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One of my very favorite bloggers, whose opinions I have come to greatly respect, has a rather frightening post today about Barack Obama's stance on animal rights. Sarpy Sam says it better than I can, but Obama's position illustrates a classic farmer/rancher dilemma. We probably understand our animals better than anyone who isn't a farmer or a rancher. After all, we live with them and their very lives depend upon our good care. We wouldn't work at such a challenging job if we didn't love them. Yet every Tom, Dick and Harriet in Hollywood and Washington wants to tell us how to do our jobs.
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Well I wasn't planning on voting for him anyway but now I have something to share with others!
I heard that on the radio this morning, but I couldn't get past that his children wanted a dog. And, what, he won't let them have one?
It looks like he will say anything for a good sound bite. "Out of touch" is accurate.
I've never been a farm girl, but when I was growing up we lived in the wildlife preserve my dad managed. When people hear that they assume I'm of the PETA mentality. When I tell 'em nope, I'm all for using animals for their intended purposes (just treat them right during life) and that I believe hunting serves a purpose they just look at me like I have two heads.
And our local paper just had a big front page article on horse rescue. For the lucky few who make it to sanctuaries, great, but what they go through to end up there and for those who don't.... A quick death at the slaughterhouse would be much kinder.
Joni, me neither...this just enforces my opinion. I have some other issues too.
Jan, I thought the same thing...rich man, kids want a dog, why the heck not?
Stacy, I can tell from your blog that you have a lot of common sense...and I very much agree on the horse issue....
If everyone was a good and responsible person, we wouldn't need laws at all. Unfortunately, we see the results of lots of bad people who don't care for their animals.
I'm not saying that I agree with Obama or PETA, but to say that people know what they are doing so we don't need laws is simply not true. And to say that just because someone is a farmer or rancher so they can be trusted to do what's right is to ignore a lot of abuse that does go on.
It is ridiculous to say that because someone is a farmer or rancher that they abuse animals. It is equally ridiculous to say the opposite.
Cubby, I don't think I exactly said that...However, there are bad apples in every bunch, and I suppose it is painting with too broad a brush to call all farmers good stewards. However, most of us have to be or we would be out of business in no time flat. However, PeTA, HSUS and most of the animal rights movement want to brand us all as bad apples. They want to end livestock farming altogether.
They do it by telling thousands of city people who have no clue whatsoever about how to take care of farm animals that we are big meanies who live to abuse.
Darned near everything that is done with a farm or ranch animal can be made to seem cruel if viewed through eyes belonging to people who believe all pigs are like Wilbur in Charlotte's Web. We certainly need laws to prevent abuse, but those laws darned sure better be written by people who can recognize it...not by PeTA, which sees even eating a steak as an act of abuse. And not by a guy who doesn't even have a dog for his kids and yet is arrogant enough to tell everybody else how to take care of one.
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