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raincoaster
07/01/09

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If it died of some disease, I can totally understand not eating it, but you and I all know that this is a woman who composts her leftovers, so what's the difference whether or not the bird was cooked before it goes into the bin?
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SaraRueful
06/30/09

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Did anyone else see Tom Selleck on The Daily Show a while back? He was talking about how one of the cows on his farm died, and his wife and daughter loved it like a pet so he had to have it cremated instead of eating it. The big laugh came when he was describing how HUGE the vat of ashes was.
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HiredGoons
06/30/09

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No is addressing the most important question here: why did it cross the road?
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Recently Newly Redundant
06/30/09

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Sadly, I can clarify the tale of Chicken Orlean. There was a previous set of chickens, one of whom got sick and turned out to have some freaky chicken disease. That chicken was put down and cremated. Meanwhile some new chickens were bought, who are thus far healthy.

(A chronicle of the Orlean chickens really would make a good article.)
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Lizawithazee
06/30/09

@Recently Newly Redundant: That IS a sad tale. I prefer the wanton speculative tales over the sad reality.

BTW there is a proposed federal regulation from the USDA, the National Animal Identification System (NAIS) that would require all livestock, even backyard chickens, to be radio-tagged or micro-chipped and records kept and reports made to the USDA tracking each and every animal.

So, if anyone asks you about it, tell them it's a bad idea! Thank you.
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Robert Synnott
06/30/09

@Lizawithazee: Er, why is it a bad idea? Sounds like it would be useful for preventing such chicken-plagues...
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Lizawithazee
06/30/09

@Robert Synnott: It's being pushed by the huge farms, who are feeling economically threatened by smaller operations (which are tiny in comparison, output-wise, and are no real threat to their overall market size). The factory farm people wrote the whole thing-- they don't have to tag each animal, only one tag per thousands of animals. But small farmers and backyard animal keepers have to tag each one.

If you're trying to have an actual small family farm, the cost will be wildly prohibitive. If you're just a suburban chicken keeper, it forces you to do a lot of paperwork and pay someone to microchip your birds.

It's designed specifically to kill and control potential competition, not to protect the integrity of the food chain.

The diseases are brought and spread by the big operations anyway. Not by my little flock of hens or Trashtastic's goat.
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TedSez
06/30/09

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I'm pretty sure Chicken Orlean is what they serve at Popeye's.
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FerdinandPorcupine
06/30/09

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One of mine got out last week, and the dog killed it. So I put it in a garbage bag and put it in the trash. Cremate a chicken? What? I still feel bad for not gutting and plucking it (but it was 5:30 am and I just wasn't up for it). Sheesh. People who would have a chicken cremated shouldn't have livestock.
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Lizawithazee
06/30/09

@FerdinandPorcupine: These are the same people who say their chickens come up to them and "want to be petted" even though they are really actually making themselves sexually available to the person.
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City_Dater
06/30/09

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Isn't the whole point of raising chickens that you eventually "cremate" them at home, perhaps rubbed with butter and stuffed with some lemons and rosemary?
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MrInBetween
06/30/09

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Were there any Anne Hoffman sightings in Columbia County on Sunday?
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mmstk101
06/30/09

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She was probably trying to twitter something inane, and inadvertently stepped on poor Laroche, killing him instantly. Just one more senseless death at the hands of the twitterati.
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Lizawithazee
06/30/09

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If it didn't come back, what was there to cremate?
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Lizawithazee
06/30/09

@Lizawithazee: Oh, I see. It came back and she chased it with an axe and killed it out of spite.
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Richard Lawson
06/30/09

@Lizawithazee: Just another day in Columbia County.
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