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I wish the sow gets to have moments with her children. Why can’t they be set free as a family outdoors until the piglets become 8 to 12 weeks old. Many animals in the wild get to do that.
if you are living in a town,can you do like backyard farming with just couple of cow??any law you know that limits us for having livestock in our backyard??
It’s crazy how detached we are from our food. Until you really stop to think about it, it’s easy to see the stuff at the grocery store as things that just exist “as they are”, boxed and packaged. It’s interesting to look up things like oats or cashews, and learn the context for how they sprout up in nature and are harvested/processed. Also kinda crazy how today we still eat the same things humans hundreds or thousand years ago also ate. The same exact animals, grains, regional vegetables, etc... It’s true that many of those fruits/vegetables and livestock animals have been selectively grown or modified over time to be larger or fit a certain desirable quality, like tomatoes or bananas. But it’s still all fundamentally the same plants or animals that are made into the same things our ancestors made, like bread or wine or what have you. The fact that things like wheat, honey, fish, etc are referenced in places like the Bible, medieval manuscripts, and ancient Greek or Chinese texts is pretty mindblowing if you think about it. They’re the writings and observations of ancient people whose lives are so removed from the modern life we know, but they harvested and subsisted on the same plants and animals we still eat today.
I didn't see any grass or steams for the cows, just cement and rather dirty wet cement. When I was growing up the neighboring dairy farm put their cows out everyday into a pasture with green grass and a running stream.
