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Bosso 63

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11. I think most of the kids I went to High School with did.

Reply to Karmadillo (Original post)

Tue Dec 16, 2014, 06:47 PM

Dec 2014

Well, the school didn't actually take them to the chicken plant,
but it was the first stop after they left school.

In SW Missouri it was an "opportunity" .

Jesus, Chicken and Meth,
but not necessarily in that order.

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"All children should be taken by their schools to visit a factory pig or chicken farm..." [View all] Karmadillo Dec 2014 OP

Trips to their water treatment plant and their sewage system should also happen HereSince1628 Dec 2014 #1

Pretty much everyone who has lived on a farm has Major Nikon Dec 2014 #7

yes, that's somewhat true, but peeing in the meadow HereSince1628 Dec 2014 #9

"pumping out the septic tank is really unlike the steps of tertiary treatment" Major Nikon Dec 2014 #12

It's the scale that demands -better- treatment HereSince1628 Dec 2014 #14

I'm not convinced the treatment is better, it's just better for the scale Major Nikon Dec 2014 #18

I think that is what I said. HereSince1628 Dec 2014 #19

Didn't sound that way Major Nikon Dec 2014 #21

I went on a tour of my local sewage treatment plant and it changed the way I think about water, and kimbutgar Dec 2014 #15

I raised pigs as a kid...sometimes pork from the discount market smells just like the pigsty. HereSince1628 Dec 2014 #16

I did this in high school tabbycat31 Dec 2014 #22

It's not just the production of meat, it's the production of everything under capitalism. Brickbat Dec 2014 #2

so true Brickbat olddots Dec 2014 #3

I can go to the store and buy a couple of tomatoes upaloopa Dec 2014 #4

I remember things like that helpmetohelpyou Dec 2014 #6

Amen. This is a great idea. appalachiablue Dec 2014 #8

Wait--I'm no defender of advanced capitalism, but ... frazzled Dec 2014 #25

Take them to Parliament / Congress too. An even more disgusting sight to behold CBGLuthier Dec 2014 #5

When I was teaching 8th grade science, as part of our unit on genetics, I would world wide wally Dec 2014 #10

I think most of the kids I went to High School with did. Bosso 63 Dec 2014 #11

The majority of my students LWolf Dec 2014 #13

I have been to one AnalystInParadise Dec 2014 #17

And this is the reason why we raise our own livestock, GGJohn Dec 2014 #20

+1 Go Vols Dec 2014 #23

My fifth grade class went to a slaughterhouse in 1956. MineralMan Dec 2014 #24

And take them to a corporate vegetable farm nichomachus Dec 2014 #26

take them for a trip thru youtube easychoice Dec 2014 #27

Agreed. All people should know where their food comes from NickB79 Dec 2014 #28

It is a good thing to hunt and grow your own food..however KinMd Dec 2014 #29