{"id":10550,"date":"2017-02-03T16:38:58","date_gmt":"2017-02-04T00:38:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/episode-752-eagles-vs-chickens\/"},"modified":"2017-02-03T16:38:58","modified_gmt":"2017-02-04T00:38:58","slug":"episode-752-eagles-vs-chickens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/episode-752-eagles-vs-chickens\/","title":{"rendered":"Episode 752: Eagles vs. Chickens"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Will Harris took over his family’s industrial farm after he graduated from college. Harris was making a profit, just as his dad had. He was also farming just as his dad had: with pesticides in the field, hormone injections for the cattle, and whatever else squeezed more money out of his land.<\/p>\n

Over time, though, Harris’s worldview changed. He started to see the downside to the industrial farming: his animals weren’t as healthy as they could be. His soil wasn’t as rich as the soil just over the fence in the forest nearby. He wanted a different kind of farm, one that didn’t depend on chemical fertilizers or man-made interventions.<\/p>\n

He went organic. He started making changes. To replace the chemical fertilizer, he brought in chickens and let them roam free. Free-range chickens would fertilize the grass; the grass would nurture the cattle, and shoppers at Whole Foods would love Harris’s organic beef. It was a great plan.<\/p>\n

But then, the eagles started to descend on Harris’s farm. Eagles eat chicken. Eagles love chicken.<\/p>\n

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