Letter to the Editor
Animal free
Published Tuesday, September 30, 2008
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To the editor:
The escalating costs of corn and soybeans and the current credit crunch are forcing widespread cutbacks in the number of animals raised for food.
For the animals and caring consumers, such cuts are long overdue.
The 10 billion animals killed for food in the U.S. each year are caged and crowded, deprived and drugged, manhandled and mutilated. At the slaughterhouse, they may be scalded, bled, skinned and dismembered, while still conscious. Although 93 percent of consumers condemn such abuses, no law prevents them.
On Oct. 2 (Gandhi’s birthday), 400 communities in all 50 states and two dozen other countries observe World Farm Animals Day with public education events (see www.WFAD.org.) The purpose is to expose and memorialize the cruel treatment of animals raised for food and to promote an animal-free diet.
It’s a great opportunity for each of us to embrace a cruelty-free, healthful, cost-saving, plant-based diet.
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Congratulations on your personal beliefs. Now that you've had your say, please leave it be because your beliefs differ drastically from mine.
Animal-Free diet???
No thank you!
Next...the vegetable rights movement! - - ever hear of the studies of grass 'screaming' when you cut the lawn? You greenies are as mean as the rest of us...eating poor defenseless organic material!
http://michellemalkin.com/2008/05/04/get...
This past weekend I had a couple hamburgers, chicken rollups, hawiian pizza, and lasgna. Last night I had left overs, and at work I had some home made sausage. It all had meat, and was it ever good. Tonight I am looking foreward to another dinner containing meat. I prefer my steaks just medium rare so the blood soaks into my baked potato.
Right on Nathan!
I read this somewhere..."If animals weren't made to be eaten, why are they made out of meat". p.s. Ghandi wouldn't have been so thin if he lived near a McDonald's
I agree with Nathan.........Let's solve this problem by just shooting them in the "Head"...Problem solved..
good luck to you with your endeavor of going veggie only. I do not believe as you do. I feel that eating animals is part of nature.
You writing this is as ill thought out as me buying you a big Mac.
I'll not infringe on your rights, don't infringe on mine.
"Vegetarianism is harmless enough though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness." ~Robert Hutchison, address to the British Medical Association, 1930
You all feel so threatened by a vegetarian!!! I am not a vegetarian, but did cut back my meat consumption. As an athlete, I desired to retain a certain level of protein consumption and learned to cook with tofu. You can saute it with all sorts of good stuff to provide flavor and it goes well with rice, in burritos, etc. It's also cheaper than meat. Best of all, aside from not having children, cutting your meat intake by one or two meals a week is one of the most profound actions you can take to reduce our dependence on foreign oil.
I personally like chicken, fish, and a variety of game and don't expect anyone to stop eating meat, but when people realize the benefits of cutting back slightly, they will choose to reduce their consumption on their own.
Eat moose. They aren't "caged and crowded, deprived and drugged, manhandled and mutilated."
Good letter, Nathan. I agree with you and am trying to become totally vegan. It's good to hear from someone in our community about these issues.
Great, now I want a cheeseburger. Thanks alot.
Wow.
Nathan didn't preach.
He didn't throw around insults or threats.
He didn't tell you what to eat.
He didn't tell you what not to eat.
He just wrote a letter to the Editor about an upcoming event and the reasoning behind it.
He aimed to inform.
I wonder why so many got so defensive so quickly.
"Best of all, aside from not having children, cutting your meat intake by one or two meals a week is one of the most profound actions you can take to reduce our dependence on foreign oil."
Well said, brassmonkey An unpopular sentiment, but a very valid one-- aside from the obvious argument regarding local hunters.
Thank you.
"The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way it's animals are treated"- Ghandi
Did you Know the word Vegitarian has its root in Native american language Not sure what nation but regardless it's meaning is
"bad Hunter"
J_P I have never heard truer words spoken to para phrase
"I will sacrafice myself for no man and expect no man to sacrifice theirselves for me" John Galt
my rights end where yours begin " dont tread on me"
I don't believe it I actually agree with what you said Imusuallyright, Nathan just seems to be getting the word out, not yelling at me for having a loveley steak dinner this weekend. He used the correct forum to post info about a cause he feels is important, what's wrong about that?
ok... surely someone saw this one coming and wondered when this post would arrive... so as Bob Barker would say "Commmmmmmmmmmmmmmmme ONnnnnnnnnnnn Downnnnnnnnnnnnnnn!! :)
God gave me the animals to eat and so I do. I love my meat. It strengthens me and gives me the proper balanced nutrition when eaten properly... I agree.. consumers could eat less than what they usually get..but that is true of LOTS of foods.. veggies included.
one thing I have noticed about people that soley eat veggies and pasta... they are pale looking..sickly in fact and I am not the only one who has said that. So I know its not just me. At any rate... meat is good..God called it good... he even cooked fish himself and encouraged His disciples to go throw the net in and HE himself FILLED that net with more than usual .. to over flowing ..He took a few loaves of bread and a few fish and multiplied it so that the people would not be faint along the way when they went home ..so much more than was originally brought they had baskets of left overs.
I agree that abuse of the animals (if that is true) is bad and it saddens me..but some things must die in order to provide life for others... and Jesus was PRIME proof of that... and as Paul Harvey would say.......... That my friend.......is the REST of the story........Good Day!
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Mmmmmm, nothing like a well marinated steak, simmering over that grill....cant wait till dinner.
Thank you vegetarians!!!
You not only make more meat for the rest of us, you also lower the costs of tasty animals by lowering the demand!
thank you, thank you, thank you...
Now if you could just limit your consumption by eating only those foods that don't cast a shadow you can drive down vegetable costs too.
I would suggest some tasty moss or algae on a rock. yum!
I'm a strict vegetarian….but I like processed vegetables kind like processed cheese. I like them processed in the wholly organic way, into meat. It’s what’s for dinner! Oh and I eat almost all moose meat so ppbbbbpptt! I'm greener than you are. With the transportation costs and the exploitation of the migrant worker, vegetarians are not only politically incorrect but earth haters. Love your Mother, have a moose burger.
Isn't it wonderful that we live in a country where one can celebrate farm animal day or the fact that they will have a big steak for dinner. Maybe during this celebration, one can take time and realize the fact that starvation is still a real problem among many humans in the world. So have your fun mocking each other's diets, just be grateful you have food to eat.
"Best of all, aside from not having children, cutting your meat intake by one or two meals a week is one of the most profound actions you can take to reduce our dependence on foreign oil."
Riiiiiight. This only guarantees that the child-bearing meat-eaters will inherit the Earth.
Oxford Medical University.... "Scientists have discovered that going veggie could be bad for your brain-with those on a meat-free diet six times more likely to suffer b
rain shrinkage."
See:
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Healt...
Gandhi was also a proponent of drinking his own urine. His activism may be laudable, but it also launched a bloody, bloody civil war that took more than a million lives and is still being waged to this day.
Brain shrinkage?
PETA = People Eating Tasty Animals, I don't considered a well placed shot from my 375 Rem Ultra Mag on a Moose as cruel, I haven't had a Moose complain yet!
Why is there a sadistic "relish" in knowing the meat you're eating came from an animal that was tortured, killed and dismembered alive?
Some of the comments here show the socio/psychopathic nature of a small percentage of the people in Fairbanks, no wonder why there is so much violent crime for the amount of people living in the city.
Meat tastes bad when it's from a stressed out animal to begin with but add the adrenaline rushing through their bodies from dying a slow painful death and it ruins the meat completely, the reason why I do not buy meat from any grocery store or other vendor of the mass "production" slaughtering facilities- I only buy from local farmers that I know personally only or just hunt and harvest meat myself, mmmm caribou.
while there may be some animals that are poorly treated most of the meat sold in alaska is raised and killed here.It's also a bit cheaper and save on gas.
I eat beef to get even anyone who has raised cows knows they are pains in the but.Calfing can begain in jan or feb and go to june or july.
Grandpa raised cattle for slaughter and let me tell you by the time it came for those two year old cows to leave you where starting the next round of calfing.Nothing makes you more tired worn out or sore then doing 18 hour days going from stall to stall or pasture to pasture.Most of witch has to be done on horse back.
If there are crulty charges to be placed feel sorry for those who raise the cows.They are the ones who take a beating to bring you beef in the store.!
As for going vegan no thank you.Vegan smell like food to dogs and it is diffrent enough to trigger pedetory behavor in cats as well as human.Lets face it we are meateaters as well as veggie eaters.Everything in moderation.
If we all eat plants , then we kill off the natural animals that graze on the land that is now farmed. We don't see it . hear it, so it doesn't happen. But they starve , and die a slow painful death.
Didn't you study animal biology is school?
Nathan the only solution is to stop eating.
As one who grew up raising and slaughtering animals for personal consumption here in Alaska, I feel that others should have similar experiences in order to gain proper perspective on the food supply.
Unfortunately, this is not a likely nor possible scenario for many. Instead, read about factory farming and know about cruel practices such as cutting toes and beaks off of chickens stacked 8-high or chaining down calves so veal can be pumped with hormones for an additional 2 months of growth with no muscular development. Insist on meat that, while preferably local, comes from free-range, hormone and antibiotic free stocks. While conditions for animals bred for slaughter have improved vastly since publication of Diet for a New America (John Robbins, 1987), I urge anyone eating meat to consider the source of their food. It is as much for your own good as for the good of the animal.
"Best of all, aside from not having children, cutting your meat intake by one or two meals a week is one of the most profound actions you can take to reduce our dependence on foreign oil."
Brassmonkey, please explain the correlation. I can see where not having children( new consumers)would make an impact, but I am not seeing the relationship between a steak dinner and foreign oil.
Wow, Nathan wrong board to post that sort of thing on!
But really, sitting here at work... Suddenly I can't stop thinking about buying some sort of ginormous steak. O! And the best is cooking it with lots of onions and some mushrooms...
Man, it's not even close to lunch yet.
:(
The way I figure it, even vegans wear leather, and if they ain't wearing it, they are sitting on it.
They are just as guilty of the animal carnage as us meat-eatin, club carrying, pistol packin, carnivores.
So eat some meat so it don't go to waste.... :)