Posted on 02/08/2009 12:39:11 PM PST by jazusamo
We need more articles like this to counter the propaganda of HSUS and PETA.
Glad to see this article.
The most characteristic attitude of animal-rights groups is snobbery.
Only living a thin little life in an apartment in semi-suburbia is “corret”.
People who actually produce stuff are low-class. Workers, you know. Out there in the cold and the manure.
Snobbery is the most characteristic trait of all these groups.
corret=correct.
The average American is now 4 generations from the farm. Thanks to the Nixon Administrations moto of “Get Big or Get Out” in regards to farming this gap will only grow. People really have no idea what goes on at a farm anymore.
Almost all of our meat now comes from four meat processing companies, most of whom hire illegal labor. The pictures PITA gets are from these huge operations, not from your small local processor or someone who does farm slaughter.
City liberals think that food only comes from a box or a can.
But even back in the 70s, the farmers felt they were being unfairly attacked by the elitist political classes of the city. This bumper sticker was very popular in my little ag town:
BOYCOTT FARMERS. DON'T EAT.
Thanks for the ping!
Well said! Those people out there working in the cold and muck are some of the finest in the country, the kind that do the right thing even when they know they’re not being watched.
I have no problem whatsoever with big farms or “corporate farming”.
“What if we told the highway patrol we were going to give them the day off and we’re just going to self-regulate our speed?” he said. “People understand that doesn’t work.”
I don’t understand that at all.
All good points, Colvin. I would guess many of our younger generations have never seen a farm or ranch other than on TV.
“I have no problem whatsoever with big farms or “corporate farming”.”
Then you probably don’t know much about it or obtain your income from it. People who know about the reality of corporate farming don’t generally like it.
I mean whats to like about a chicken that grows in a cage too small for it to stand up. For a calf to do the same because theres not enough veal. Or for turning dead animals back into feed for the live ones.
In the 60’s CBS produced a show called “Guns of Autumn” to show what hunting was like in America. It was almost all shot on hunting ranches and depicted a lot of nitwits passing themselves off as hunters. There were multiple scenes of animal abuse. This was what CBS thought hunting was about.
Nor do I. I stopped and reread that and the previous paragraph and it still didn’t make sense to me.
We could give the HI Po a week off and I don’t expect we would see much difference. Hell a year wouldn’t work cause every now and again they do something useful for society.
It’s a beautiful day in Maryland. After weeks of numbing cold, we are having a rare few days of temps in the 60s. People are out riding their bikes, strolling hand in hand, and playing games with the kids. Convertibles speed by on joyrides, and our neighbors have fired up their grill.
My husband and I are shoveling and moving carts full of muck since the manure finally thawed out.
We break our backs to keep things clean, safe and healthy for our animals. The house may not be as tidy as I’d like but the barns are clean and swept. The other livestock breeders and owners that we know are the same way.
We also know a few “animal rights activists.” Our animals are cleaner, better fed, better trained, and have more attention paid to them than the activists’ kids.
They really frost my cookies.
Thanks for you post, I don’t doubt a word of it and it frosts me too when they start spewing their propaganda.
Cheers!
Thanks for linking your thread, g_w. I wonder how many million animal rights activists use products made from parts of cattle and have no idea from where they came, how ironic for the PETA and other nutjobs. :)
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