sauromatian wrote:Occasionally one of my clients in publishing sends me to their home office in Iowa City. It's a rural area, beautiful surroundings, but the whole region smells terrible. This is particularly true of the park surrounding a reservoir, which is supposed to be a get-away from the grime of the city but smells even worse.The problem is the hog lagoons. When animals are kept in massive quantity in a small space, their feces becomes concentrated too, producing some really noxious fumes. With the recent floods, all of it has been washed everywhere.This was not a problem when a given number of animals were kept in open spaces, with enough ground to absorb it. You don't have to be a hippy to hate the sewer smell everywhere, believe me.
The worst hog-waste spill in North Carolina's history, in June of this year, sent 25 million gallons of soupy red hog manure gushing onto the state's roads, tobacco and soybean fields, and into the New River. A dike surrounding an eight-acre receptacle for hog waste at Oceanview Farms in Onslow County collapsed after a large rainfall, threatening fish life in the river as well as crops and area ground water.
Badmike wrote:Bus, by this logic the chocolate cheesecake I had for breakfast must be doing me a world of good, because it was delicious! The truth is there has never been shown to be any benefit, healthwise, from eating free range meat or organic vegetables. .... Mike B.
sauromatian wrote:I would tend to agree in regards organic veggies, but if you can indulge me on one more point over free-range livestock-Occasionally one of my clients in publishing sends me to their home office in Iowa City. It's a rural area, beautiful surroundings, but the whole region smells terrible. This is particularly true of the park surrounding a reservoir, which is supposed to be a get-away from the grime of the city but smells even worse.The problem is the hog lagoons. When animals are kept in massive quantity in a small space, their feces becomes concentrated too, producing some really noxious fumes. With the recent floods, all of it has been washed everywhere.This was not a problem when a given number of animals were kept in open spaces, with enough ground to absorb it. You don't have to be a hippy to hate the sewer smell everywhere, believe me.
killjoy32 wrote:brussel sprouts? them along with butter beans are THE WORST kind of food that ever existed. you couldnt pay me millions to eat that stuff....sheesh i feel like hurling just thinking about them.
Badmike wrote:That's my only "beef" with the subject, that people are misled about what falls under the heading "free range".
sauromatian wrote:This discussion reminds me of veggies in the 70s. I was too young to pay attention to vegetables at the time, but I remember adults complaining about how flavorless stuff like tomatoes had become. Apparently farmers were planting only the largest & most brightly color varieties, taste be damned.
serleran wrote:So, what happens at this board when you hit 1000 posts? Not that I'm there yet (still need around 80) but it would be nice to know if I need a second soul.
serleran wrote:Sweet. I'll then join you for some fish and chips, tea, and biscuits.
killjoy32 wrote:cool as long as sprouts are not involved
Kingofpain89 wrote:Or gravy.
killjoy32 wrote:i can do gravy john, just not with feckin biscuits!eeeeeeeeeew
Badmike wrote:I say dip them in pesticide, spray them with fast growing fertilizer and chemicals, and kill all those nasty little bugs, my intestines will sort it all out...
mandalaymoon wrote:Well, you can always take a can of Raid, empty the liquid contents into a glass and then bottoms up!
Badmike wrote:I think I've drank worse in my time.... Mike B.
