congrats to the ARAs who got facebook to ban...

pleisto-cene:

mad-hare:
pangur-and-grim:
gendercontender:
tinysaurus-rex:
congrats to the ARAs who got facebook to ban animal sales. shortly before then, many rare heritage chicken breeds were getting much needed attention to save the breeds thanks to various agricultural facebook pages highligting them. but now, with the ban of animal sales on facebook, those heritage breeds have become damn near impossible to find again. guess what that means? the breeds will begin dying out again. people will go back to hatcheries who mass produce unhealthy chicken breeds in horrible conditions. folks will always buy chickens, but now instead of buying them from ethical breeders on facebook they’ll be supporting a terrible industry, woohoo.
hope y’all are proud.
We are, actually!
Slowly but surely your industry will go extinct, just like those breeds of chicken!
thanks for the love and attention uwu
I think this interaction is very important for people to see.
animal welfare advocates work to make sure heritage, healthy breeds survive as an alternative to corporate breeds like the Cornish X, which grow so quickly that their legs eventually collapse under their own ballooning flesh. heritage breeds like the Brahma, Cochin, and Legbar (left to right below) grow and lay at a normal life, and can happily scratch about, dig holes in your grass to nap in, rip the leaves off your garden plants one by one, and make very funny sounds with their functional beautiful bodies, all while providing you with food.
‘animal rights’ advocates like @gendercontender would prefer a world in which the relationship between chickens and their keepers (and the chickens themselves) did not exist. I would go ask Tallgeese, Yennefer, Anzu, Milkshake, Henny and Perchy what they think of all this, but fortunately they’re too busy tearing apart a fresh green head of lettuce like the tiny funny velociraptors they are.
Also literally every single accomplishment of animal rights activists seems to do exponentially more damage to the small guy than the big guy. Broiler crosses are still being produced by the billion in an essentially untouchable industry but good job ruining farmer joe schmoe and his government allowed maximum of 99 layers (Canadian law thanks to quota). The political policy equivalent of releasing cane toads to take down cane beetles or w/e. Its great that you feel good about yourselves and you hate animal agriculture but you can do shit all to stop the cooperate poultry industry so have fun picking on the little guy I guess.
By the way, the facebook rule ONLY targets small individual breeders, because if you are selling animals tied to a registered business you’re allowed to post them on facebook. That’s why you still see pet stores selling puppies, auction houses listing dairy cattle, registered horse farms selling foals, on Facebook. A USDA licensed puppy mill (that’s a thing and the USDA licence does not mean it’s a nice place) can post and sell their puppies on Facebook while a hobbyist dog breeder who does it for love and invests every dollar back into health testing and proper care cannot. It only affects hobbyists.
A big reason I’ve sort of been turning anti-law/rules lately, every “well meaning” law only harms poor individuals and never huge companies. Less restrictions but more people thinking for themselves, please.
Every animal breed - and cultivar of plant, for that matter- is more than just a subset of the species that looks a little different from the next. They are even more than separate reservoirs of genetic diversity, something vital to the continued existence of all domestic things (and they will continue, no matter what others do). Each one is a chapter of the human story, of how someone or someones had a need or a dream and filled it with a new living thing shaped with an eye for form and function, often beauty, and then with necessity, with pride, with love, we kept this piece of the story alive beside us. To willingly participate in their destruction destroys more than a domestic race. It extinguishes living culture. It is akin to burning tapestries. They can be reconstructed, but they cannot be replaced.
Do what you can- not everyone can keep livestock, and the prices of the rarest and their product can be steep, but anyone can grow a heritage tomato in their window.