Comments on Mutualist Blog: Free Market Anti-Capitalism: Agribusiness and the State

As a breeder and eater of my own livestock I agree...

2006-08-08T13:16:00.000-07:00

As a breeder and eater of my own livestock I agree that agribusiness is evil. The soils that they use to mass produce our food are leached of its nutirents and only produce due to tons of chemical fertilizers that are now leaching into the ground water.

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And just from my own based opinion, the majority of the southwest is wasted on cattle - one of the main problems with the southwest is that the cattle over graze and screw up the ecology - this is actually prime goat country, but americans are too prissy to see it.

I think readers of this thread will find this rece...

2006-05-25T23:57:00.000-07:00

I think readers of this thread will find this recent counterpunch article interesting.

On the rabbit issue, Australians have a different cultural view of rabbits; wild rabbits are a pest. Unfortunately wild rabbits are no longer a convenient cheap meat, since they are deliberately diseased for biological control these days.

On the small scale, guinea pigs are actually convenient to raise for meat in smallholdings - if you don't get the same cultural reservations. I doubt if they give the same problem as rabbits, of "rabbit starvation".

Rabbit meat is so lean that a rabbit-only diet is liable to cause dietary deficiency from insufficient fat and fat-soluble vitamins. The trick to beat this is to put their brains into the stew pot - nerve tissue needs a lot of associated fat to work.

For now I'm still putting my old page reference in my link until I find where my ISP has moved everything to this time.

You should be able to use google's cache of my publications page to be going on with.

Thanks for the info, Dr. Lenny. I never tried to ...

2006-05-23T13:22:00.000-07:00

Thanks for the info, Dr. Lenny. I never tried to raise rabbits for commercial sale, so I didn't know the regulatory disabilities imposed on them. It's a shame, because rabbit is a pretty cheap source of protein.

mmm - dahtah lemme cn spel. and what would merica...

2006-05-19T20:54:00.000-07:00

mmm - dahtah lemme cn spel. and what would merica do if tyson went under like enron?

Another place where this distortion can be seen is...

2006-05-19T20:52:00.000-07:00

Another place where this distortion can be seen is in the making of chicken as an everyday meat whereas eating rabbit is just killing the easter bunny. Yet ag costs of chickens are dampened by the economies of scale whereas rabbits need to be slaughtered in staiunless steel kitchen with inspection that costs more than the production cost of the meet. Plus most USDA inspectors are not certed in rabbit - and most abbatoires will not let you use their space nor their inspectors for prepping the carcass. So you cant eat bunny, just mass-produced fowl.

Salatin's article has so much explanatory power, i...

2006-05-18T19:34:00.000-07:00

Salatin's article has so much explanatory power, it's amazing. This is the essential pattern of everything that's wrong with big government.