflect the audience, only the base artifacts of what can be sold to or taken from the audience. On one hand you have traditional "news" media, which is anti person, and pro corporate, and then you have the right wing media, which acts as the propaganda arm of one of major parties, and an outlet for propaganda from hostile foreign countries. That's what we get for news. It doesn't reflect us. In terms of how it represents us, that's not accurate either. It represents us in ways that enable it to trick us or to use us and keep us servile and consumery, not in a way that is accurate.
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Given the bit I bolded before I'm having trouble reconciling that with your statement about a small cabal being actually responsible for this. There are two ways I can think of to square that circle: 1. A small cabal of voters overwhelmingly approved the measure, meaning a small cabal of californians are the only ones who vote, and you're suggesting that gives them immense power that other people don't have. 2. The election was stolen
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honey the codewitch wrote:
2. The election was stolen
Oh my! With that option you all but gave him a wet-dream way to explain away what he doesn't like. On the other hand, it's trendy: to all-too-many, the road to reality is that anything they don't like must be a lie.
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Just one more stroke of madness from the Peoples Republic of California: :laugh: California pig rules could cause bacon to disappear[^]
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
Pig farming is amongst the most disgusting of all - aside from the mass killings - the filth, pollution, and stench are almost indescribable. It should be required by law that bacon (and other pork eaters) live in areas surrounded by the pig farms, with sample outposts sown amongst their little estates to keep it "fresh" in their thoughts.
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein
"If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010
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honey the codewitch wrote:
2. The election was stolen
Oh my! With that option you all but gave him a wet-dream way to explain away what he doesn't like. On the other hand, it's trendy: to all-too-many, the road to reality is that anything they don't like must be a lie.
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein
"If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010
W∴ Balboos, GHB wrote:
it's trendy: to all-too-many, the road to reality is that anything they don't like must be a lie.
Lots of people in my country are soft these days - maybe they always were and I didn't notice. Don't like reality? Just cry fake news! Don't like the outcomes in your life? Pretend they didn't happen. Don't like a raging pandemic? Ignore it and die from it! It's ridiculous. And I wonder if at some point there's something to Douglas Adams' notion (expressed by way of Wonko the Sane) that civilization started to collapse when we put instructions on boxes of toothpicks. Like, is it too easy to get by now? Should we stop putting warning labels on things? What? Because I wonder about a world where you can grow up in utter denial of reality and manage to survive that.
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So we're just going to assume a bunch of people are hopelessly short sighted. I mean, not only is that depressing to consider, but it's really bad form to be wrong about that, as in danger- hubris will rogers - danger. Furthermore, it's just not likely. But you know what? If you're right, there will be an initiative soon to undo it. I just don't think you're right.
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honey the codewitch wrote:
So we're just going to assume a bunch of people are hopelessly short sighted.
It's not clear if you understood what I meant to mean. But from your response, it would appear that you think most of the voters understood exactly what they were voting for. Surely you do not believe that, do you?
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Pig farming is amongst the most disgusting of all - aside from the mass killings - the filth, pollution, and stench are almost indescribable. It should be required by law that bacon (and other pork eaters) live in areas surrounded by the pig farms, with sample outposts sown amongst their little estates to keep it "fresh" in their thoughts.
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein
"If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010
I'm here for lab grown/3d printed bacon. I'd eat that if they could make it not taste like band aids (*sideeyes* "turkey bacon") I don't mind eating meat - I didn't claw my way to the top of the food chain to be a vegetarian, but... 1. I do understand in the face of 8+ billion people that this is a very real problem. 2. I don't like eating things that aren't stupid. Stupid is food with legs. Chickens. Pigs on the other hand, are smart - I think they can contemplate future suffering, for example. I wonder what ever possessed an animal so intelligent to be so tasty. It's a tragedy. 3. As long as I can get bacon I probably will as my lack of impulse control where bacon is concerned is legendary.
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honey the codewitch wrote:
So we're just going to assume a bunch of people are hopelessly short sighted.
It's not clear if you understood what I meant to mean. But from your response, it would appear that you think most of the voters understood exactly what they were voting for. Surely you do not believe that, do you?
I think most people that bother to vote on an issue like making pig farming more humane realize that it makes it more expensive. I refuse to believe that people around me are cartoon parodies of people. They can understand cause and effect.
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I think most people that bother to vote on an issue like making pig farming more humane realize that it makes it more expensive. I refuse to believe that people around me are cartoon parodies of people. They can understand cause and effect.
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Pig farming is amongst the most disgusting of all - aside from the mass killings - the filth, pollution, and stench are almost indescribable. It should be required by law that bacon (and other pork eaters) live in areas surrounded by the pig farms, with sample outposts sown amongst their little estates to keep it "fresh" in their thoughts.
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein
"If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010
And those who use products that contain steel, aluminum, or copper should live beside open-pit mines.
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