@very-rusty saidNoah already has 2 donkeys.
Wait............I already got a spot saved on that ark!!!
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@ghost-of-a-duke saidI guess that is going to cut a spot for you my friend! 😉 😛
Noah already has 2 donkeys.
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@very-rusty saidI know I’m a bit late but any chance I can “hop a ride”?🤔😉
I guess that is going to cut a spot for you my friend! 😉 😛
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@great-big-stees saidYou'll have to inquire to the ark builder. 😉
I know I’m a bit late but any chance I can “hop a ride”?🤔😉
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@great-big-stees saidI'll have rusty moon you
Speaking of moons...are the “Moonies” still around?🤔
he likes to show it
@drewnogal saidI was sad when I heard about the pigs, although I also wondered about the argument about 'having' to cull them. To some extent there was an element of not being able to keep them alive to grow a bit older just because of the standards dictated by supermarkets that the meat of older pigs won't quite meet. Like the potatoes that 'can't' be used just because they don't hit the size dictated by supermarkets.
And now it’s the poor pigs! Not that they will know any different as they’re bred to die anyway but what a waste that up to 50,000 young pigs may need to be culled with most of that animal flesh being ? incinerated because there isn’t the manpower to get them processed via the abattoirs.
Maybe half the reason we see food doing so many air miles and reliant on HGVs is that we buy into this idea that there is a standard that must be met and that local produce won't be as good.
I watched a documentary suggesting Cornish fishing was doing well out of London restaurants needing to look more 'locally' and discovering they could get freshly caught to order by risking dropping the standard that not everything on the menu is automatically available every day, but there was still a sense of fishermen going out in poor conditions through fear of being dropped if they didn't meet the standard.
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@relentless-red saidFor a while over here, some supermarkets were selling veggies that didn’t fit what people expected them to look like, at a discount. Nothing wrong with them except their “look”. Not sure what happened to that but I haven’t seen them around anymore.😢
I was sad when I heard about the pigs, although I also wondered about the argument about 'having' to cull them. To some extent there was an element of not being able to keep them alive to grow a bit older just because of the standards dictated by supermarkets that the meat of older pigs won't quite meet. Like the potatoes that 'can't' be used just because they don't hi ...[text shortened]... shermen going out in poor conditions through fear of being dropped if they didn't meet the standard.
@great-big-stees saidLike the types of orange that should naturally have green skin so they get dyed orange to meet the standard. If we want to survive on this planet I think we have to change our expectations.
For a while over here, some supermarkets were selling veggies that didn’t fit what people expected them to look like, at a discount. Nothing wrong with them except their “look”. Not sure what happened to that but I haven’t seen them around anymore.😢
If people expect vegetables to be covered in plastic because they have been misled into believing that produce was never fresh before plastic coating arrived then it's either destroy the oceans or get educated. If people want to see produce flown half way round the planet because what is on the menu should always be on the menu every day and every season, then the climate changes.