Chicken Day Cancelled
Garden Angel | 12.06.2010 06:59 | Animal Liberation | Climate Chaos | Health | Oxford
We have realised that bringing animals or birds to the garden is not acceptable to many of those who support and use this space for its original purposes of creating a place of peace and quiet to relax, to grow food for all and learn about sustainable living. Many do not consider the use of animals sustainable and their (ab)use here is therefore not relaxing.
We are sorry for the short notice and hope you will understand that this garden was created for all, not only for those who think that it is ok to use animals for our own purposes.
Keep ex-battery hens and thereby extenting their lives and improving their quality of life is an admirable thing to do. There is the issue of what to do with the eggs, some people will eat them others will use them to feed to other kept animals ie cats and perhaps dogs which people will feed anyway, perhaps donating them to an animal sanctuary.
Hens eggs are not designed for human health and can contribute to the cause of many of the 'western' diseases such as dementure and diabetes by enveloping the myolin sheath around brain tissue. Think of 5 a day Margaret Thatcher. An occasional egg, perhaps one or two a year for a human probably would on its own not do too much harm.
One of the aims of this garden was show sustainability and using animals as a food source for humans is not sustainable. I'm sure that organic home reared animals are somewhat better than factory farmed but they must still be fed themselves until they are killed and then fed to humans. 90 to 95% of all the soya grown in the world is grown to feed to animals in some form. Much of the corn grown in the world is grown as animal feed. Much of these crops are then turned into unrecognisable animal feed products such as maltodextrin and sweetening syrups. Much of this is GM. These crops have usually had masses of pesticides and fertilisers put on them, much of which have been derived from oil.
The water usage for 'growing' most animals is very high and the resultant effluent contaminates the land.
Let's keep this garden pure and free from all this pollution. Let us keep it a place for all to enjoy, not just some.
Thank you
Keep ex-battery hens and thereby extenting their lives and improving their quality of life is an admirable thing to do. There is the issue of what to do with the eggs, some people will eat them others will use them to feed to other kept animals ie cats and perhaps dogs which people will feed anyway, perhaps donating them to an animal sanctuary.
Hens eggs are not designed for human health and can contribute to the cause of many of the 'western' diseases such as dementure and diabetes by enveloping the myolin sheath around brain tissue. Think of 5 a day Margaret Thatcher. An occasional egg, perhaps one or two a year for a human probably would on its own not do too much harm.
One of the aims of this garden was show sustainability and using animals as a food source for humans is not sustainable. I'm sure that organic home reared animals are somewhat better than factory farmed but they must still be fed themselves until they are killed and then fed to humans. 90 to 95% of all the soya grown in the world is grown to feed to animals in some form. Much of the corn grown in the world is grown as animal feed. Much of these crops are then turned into unrecognisable animal feed products such as maltodextrin and sweetening syrups. Much of this is GM. These crops have usually had masses of pesticides and fertilisers put on them, much of which have been derived from oil.
The water usage for 'growing' most animals is very high and the resultant effluent contaminates the land.
Let's keep this garden pure and free from all this pollution. Let us keep it a place for all to enjoy, not just some.
Thank you
Garden Angel
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Stop abusing Indymedia
16.06.2010 16:55
The original story is clearly false - the event did go ahead (
http://www.barrackslanegarden.org.uk/news.php). As such, it clearly breaks the Indymedia publishing guidelines by being inaccurate ( http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/oxford/static/editorial.html).
Indymedia is for people to publish their own news, and for others to make comments about it. It is not a platform to try and disrupt other people's stories that you disagree with. If it's used in this way, it will become devalued as people will have no idea on whether a story is genuine or not. Ultimately this could lead to the death of indymedia as people won't bother to look at it. I think this might have a large negative effect for animal rights activists since Indymedia has been one of the very few news platforms that has facilitated getting the AR message over to a wider audience without distorting it.
I suggest that the person that posted the original story reflect on the difference that loosing indymedia in the long term might have to the AR movement compared to what I suggest might be a very small short term gain in using Indymedia to tell untruths to disrupt a very small local event.
If you don't like the Indymedia guidelines, lobby to have them changed. If you can't respect them, go somewhere else.
For what it's worth, I'm a vegan and was generally opposed to the chickens event. But that doesn't mean I will abuse one of the best activist resources (IM) to make my point.
http://www.barrackslanegarden.org.uk/news.php). As such, it clearly breaks the Indymedia publishing guidelines by being inaccurate ( http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/oxford/static/editorial.html). Indymedia is for people to publish their own news, and for others to make comments about it. It is not a platform to try and disrupt other people's stories that you disagree with. If it's used in this way, it will become devalued as people will have no idea on whether a story is genuine or not. Ultimately this could lead to the death of indymedia as people won't bother to look at it. I think this might have a large negative effect for animal rights activists since Indymedia has been one of the very few news platforms that has facilitated getting the AR message over to a wider audience without distorting it.
I suggest that the person that posted the original story reflect on the difference that loosing indymedia in the long term might have to the AR movement compared to what I suggest might be a very small short term gain in using Indymedia to tell untruths to disrupt a very small local event.
If you don't like the Indymedia guidelines, lobby to have them changed. If you can't respect them, go somewhere else.
For what it's worth, I'm a vegan and was generally opposed to the chickens event. But that doesn't mean I will abuse one of the best activist resources (IM) to make my point.
Indymedia fan
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