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    I was browsing the local grocery store, and ran across a brand of egg that had this slogan on its container: Vegetarian fed hens and I thought to myself "Where did they get the vegetarians to feed them with? Do they have a vegetarian ranch, or are they vegetarians from the wild for wild chickens?" [Edit: spell check can't tell between vegetarians and veterinarians!]

    A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, navigate a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects! - Lazarus Long

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      I was browsing the local grocery store, and ran across a brand of egg that had this slogan on its container: Vegetarian fed hens and I thought to myself "Where did they get the vegetarians to feed them with? Do they have a vegetarian ranch, or are they vegetarians from the wild for wild chickens?" [Edit: spell check can't tell between vegetarians and veterinarians!]

      A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, navigate a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects! - Lazarus Long

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        I was browsing the local grocery store, and ran across a brand of egg that had this slogan on its container: Vegetarian fed hens and I thought to myself "Where did they get the vegetarians to feed them with? Do they have a vegetarian ranch, or are they vegetarians from the wild for wild chickens?" [Edit: spell check can't tell between vegetarians and veterinarians!]

        A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, navigate a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects! - Lazarus Long

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        stoneyowl2 wrote:

        Where did they get the veterinarians to feed them with?

        It's not hard to catch vegetarians. They have no muscle and can't put up a fight. Plus, no one misses them. :-D

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          stoneyowl2 wrote:

          Where did they get the veterinarians to feed them with?

          It's not hard to catch vegetarians. They have no muscle and can't put up a fight. Plus, no one misses them. :-D

          Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other. Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it. Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.

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          ZurdoDev wrote:

          Plus, no one misses them.

          I would miss Sander, regardless of his eating-habits.

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            I was browsing the local grocery store, and ran across a brand of egg that had this slogan on its container: Vegetarian fed hens and I thought to myself "Where did they get the vegetarians to feed them with? Do they have a vegetarian ranch, or are they vegetarians from the wild for wild chickens?" [Edit: spell check can't tell between vegetarians and veterinarians!]

            A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, navigate a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects! - Lazarus Long

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            Sounds like a hen that is guaranteed to not go outside, and is purely fed grains or corn. Chickens like to dig for proteins. Can't dig through concrete, so a non-outside chicken can be guaranteed to be raised vegetarian. Wordsmithing.

            Bastard Programmer from Hell :suss: If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^] "If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.

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              Sounds like a hen that is guaranteed to not go outside, and is purely fed grains or corn. Chickens like to dig for proteins. Can't dig through concrete, so a non-outside chicken can be guaranteed to be raised vegetarian. Wordsmithing.

              Bastard Programmer from Hell :suss: If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^] "If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.

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              Rick York
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              Chickens are vegetarians so we don't have to be.

              "They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"

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                Chickens are vegetarians so we don't have to be.

                "They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"

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                Chickens aren't vegetarian, only if they're fed nothing else and prohibited to forage.

                Bastard Programmer from Hell :suss: If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^] "If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.

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                  I was browsing the local grocery store, and ran across a brand of egg that had this slogan on its container: Vegetarian fed hens and I thought to myself "Where did they get the vegetarians to feed them with? Do they have a vegetarian ranch, or are they vegetarians from the wild for wild chickens?" [Edit: spell check can't tell between vegetarians and veterinarians!]

                  A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, navigate a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects! - Lazarus Long

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                  They used to grind beef and feed it to cows, which was one way "Mad Cow Disease" was spread. These chickens don't eat other chickens I take it.

                  It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it. ― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food

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                    Chickens are vegetarians so we don't have to be.

                    "They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"

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                    A friend of mine calls himself a "secondary vegetarian": He only eats meat of herbivorous animals.

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                      They used to grind beef and feed it to cows, which was one way "Mad Cow Disease" was spread. These chickens don't eat other chickens I take it.

                      It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it. ― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food

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                      Gerry Schmitz wrote:

                      These chickens don't eat other chickens I take it.

                      I read somewhere that chicken grown in 42-63 days will have very litte taste of chicken unless they are fed waste meat from other chicken. Also, to get enough calcium to develop their skeleton that fast, the feed contains the ground bones of slaughtered chicken; this also contributes to the taste. And still, they never taste anything like a hen (as opposed to a chicken) did in the old days! Tastewise, chicken is to 95% nothing but a substrate for the taste of spices. The day I retire, I might start breeding slow-grow chicken/hens in the back yard to get myself some old style hen meat. Same with eggs: The number of eggs per hen has almost tripled since the 1980s. So the same total amount of taste is spread out on three times as many eggs, with one third on each. Two weeks ago I bought myself a (butchered) sheep - I do not want the mild, delicate lamb meat, but something with a firm, strong taste. Something like game. This sheep was of a special "wild" breed, with a double jacket of wool so they can live outdoors through the winter, eating wild grass, shrubs and berries. The meet gets tasty even though the are not fed ground mutton!

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                        ZurdoDev wrote:

                        Plus, no one misses them.

                        I would miss Sander, regardless of his eating-habits.

                        Bastard Programmer from Hell :suss: If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^] "If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.

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                        Eddy Vluggen wrote:

                        I would miss Sander

                        That's adorable. ;)

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                          Sounds like a hen that is guaranteed to not go outside, and is purely fed grains or corn. Chickens like to dig for proteins. Can't dig through concrete, so a non-outside chicken can be guaranteed to be raised vegetarian. Wordsmithing.

                          Bastard Programmer from Hell :suss: If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^] "If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.

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                          Eddy Vluggen wrote:

                          Wordsmithing

                          Or "spin". Yeah, very likely a way to put a positive light on chickens which aren't free-range. Similarly, some years back KFC was advertising that their chicken parts were now something like a third larger than previously... which I took to mean that they were buying larger, older, tougher chickens and trying to make them sound more desirable.

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