Saving the Farmers Market is localvores’ job

hey! what happened to my comment about the farmers market being snotty and pretentious?

bro tim, other commenter used the term ‘factory farm building’ not ‘barn’.

and the comparison was not so much the smell, but the inhumane living conditions of the animals that soon become your dinner.

yes, we eat them but why put them through that torture before then?

certain groups in some countries believe that heightened adrenalin enhances the meat’s virility factor, so hang the living animal and beat it with sticks, electric prods etc to create the most pain and fear just before killing.

i think most people ‘over here’ think that the cows or pigs we eat in our ham sandwiches, bacon, cheeseburgers, t bone steaks had a life of wandering around a ranch chewing grass, flicking their tails at flies, looking at passing cars on the road, having a nap in the shade of the old oak tree. then when its bye-bye time, they get a ride in a truck (still just rolling their eyes and looking at the passing scenery thru the slats in the truck) to a big clean building where someone smacks them in the forehead with a stun gun the second their hooves hit the ramp, before they even look around.
if people can even think that much about the process.

you CAN get meat from animals who lived that kind of life and then death, but you have to look for it.
the majority of meat offered to us comes at hideous pain and suffering for the animals that give their lives for us. because we eat so much of it, and want it as cheaply as possible and have no thought as to how that can come about. close our eyes. don’t think. hum loudly.

because i doubt that most people WOULD buy that meat if they saw the process. it doesn’t mean you have to stop eating meat, just think about the process. make a choice to NOT support the mass processing that treats the animals like grain. (no don’t start on hearing grain scream in the thresher, you are just throwing chaff)

if you are a hunter, would you shoot to disable then tie up your deer and start torturing it? no, you go for the quickest most humane kill. otherwise its something entirely different.

we have become oblivious sexual sadists. gobbling up chicken wings, bacon and cheeseburgers in an ecstasy while a million animals lived and died in terror and agony for our fleeting pleasure.

the alternative, if we want to enjoy our food is to support those that provide humanely raised animals, kill them humanely.
spend 170$ on a small freezer and then get a quarter beef from one of the local farms around here that have cows and pigs walking around in the fresh air. the meat comes cut up and wrapped and labeled. you could go in with a friend on the freezer, meat, rent a car for the weekend for 10$ a day, hit the real farm markets. spend the money there instead of one nights drinks in a bar perhaps. or one pair of lululunatic pants.

i think its worth thinking about for a second.

no zzed, alcohol strengthens the BRAIN. it kills brain cells right? and following the law of evolution, only the old and weak cells are killed off, letting the young, strong and vigorous survive.

uh huh. however i do believe in NOT disinfecting everything under the sun. esp for kids. they have to be exposed to real life.
plain old soap and water. 5 second rule applies, even with dogs and cats piddle paws walking on the floor. and its fine to drink out of the dogs dish if he lets them. i also believe babies should be fed peanut butter, fish and eggs by one month of age to make sure they don’t develop any allergies.

preservatives, dyes and unpronounceable additives are a no-no though. no pizza-zits, dunkaroos and stretchy friggin fruit. gad. what crap kids have to eat. and juice boxes with mold in them.

have a peanut butter/banana sandwich and a glass of milk for crying out loud.