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To: Alex MG who wrote (213455)	1/1/2013 9:58:03 PM
From: cosmicforce	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 541345

> do prefer to buy local farm raised organic fed meats and cage free products< We do too. One can buy organic foie gras. Organic is more about what goes into something than how it is raised. Meat is ugly and I always had compassion, even for the fish I caught - I would not leave them gaping in the creel even though many people do. Some of these people probably have an aversion to foie gras, ironically. It seems ineffective to overfeed to the point where the animal is ill - you are putting so much food in it is being rejected - no experienced producer is going to do that and make money. I have no experience with geese, but some breeds of chickens are intelligent creatures that like cages - they feel safe in them. They like to roam but will retreat to their nest (cage) much of the time. Our pet chicken had a favorite food - brace yourself - chicken. It was so greedy for it that it would pull it right out your sandwich if it smelled it. It didn't need encouragement. This was a little disturbing for me as a 10 year old. But for the chicken, it was just another source of high quality protein. My brother would not eat the eggs because the chicken ate bugs - and that was too weird for him. Good for the garden however. People put themselves in the place of the animal imagining themselves with a funnel down their throat... that is not rational. Each animal has things it can and can't do. Feeding cows to cows doesn't make sense, for instance. Horses, I've heard, reject food that has any kind of animal protein in it. Goats and pigs, forget about it. They don't care. shine.yahoo.com