My daughter had a soccer game at Polytechnic HS here in FW last year and I'm pretty sure that a home that is adjacent to the field raises birds for cockfighting. If you're raising chickens for eggs (for a single family) you usually only have one rooster and he (the guy at the house that was also seen kicking his dogs) had a bunch.
They were crowing a lot, too, even as the sun was going down. I'm SO glad they're not my neighbors.
way to go texas
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From a recent NYTimes op-ed (log-in required):
I would have to agree with the author that this relationship makes a big difference.It can be said, awkwardly, that horses are America’s sacred cows. But our reverence stems not just from their noble equine attributes. Our ability to commune wordlessly, with a shift in the saddle, the flick of a rein, a whistle, forges a transcendent relationship. I have eaten all manner of improbable items, from antelope to waterbug, but the fact that horses so graciously did my bidding several decades ago means I won’t knowingly eat their kind (or dog, or dolphin) unless hard times make it a necessity.
its weird that eating a tiger or bear seems so strange and wrong (at least to me) but should actually be "better" because they are also predator animals. they would eat us, therefore its ok to eat them. and thats why it seems "mean" (to me) to eat a cow or chicken that would not be a natural enemy if they were free. a horse would also not eat a person.
... a dog might. hmm.
... a dog might. hmm.
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