I've read all of [member=144981]Orinlooper[/member] 's posts and it does seem as if he is looking for something that takes little time and caring for it, and is an easy way of making money. Not the way most smallholders think as far as I know
Yup, definitely not a way to look at things that involve sentient creatures.
Orinlooper may be better to switch his/her thoughts to meeting the market demand for locally produced vegan foods. No sentient beings there, you can neglect them to your heart's content...
(Edited to add that I did not mean to imply that vegans are not sentient, rather that they won't
eat things which were sentient, or were produced from sentient beings. But I decided to leave the wording as originally written, cos it made me giggle.)