not saying that fresh squab is cheap - just that the excess processing requirements of city filth pigeons would bump their price to a point where it might not be so competitive. :)
i dont doubt that incidence of disease in factory-farmed pigeons (assuming they were to exist) would be likely quite high - but considering that pigeon populations in major cities are most likely way over normal carrying capacity for the same space in normal, open space habitat - its probably quite similar conditions! except that in cities, the pigeons would be there willingly :)
im pretty sure ive seen documentation of higher than average disease rates in urban pigeons, but i cant quote a reference. my brother, who is a falconer, and regularly traps quantities of pigeons for food for his falcons, definitely reports much higher mortality rates in those birds as opposed to the captive-bred pigeons he also keeps. (sample size over the last 10 years, probably several thousand pigeons) theyre certainly dirtier in cities than they are in more rural environments, which would suggest wider possibilities as disease vectors...
regardless, i want them dead. i want their families dead. i want their nests burnt to the ground. i want to go there in the middle of the night and piss on the ashes.
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Date: 2004-01-28 07:09 pm (UTC)i dont doubt that incidence of disease in factory-farmed pigeons (assuming they were to exist) would be likely quite high - but considering that pigeon populations in major cities are most likely way over normal carrying capacity for the same space in normal, open space habitat - its probably quite similar conditions! except that in cities, the pigeons would be there willingly :)
im pretty sure ive seen documentation of higher than average disease rates in urban pigeons, but i cant quote a reference. my brother, who is a falconer, and regularly traps quantities of pigeons for food for his falcons, definitely reports much higher mortality rates in those birds as opposed to the captive-bred pigeons he also keeps. (sample size over the last 10 years, probably several thousand pigeons) theyre certainly dirtier in cities than they are in more rural environments, which would suggest wider possibilities as disease vectors...
regardless, i want them dead. i want their families dead. i want their nests burnt to the ground. i want to go there in the middle of the night and piss on the ashes.