23 horses in a row. 23 horses begging for food and water. 23 horses eating dirt, manure and brush. And then there were none.
Howard Vlieger, a third generation farmer from Iowa, will be speaking in Eastern Washington to share information about the impacts of genetically engineered crops on farming operations, livestock and weeds. Mr Vlieger has studied genetically engineered (GE) crops since 1994. The presentations are FREE and open to the public.
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Whether it is big or small, complex or simple, all life is precious, right down to one little baby gosling, fresh from the egg. And as I discovered during my journey on the road to raising Little E.D. the Endurance Goose, there is a wealth of knowledge to be had just from the simple task of learning to see through the eyes of a goose.
This new supposedly “humane” CAFO method requires rendering the chickens blind by “removing the cerebral cortex of the chicken” so that “its sensory perceptions are removed. It can be produced in a denser condition while remaining alive, and oblivious.
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