You health nuts drive me crazy.
How, exactly, does your post help me to eat more chocolate and cheese cake?
This might help you. True story. I went biking (cycling) on the Confederation Trail last week and there is one spot where you pass by an old farm where the yard is full of chickens, ducks goats, you name it. They are all free range and there isn't even a fence. The trail is old railway line so it's built up on a hill above the lower farmland but for some reason a chicken was up by the trail. When we spooked it, it acted like a dumb deer and jumped into the trail instead of away from it and I ended up hitting it with my bike.
I didn't run it over but there was a light impact and feathers were flying. It seemed fine and walked back to the farm at an amusingly casual pace.
The lesson here is that exercise is dangerous to wildlife. If you love nature, you should remain home with your cheesecake!
Always trying to help a friend,
Murph
