Small boy kills big pig

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Originally Posted by L5->R5/CR

Depends on the farming strategy. Most times a 6 year hog will make a bigger proffit then a 2 year hog.

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True, but at some point they stop growing or becoming tastier. Otherwise the farmers would let their pigs die of old age. Distillers get more money from 12 year old whiskey, but farmers probably won't get more money from pigs who have died of old age.

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Originally Posted by Brown, Jon Brow

Didn't say that babies and animals are injected with the same substances, animals are injected with substances designed for animals.

My brother doesn't grow beef, but chemicals used for farming animals, generally help improve the health of the animals, otherwise they wouldn't do it. A healthy animals is a tastier one.

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How do you know? Ever eaten a sick cow? Seriously, have you ever seen a veal calf? See if you can find a farm that raises them. And then come back and tell me that they are "healthy". I've always had a strong stomach. But the first time I saw a dark pen area with several of them contained and being force fed, I had to go outside and throw up. It was like a bad scene out of a sick sci-fi movie. But to each his own.

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Originally Posted by Brown, Jon Brow

I don't get what is so good about organic food. I'd prefer my vegetables to be big and have been sprayed with chemicals,

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So having that sixth finger will make holding that extra large ear of corn sooo much easier. :D

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Originally Posted by Brown, Jon Brow

rather than being as shriveled up as a pensioners genitals and have been p****d on by a slug.

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Maybe the pensioners should use some of these "miracle grow" formulas on their shriveled members? Hey, don't laugh. I may have thought of a good, get-rich-quick scheme. Are you in it with me?

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Originally Posted by Eki

True, but at some point they stop growing or becoming tastier. Otherwise the farmers would let their pigs die of old age. Distillers get more money from 12 year old whiskey, but farmers probably won't get more money from pigs who have died of old age.

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You are both correct. It all comes down to strategy. Some stock is kept primarily for breeding. You don't sell those until their off-spring yield falls to an unacceptable level. Others are kept for sale or slaughter. With cattle, the sale periods vary. If they're being sold to another breeder, a yearling to two years old is typical. If it's for meat, it goes more on the estimated weight of the animal, more so than JUST age.

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Originally Posted by Jag_Warrior

Why, Carl? As far as outside observers are concerned, what does it matter whether it's a .50, a .45 or a .44?

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If I'm totally honest, the callibre doesn't really matter, the age of the shooter is more of a distrubing factor to me, not the size of his weapon ( no pun intended).

I guess I'd feel different if I was brought up where gun culture was part of everyday life, where it's perfectly normal for a 5 year old child to be given a gun to shoot deer, and where every now and then a pi$$ed-off-with-life 16/18 year old, who has probably shot his first deer at the age of 5 or 6, walks around his school/local mall and kills anything that moves until he runs out of ammo.

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Originally Posted by CarlMetro

If I'm totally honest, the callibre doesn't really matter, the age of the shooter is more of a distrubing factor to me, not the size of his weapon ( no pun intended).

I guess I'd feel different if I was brought up where gun culture was part of everyday life, where it's perfectly normal for a 5 year old child to be given a gun to shoot deer, and where every now and then a pi$$ed-off-with-life 16/18 year old, who has probably shot his first deer at the age of 5 or 6, walks around his school/local mall and kills anything that moves until he runs out of ammo.

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They said on the radio here yesterday that they had granted a gun license to a 10 month old baby in the US. His father had bought him a shotgun as a present and he needed a license for it.

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Originally Posted by Eki

They said on the radio here yesterday that they had granted a gun license to a 10 month old baby in the US. His father had bought him a shotgun as a present and he needed a license for it.

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I wonder if you'd be so opposed to this if this had happened in a country that wasn't part of your axis of evil......... Eki's doesn't have imbalanced opinions. He has chips on both shoulders.....

RIP Big Pig.

Don't you start now!!!! :angryfire

P.S can I ask for extra bacon on my pizza when I get home? All this talk of pig is making me hungry for piggy meat!

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Originally Posted by Jag_Warrior

And to be clear, I don't know what supplements, growth hormones or growth promotants are allowed in the UK. I own no land nor animals in the UK. But I do know that UK beef has been banned in the EU, and some U.S. beef has been banned in the UK and EU.

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Besides the BSE reasoning, beef products weren't traded between countries because of the anthelmintics used by each not being licenced in either country. That means, in plain old English, we used drugs to de-worm our cattle that the US do not and vice versa. I think it's still the case, but can't remember as we've had a raft of new wormers allowed for equine use that the US have been using years.

I eat boar often. Large boar taste downright nasty, while youngsters are the most delicious pork you can get. I doubt the monster shot by this lad will be anything but tough and bitter to eat.

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Originally Posted by Eki

Did you have to remind me and make me feel bad about it? Anyways, I can't understand how anyone can enjoy killing.

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I know when I hunt I am killing a defenseless creature, but I do not think about that when I pull the tigger. I hunt for food. I hunt deer. And unlike most people, I hunt for food as the main reason to hunt, not the rack that sits on top of its head. Plus, it benefits the poor in my town as my parents and I usually donate half the meat from the animal to the local food shelter.