Comments | erudito: A farmer bites back

erudito

A farmer bites back

Aug 05, 2009 07:47

One of the features of modern life is the selling of critiques of aspects of modern life to people who are completely isolated from those said aspects or from the consequences of acting on those critiques. So, for example, inner city "green" settlement has been known to be quite keen on policies that kill jobs in rural and provincial areas and ( Read more... )

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omnot August 4 2009, 22:54:56 UTC

Wow. Four thousand turkeys died from an urban legend!

pearl August 5 2009, 00:11:00 UTC

Maybe they were specially bred turkeys, crossed with a flatfish? So they started off with eyes on either side of their heads, but were just old enough for the eyes to migrate and develop binocular vision?

Exposure erudito August 5 2009, 05:20:32 UTC

Being turkey chicks, they might actually have died of exposure. That is the sort of detail that might be misremembered in local lore.

Re: Exposure pearl August 5 2009, 21:28:49 UTC

Yes, but as omnot and infonerd both pointed out below, people who have even the smallest amount of agricultural experience (who admittedly, probably aren't the target audience) aren't going to exactly support (and disseminate) what this guy is writing, because of that very obvious error.

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paradigmshifty August 5 2009, 01:07:34 UTC

It's difficult to take the rest of the article's statements seriously when it includes the urban legend about drowning turkeys not only as fact, but as personally witnessed fact. It puts a very large hole in the writer's credibility.

omnot August 5 2009, 04:15:43 UTC

Having been raised by family farmers and as I hold strong opinions about the need to protect farmers rather than lambaste them, I was reading this with some interest. That interest soured to contempt when the writer claimed to have witnessed a fallacious tragedy then proceeded to cite it as justification for intensive farming techniques. I might not bother to read the rest of his article. I doubt it is worth my time.

Exposure erudito August 5 2009, 05:22:10 UTC

As I note in a comment above, being turkey chicks they might have died of exposure. That strikes me as the sort of detail that might be misremembered or mischaracterised in local lore.

Re: Exposure paradigmshifty August 8 2009, 15:03:46 UTC

Possibly, though I must profess to doubt. It still doesn't help his credibility.