View Full Version : ain't that nice of burger king
sway2sway
03-30-2007, 03:10 PM
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/28/business/28burger.html?_r=1&bl&ex=1175400000&en=d3012547396da712&ei=5087%0A&oref=slogin
Burger King is going to change it's policy to phase out buying eggs and pork from caged animals. The percentages will start small and increase as the producers are able to change over, while still maintaining competetive pricing. The changes also include more humane ways of slaughtering the critters.
I think this is wonderful, in that it will take a huge consumer of these products demanding these changes, before the prices will become more comparable in the grocery store. I think many people would chose more humane and socially responsible products if the price was not such an issue.
Like eggs here, cost $2.50 if you get the grocery store brand-meaning kept in cages, fed who knows what? To get the eggs that are free range, fed a natural vegetarian diet, costs almost $5.00.
power to the people, or maybe power to the chickens, if only they could stage a pecking and scratching revolt around the world, then we'd see something (a hella lot o' bandaids)
yeah that's pretty cool. Over hear it's about £1 for say 10 free range eggs, 48p for 6 caged.....i don't work in a supermarket :rolleyes:
hah Hithcock strikes again. If all the birds did suddenly revolt we'd be screwed, a few seaguls could probably take me out no probs and where I live they're friggin massive! Owls would be the dictators, guiding the sparrow infantry. hah
sway2sway
04-01-2007, 04:13 PM
hee, hee, for some reason when my mind starts to drift to empty in the last couple days, I start to imagine this bird army/squadron/platoon. Various species in the air, on land, on water, wearing different little uniforms, different weapons at their disposal. Trying to sort out which birds would best go with which others. what do you think crows are best suited for? the ones by my house, drop walnuts from great height onto the road. the blue jays sometimes gang up on the cat, divebombing his lil' furry ass.
hah hah....I think the crows are just crazy evil mercenaries, the don't have specific roles but they'll happily do whatever the owls want for the price of a few walnuts. Eagles and peregrine falcons and what not are the commandos i rekon, stealth attacks from the sky.
Don't think we have blue jays here. sounds like attacking cats is creating a diversion for some other more apocalyptic invasion by hoards of sparrows or something. And although I'm pretty damn sure I could take on a swan no problem I hear they can break a man's arm so I'd put them as the Royal Honour Guard.
...........hah :)
sway2sway
04-01-2007, 04:55 PM
:)
have you seen a canadian goose? last time I took my dtr to this park to feed birds, ducks, swans, canadian geese (of which since there has been a bylaw (don't feed) implemented to prevent this proliferation of birds, in essence to quash the beginning of the bird revolt. An attempt to prevent congregation, soon a curfew will be imposed, mass burnings of all field guides to bird watching and skewing of all historical accounts of ornithology, the genesis of another witch hunt)
oops, went off a little there, my point was these geese will chase you and your bag of bread crusts, until you must take refuge atop a picnic table, better yet atop the monkey bars, they can't manage those.
nothing like a good tangent. Pretty sure those geese migrate here for a little while. Fools, what's in england to look at that isn;t elsewhere. They're clearly conspiring with the other fresh water species from international waters. The seaguls here are like those geese. All the tourists take the brunt of their assault in the summer. Merrily walking along munching a pasty when out of nowhere this shadow appears over their shoulder and devours their entire meal mid-air before their eyes. These birds are almost too skilled at it, pretty much rats with wings. Or shite hawks as my mate's granddad calls them.
watching planet earth the other day, or some other attenbrough thing; there was this flock of birds - i forget where and what sort they were - (hah) but the point is some of their flocks take up to 5 hours to fly overhead! 5 frggin hours!!!! now that's a force to be reckoned with.
P.S. It might have been 4 hours...but still :P
sway2sway
04-03-2007, 02:13 AM
tangents=life
some more than others though, I guess
honestly, though, I don't really like birds much. I hate to see them in cages, I like to see them way up high in the sky, so high that you can't really tell what kind they are. If I had to pick a favorite bird, I'd pick the seagull and I think that is mostly because it makes me think of the ocean, as opposed to the inherant qualities of a seagull (squawky french fry stealers). I do not like alligator clips with feathers. I do not like to collect feathers. I don't like to pick a feather up off the ground and inspect it. I don't really like people to touch me with their toes either. In both cases, some things are better and cuter from afar. If the birds did take over the world and kept us in their dominion to do with us however they should see fit (lord have mercy), I might have to kill myself, as the thought of them ruffling their feathers over me, or pecking morse code messages into the side of my head, or spending my days in a skanky nest keeping eggs warm while they rule the world...I just can't bear the thought.