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  free range slaughter?

  If these free-range organic chickens are being slaughtered by a competent farmer and sold to families who can afford to drive out to the farm and pick them up, the salmonella (and campylobacter) risk is probably reduced.  In that case, the farmer and the buyer are violating federal law.  All chicken carcasses sold to the public MUST BY LAW go through a USDA-inspected facility.  I only know one person who eats the chickens he raises.

  In my always-humble opinion, food is something you should be able to eat.  You shouldn't have to wash it off your hands and knives after you cut it for fear of illness.

  I have a bright idea, Kellyann!  Teach people to grow the most expensive fruits in their own homes.  Strawberries do great on an apartment balcony.  It can be as easy as buying a bag of potting soil, lying it on its side, cutting it open, putting some seeds in, and watering them every few days.On Cheap-chicken ad from KFC hides true cost of food; here's a tastier, low-cost alternative posted 9 months ago 17 Responses

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  ...am I missing the punchline on this one?

  ...so instead of paying KFC to deep-fry CAFO-raised pre-breaded chicken body parts, we should buy raw CAFO-raised chicken carcasses, chop them up (exposing our families to EVEN MORE salmonella), and cook the body parts ourselves?  Is this Grist's idea of an April Fool's joke?  That holiday is still the first of April, right?

  This is why the right-wingers refer to this kind of mindset as "hippy crap."  We might as well say that it's okay to buy Lay's Potato Chips from your local grocer, but you're a bad person if you buy the same bag of Lay's Potato Chips from your local Wal-Mart Supercenter.  You can put organic ketchup on either one!

  Mr. Friese seems too intelligent to honestly believe the "often-undocumented" workers who slaughter the chickens he buys are magically NOT among the "1 in 3" who "is injured to the point of hospitalization every year."  How does the solution he suggests make an improvement?  Granted, there is no way to put a dollar value on the family time spent preparing a meal together.  Those are the moment that make you immortal through the memories of your children.

  ...but how about a healthy alternative?  Instead of replacing the breading and sauce, let's replace the whole system!  Let's not force the working poor to do our dirty work for us, dehumanizing, desensitizing, and hospitalizing them at the same time.  After all, if you're going to sell a chicken carcass, it MUST BY LAW go through a USDA-approved slaughterhouse.

  This was a really disturbing article.On Cheap-chicken ad from KFC hides true cost of food; here's a tastier, low-cost alternative posted 9 months ago 17 Responses

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  haha, NBC has a dirty mind!

  I didn't realize at first that the "list of editing requests" came from NBC!  It's not the asparagus's fault that it looks so phallic!  That's just anti-vegetable discrimination!On Did NBC squash PETA corn-porn? posted 9 months, 2 weeks ago 44 Responses

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  hardly in good taste...

  It's hardly in good taste, but I fail to see where decency rules were violated.  How is this any more perverse than using scantily-clad women to sell cars and boats?  Because you can see the womens' tongues?!

  Maybe the guys and gals exploiting sexy women to sell cars and boats don't get shut out of major media outlets by the other advertisers.  If I didn't have better things to do, I would watch the superbowl and count how many of the advertisers are promoting the exploitation of animals.
  On Did NBC squash PETA corn-porn? posted 9 months, 2 weeks ago 44 Responses

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  How about putting it on Craigslist?

  If you sell the card on Craigslist or eBay, someone who would have otherwise handed cash to the store uses your gift card.  80 cents on the dollar is a typical price you can get for gift cards at the big-box retailers (so $40 for a $50 card).  I've done this several times.

  The obvious downside is that the buyer is getting a 20% discount on a new 8-foot-tall PVC inflatable snowman/snow globe from Wal-Mart.On Umbra on gift cards posted 9 months, 3 weeks ago 10 Responses