--- pippa258 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Storme Lee~Fire Island Farms wrote: > > What I would like is a more humane way to raise and slaughter > > animals..... > I think this is what Temple Grandin has tried to do. Not sure how > much > her methods and suggestions are used. I try to buy organic, free > range > meat whenever I can find it because the animal had some quality of > life > but have no idea of the slaughtering methods on these meats. I > wish > that was on the label too.... > > http://www.grandin.com/ > > Trish
Yes Temple is great, we bought her book about a year ago, and her methods are more humane at slaughter...unfortunatley those same cows are kept in confined feed lots which are very difficult to keep clean, very small space with very large beings....you get the point. We have had a dairy cow on our farm , Gita, she is a Dexter, and she was smart and intellegent, kind and wary of strangers but not her family. When we picked her up to bring her home...on the way out of the driveway her whole herd came running down the pasture mo'ooing at her trying to keep up with our truck and trailer and we heard them a block away....Cows have feelings folks. And we eat them...its ok....I just try to talk with people about more humane methods of raising and slaughtering cattle. We raise our own sheep for food....but I can not take them to commercial slaughter, it would be too difficult for me, as their life has been blissful, and the trip to the slaughterhouse would be a very hard stress on them. On the farm I can do the slaughtering myself in a humane way, with a ceremony of thanks and gratefullness, without stress. And I know many people who have chickens as pets, with names and everything.....we have chickens on our farm and they provide a much needed service...Bug eaters and manure spreaders....they love to run around on the ground , sleep in the trees and are Very good protective mothers...... To what degree of intellegence is it ok to eat an animal? Horses, no Dogs, no Pigs-------mmm, tuff as pigs are more intelligent than dogs , yet we eat them Cows, yes Buffalo, yes Dolphin, yes, Tuna is part of the dolphin family I just admit and have come to terms with eating meat.....I just to try to choose humane meat, and I do not try to put down a whole nation of people and point the finger.......just because their eating practice is different than ours. When I hear that everything Icelandic is bad and everything american is good, my button gets pushed. Storme ____________________________________________________________________________________ Food fight? Enjoy some healthy debate in the Yahoo! Answers Food & Drink Q&A. http://answers.yahoo.com/dir/?link=list&sid=396545367
