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[chhotii]

I’ve been reading The Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan. Maybe I’ll rant at length about the economics of food production, industrial organic, nutrition, and the merits vs. demerits of vegetarianism, later.

Mom is planning a trip to Virginia, to show a friend around, do the tourist thing. When I heard that she’s planning to include Charlottesville in the itinerary, I said Great, you must take your friend to a nice restaurant there, one that has a real chef, and get some Polyface Farm chicken, and report back to me how it is. Someday I’ll loan her the book to read (she introduced me to Michael Pollan first, so I’m sure she’ll read this one) but not until after her Virginia trip, just in case the bit about the chickens eating the bugs out of the cow poop squicks her. I mean, really, the crap they feed livestock in industrial agriculture is much more disgusting, but at least in that case we are kept quite blissfully ignorant of it.

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but they're happy chickens

[cthulhia]

and, it keeps their eggs and meat within a good right balance of (known) nutrients, and reduces the bug population on the cows, keeping them more disease free, etc. etc.

My aunt and uncle live in charlottesville, and, I've been plotting to visit them in order to get some of the polyface farm foods. (even if he does have a jesus fish on his door).