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grralph1 wrote: bloody milk.
That must be an Australian thing.
Here, in the northern hemisphere we tend towards adding things like chocolate syrup . . .
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Flash back to “the office” episode where they were selling the newest fad milk for 10 times the price of cow’s milk. Organic “beef” milk.
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Much of the western world seems to me to be disappearing up its own fundament of unintentionally self-parodying, over-statist, micro-managing, meddling absurdity. California is just ahead of the curve.
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I believe it.
I've been to Califo9rnia many times and it used to be an awesome place to visit, I wouldn't go there now if you paid me.
I would love to see Yosemite but alas it's in PRC.
The less you need, the more you have.
Even a blind squirrel gets a nut...occasionally.
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We just got back from a visit with the in laws there. There's two less of us now there. And we had bacon for breakfast. 
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Life causes cancer. People are not allowed in California.
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I believe you are squealing a little too loudly. 
If they are being bred and raised for slaughter then consumption, what difference does it make?
It's good to be top of the food chain.
BLT please
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Slow Eddie wrote: If they are being bred and raised for slaughter then consumption, what difference does it make?
All animals - humans, pigs, cows or whatever - are destined to die. Once we are dead, we all are food for something (worms & bacteria, if nothing else). Just because an animal is destined for the table is no reason to torture it while alive.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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At the beginning of next year, California will begin enforcing an animal welfare proposition approved overwhelmingly by voters in 2018 that requires more space for breeding pigs, egg-laying chickens and veal calves.
Just sayin' - your problem isn't with California. It's with Californians. 
Real programmers use butterflies
modified 1-Aug-21 18:03pm.
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I am fairly certain that most Californians love bacon.
The issue lies with a very small, powerful, subset of Californians, that basically hate other humans, especially themselves.
As a side note, I was born in Los Angeles, California, and lived there for 22 years. I still have family there.
California is a sh*t hole. On a breezy day, I can smell it from Upstate New York.
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Given the bit I bolded before I'm having trouble reconciling that with your statement about a small cabal being actually responsible for this.
There are two ways I can think of to square that circle:
1. A small cabal of voters overwhelmingly approved the measure, meaning a small cabal of californians are the only ones who vote, and you're suggesting that gives them immense power that other people don't have.
2. The election was stolen
Real programmers use butterflies
modified 1-Aug-21 20:56pm.
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Or:
3. Only a small proportion of the population bothered to vote on this proposition
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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That's fair, but if the voters turned out for it, and the other ones didn't, it doesn't strike me as bacon tyranny, and certainly no small powerful cabal. No, it's just some voters voted for a thing. People that if your theory holds - didn't even vote - don't like it.
I'm failing to see how anything is untoward here.
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With all due respect,* it doesn't fit their agenda.
It's easier to say there's some small elite that somehow rigged these votes than to accept the fact that a majority of people does not share their beliefs 
Also, Californians didn't vote against bacon, they probably love bacon.
They voted for better treatment for animals.
I also don't believe 96% of pig farmers in California will simply stop existing or go bankrupt because they currently don't comply with future regulations.
Regulations for the meat industry are constantly changing and this one isn't new.
That said, it does seem to be true that the media is, in general, more left than "the people".
Probably because it takes a certain character to work in that field.
Also, their statement may hold true for other events or regulations, just not this one, as far as I can see.
This simple, yet effective, spell protects me from all personal grievances that my following statement may induce.
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I agree with most of this, although in the United States, when polled on an issue by issue basis, absent any political affiliation being attached to the issues, Americans are rather more "progressive" than they even give themselves credit for. ([^])
Also the media in the US is bought. It doesn't reflect the audience, only the base artifacts of what can be sold to or taken from the audience. On one hand you have traditional "news" media, which is anti person, and pro corporate, and then you have the right wing media, which acts as the propaganda arm of one of major parties, and an outlet for propaganda from hostile foreign countries. That's what we get for news. It doesn't reflect us. In terms of how it represents us, that's not accurate either. It represents us in ways that enable it to trick us or to use us and keep us servile and consumery, not in a way that is accurate.
Real programmers use butterflies
modified 2-Aug-21 8:46am.
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honey the codewitch wrote: the bit I bolded before I'm having trouble reconciling that with your statement about a small cabal being actually responsible for this.
Because all the voters voted for was "treat pigs fairly." None of them actually read the bill and understood how many square feet would now be required under the new law and what the other provisions were and even if they would have, they wouldn't have know what the current provisions were nor what it would cost or take for a farmer to meet the new provisions.
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So we're just going to assume a bunch of people are hopelessly short sighted. I mean, not only is that depressing to consider, but it's really bad form to be wrong about that, as in danger- hubris will rogers - danger. Furthermore, it's just not likely.
But you know what? If you're right, there will be an initiative soon to undo it. I just don't think you're right.
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honey the codewitch wrote: So we're just going to assume a bunch of people are hopelessly short sighted.
It's not clear if you understood what I meant to mean. But from your response, it would appear that you think most of the voters understood exactly what they were voting for. Surely you do not believe that, do you?
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I think most people that bother to vote on an issue like making pig farming more humane realize that it makes it more expensive.
I refuse to believe that people around me are cartoon parodies of people. They can understand cause and effect.
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honey the codewitch wrote: most people that bother to vote on an issue like making pig farming more humane realize that it makes it more expensive.
That wasn't quite the argument, but we'll have to agree to disagree.
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honey the codewitch wrote: So we're just going to assume a bunch of people are hopelessly short sighted. I mean, not only is that depressing to consider, but it's really bad form to be wrong about that, as in danger- hubris will rogers - danger. Furthermore, it's just not likely.
I suppose you aren't following what has happened in other countries with some big referendums... if you did, that question would be a rethoric one.
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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honey the codewitch wrote:
2. The election was stolen
Oh my! With that option you all but gave him a wet-dream way to explain away what he doesn't like.
On the other hand, it's trendy: to all-too-many, the road to reality is that anything they don't like must be a lie.
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