{"id":1906,"date":"2012-02-23T15:36:12","date_gmt":"2012-02-23T20:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/?p=1906"},"modified":"2012-02-23T15:51:49","modified_gmt":"2012-02-23T20:51:49","slug":"listening-post-qotd-price-range-free-range","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/2012\/02\/23\/listening-post-qotd-price-range-free-range\/","title":{"rendered":"Listening Post QOTD: Price range, free range?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Chicken Matrix<\/p><\/div>\n

It’s almost a law: if you spend enough time online, your will find something heinous every day. I think it was Ellen who found the grossest nugget this week<\/a>: A student at the Royal College of Art was researching the British chicken industry, which in the interest of its bottom line is always trying to find new ways to pack more chickens into less space. Anyone familiar with industrial chicken farming knows the current state of art is already pretty heinous. The student designed a Centre for Unconscious Farming, where chickens have their cortices (and feet) removed, and live tube-fed in an array of racks. The photos couldn’t be more clear–it’s the Matrix, except it’s chickens.<\/p>\n

On the other hand we have today’s Photo of the Day<\/a> from Todd Moe’s little back yard hen house. Animals living an animal life and getting to run around and socialize a little.\u00a0 As with many other things in life, how we eat is driven by what we’re willing to pay. At Price Chopper in Potsdam this week, whole fryer chickens are on sale at $1.29 per pound. Today’s question of the day is:<\/p>\n

How much more per pound would you pay for chicken that was raised<\/strong> “free range?”<\/strong> How much lower would the price have to be before you would buy decorticated chickens grown in a tube-fed “Matrix?”<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Whole fryer chickens are on sale at $1.29 per pound. Today’s question of the day is: How much more per pound would you pay for chicken that was raised “free range?” How much lower would the price have to be before you would buy decorticated chickens grown in a tube-fed “Matrix?”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[6128,6200],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1906"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1906"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1907,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1906\/revisions\/1907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}