Eggs in Iowa

``Change here has been jarring for some. While farmers here could still recall the small egg operations of their parents and grandparents (a henhouse with 500 chickens once seemed like a lot), Iowa’s large-scale egg production was booming. The state is the largest egg producer now, by far. Fifteen billion eggs are expected to come from Iowa this year from 60 million hens.''

From NYT.

It is not the same to have 500 chickens, than 60 million hens; in the same way that it is not the same to have one hundred million people on Earth than 7 billion.

Isn't that clear?

Salmonella is the least of our problems; all of us are endangering the planet much more.

Besides my people are there also, like so many chickens:

``Watching news of the egg recall on Spanish-language television inside the Mexican restaurant here, workers refused to discuss their jobs — fearful, they said, that they might be fired. One former worker defended the facilities, which over the years have been the target of several raids by immigration officials. He said they were clean, safe and included devices meant to ward off rodents. “People don’t even touch the eggs,” he said, before insisting that he, too, not be identified. “You have to understand, this is a small town.”''