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Are you sick of it yet? Are you tired of hearing about the Humane Society of the United States yet? Are you worn out from listening to how they are going to take over?
If you are, I am sorry – but their impending agenda seemingly looms over agriculture and if we sit by and watch the parade of propaganda, we will be waking up one morning wondering where our livelihoods have gone.
“Commitment with accountability closes the gap between intention and results.” That quote is from author Sandra Gallagher and speaks to our need to continue to stand up for animal agriculture. The following letters from one reader in Michigan shows her commitment to the fight:
Hi Melissa,
Where is HSUS getting their information? I don’t remember a poll being conducted asking about our opinions about farm animal treatment. I wonder how many are vegetarians, want to push their agenda on the rest of the public.
I agree “Opportunity is calling.” The majority should get really angry about this, these people are trying to take away our food and the livelihood of farmers who produce our food.
For many years we participated in Ag Day at the fairgrounds in Monroe. You would probably not be amazed at how uninformed our urban/city youth are today about how our food gets to the table.
We have had the teachers that brought the schoolchildren through the exhibit areas argue with us about how most of the cereals are produced. They insisted that field corn was NOT the ingredient, that it was sweet corn.
In our station we showed them corn on the husk, how it was husked, shelled and ground. We had all hand-operated equipment. We even passed out corn bread, not a small task baking corn bread for several hundred participants. We went through the litany of showing all the products we could that were made from the cornfields that are passed every day by everyone. There were some kids that thought that at least some of the food was manufactured in the back room at the grocery stores!
I still wonder, Melissa, what these people eat, and what they think we should do about our food supply. I think a wake-up call would be an all-day (maybe even two-day )trip to the farms that produce our beef, pork, poultry and milk, and I am not talking about the mega farms, but the family farms that still produce the best there is.
I think (HSUS president and CEO Wayne) Pacelle should offer legitimate proof of what he says, not try to panic the public into thinking their food is not safe to eat, and the animals are being tortured.
But alas, we have a public that stays apathetic until it is too late to do anything, perhaps they need to be stirred up, to protect our food selection and source.
Keep up the fight, I will do my part.
Marjie Willey
Onsted, Mich.
The same reader writes another letter:
Hi Melissa,
I thought you should have gotten accolades for your article on PETA. It was right on the money. Very accurate and you zinged them in a “nice” way. Good for you!
What I wonder is how these people sit in church on Sunday and pretend to be Christians. God, when He created the Earth, waited until last to create the animals, and he had the foresight to give man DOMINION over them. Imagine, not having food to eat?
I wonder what these PETA people do for dairy products? They do not partake of them? I think they (the real diehards and uppity-ups) are closet meat and dairy products eaters.
Another article well done.
Marjie Willey
As Marjie said, we need to keep up the fight and not give up, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest – if we do not give up.
The views and opinions expressed in this column are those of the author and not necessarily those of Farm World. Readers with questions or comments for Melissa Hart may write to her in care of this publication. |
| 5/20/2009 |
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