periol
periol wrote
Two chicken-related items. I used to work on a farm in Missouri.
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One day we found a chicken cage that had fallen off a truck during transport, with a chicken in it. We picked it up and put it in the cab of the truck, but the smell was so bad we just put it in the bed. When we got to the farm we let the chicken out and tried to acclimate it to not living in a cage. After less than an hour one of it's legs broke just trying to walk around. We had to put it down, and couldn't even use the meat it was so rancid.
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The farm was close to some factory chicken farms. I used to run several mile loops, and one day I wound up running by these buildings. The smell from over a hundred yards away was so overpowering that I started choking and vomited right by the gate.
I have never looked at chickens or eggs the same since.
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Reply to comment by chaos in Are you a vegan or a carnist and would you eat lab grown meat? by theblackcat
Agreed, much of my willingness to eat it depends on it not being a resource-intensive process.
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all the isms
periol wrote
I was an ethical vegan for a few years but love dairy a bit too much so now I'm only a vegetarian, and I would definitely eat ethically-grown lab meat if it tasted alright. Wouldn't be foundational in my diet or anything though.
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Reply to Banning Uber means taking London away from broke millennials like me and putting it back into the hands of the rich by AlexanderReidRoss
hilarious considering London has a very good public transit system
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Reply to comment by mister_the_loaf in Most phones have built in FM radios but they're disabled by the companies because then consumers wouldn't pay for online music subscriptions by J7383
Gonna have to disagree with you. Sure, radio stations suck with their commercials, but there would be way fewer people paying for streaming music if they knew they could just open an app on their phone and play the radio. I would never pay either way, but radio is convenient and a known entity for people, even with the commercials. How else were the tech companies going to do their 'disrupting'?
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Reply to comment by 23i in Most phones have built in FM radios but they're disabled by the companies because then consumers wouldn't pay for online music subscriptions by J7383
Download the NextRadio app - if the chip isn't disabled it should work, and it will tell you right away if it's compatible with your phone. Uses your headphones as antenna. In the US works well w/ Sprint, YMMV on other carriers.
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