Prove that your animal’s water is clean/fresh/healthy
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Ash Jackson wrote:
The Question:
What methods(s) do you think should be required to prove that a PEPPER's Animal's water is clean/fresh/healthy?
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Mike Haasl wrote:Unless you have a flowing stream (of clean water) or a spring dribbling into a pool, I don't know of a way to have fresh clean water all the time.
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Ash Jackson wrote:
Mike Haasl wrote:Unless you have a flowing stream (of clean water) or a spring dribbling into a pool, I don't know of a way to have fresh clean water all the time.
Unless. Maybe this is the unspoken ideal?
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Ash Jackson wrote:My understanding is the goal here is for a person earning this BB to be well on the way to Paul's "disney-movie-about-a-girl-and-her-pampered-livestock"
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Mike Haasl wrote:We're trying to encourage people to care for their animals in ways that are better than 99% of all farm animals. Per Paul and Shawn's Better World Book there are 7 levels of animal care and we're aiming for something approaching #7:
1. factory farms
2. organic factory farms
3. what most people do when raising their own animals
4. the animals are all set free
5. providing a life better than a life in the wild
6. pampered
7. something that would inspire a Disney movie about a little girl and all of her homestead animal friends
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"Hundreds of years from now it will not matter what my bank account was, the sort of house I lived in or the type of car I drove... But the world may be different because I did something so bafflingly crazy that it becomes a tourist destination"