[SCalGal]

They want an end to all domestic animals. You can eat twigs and grass IF no wild animal wants it.

[SCalGal]

They want an end to all domestic animals. You can eat twigs and grass IF no wild animal wants it.

[george76]

With keynote speakers HSUS President and CEO Wayne Pacelle and Congressman Jim Moran (D-Va.).

[Army Air Corps]

Ping.

[Recovering Ex-hippie]

I don’t agree with ending all killing of animals for food.
I enjoy a good steak, chicken and duck and a good pork roast.

However, I want decent conditions for animal husbandry for many reasons. Not the least is safe food handling so the meat we eat is safe. I buy meat whenever I can at Wholefoods or get Kosher meats who have higher standards for animal production and killing than the general meat companies.

Sure, the meat costs a little more, but it is safer and actually it tastes better cause all those antibiotics, etc aren’t in it.

I don’t want to be a vegan. But I want decent conditions for animals and safe food. If the general meat production companies can do that fine, if not, they should be exposed for bad and unsafe production.

[LadyDoc]

so they get rid of all the factory farms that are providing cheap poultry and eggs and meat for the poor in the cities of the third world.

Yes, compassion for the chicken and ignore the malnourished street kids.

[tarotsailor]

1600 people think they can tell a global population to eat tofu?

I think I’d rather eat activists. They probably taste just like chicken.

[familyop]

Those who don’t want to be good Americans should go back to Germany.

[Daffynition]

Did you seee the Anthony Bourdain thread recently? I found Tony's opinion on vegetarians amusing:

"Vegetarians, and their Hezbollah-like splinter-faction, the vegans, are a persistent irritant to any chef worth a damn.

To me, life without veal stock, pork fat, sausage, organ meat, demi-glace, or even stinky cheese is a life not worth living.

Vegetarians are the enemy of everything good and decent in the human spirit, an affront to all I stand for, the pure enjoyment of food. The body, these waterheads imagine, is a temple that should not be polluted by animal protein. It's healthier, they insist, though every vegetarian waiter I've worked with is brought down by any rumor of a cold.

Oh, I'll accomodate them, I'll rummage around for something to feed them, for a 'vegetarian plate', if called on to do so. Fourteen dollars for a few slices of grilled eggplant and zucchini suits my food cost fine."

~ Anthony Bourdain

[AKA Elena]

Animal Rights Activists consist of those who want NO ANIMAL to be in a yard, confined in any way, to be spayed, neutered or EVER bred.

I was the President of a Southern California group of dedicated and judicious breeders and OWNERS of kennels. Our County Supervisor used one bad case of an importer with too many dogs (all kept quite safely)to mount a campaign to decimate purebred dogs. I despise this infringement on my life and will fight them to the end.

So much of Hollywood ignorantly have their own pocket pooches and insist I have no right to mine that it is ridiculous.

Well we won our arguments about 90 % with animal regulation and Antonovich had Building and Safety step in and lie about their involvement with zoning (outdoor shaded and safely constructed runs) and now good breeders must be rich and have spent months with Building and Safety (even for outdoor kennels and the proper zoning). Building and Safety says their "rules"have existed for years and years (like always) a blatant lie that I, living on social security, and having had at least FIVE kennels over the years cannot even dream of meeting the newest regs of Building and Safety and Animal Regulation does not even enter this equation.

About the Agriculture industry, these wealthy lobbyists have convinced some very good politicians that they are in the right and all animal use must be stopped.

It will take more than the farmer and the breeder to stop this infringement. But where are the people?

Incidentally, Perry of Texas and Rick Santorum have been hoodwinked and signed or backed legislation against the most ethical of breeders and farmers.