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To: Centurion2000
Obviously you've never had to put an animal down.

...or spent time on a REAL farm where the realities of that type of life are very harsh. Where the kids will help their dad with the chore of putting down a choice head of cattle they helped raise since it was a day old calf, then hauled into the barn to be gutted then processed for the freezer. Or the choice hog they raised since it was a piglet and destined for the pig roast the following weekend........

16 posted on 06/19/2009 2:20:06 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco (This country isn't going to hell in a handbasket, it's riding shotgun in an Indy car....)
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To: Hot Tabasco
...or spent time on a REAL farm where the realities of that type of life are very harsh. Where the kids will help their dad with the chore of putting down a choice head of cattle they helped raise since it was a day old calf, then hauled into the barn to be gutted then processed for the freezer. Or the choice hog they raised since it was a piglet and destined for the pig roast the following weekend........

Or having to kill the some of a batch of chicken eggs that just hatched because the chicks are malformed and going to die anyway. Mercy killings and livestock killing .... not fun ... but must be done.

21 posted on 06/19/2009 2:24:33 PM PDT by Centurion2000 (Out of gas become a pill box, Out of ammo become a bunker, Out of hope become a hero.)
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