only wants to talk about horse abuse.

[Howie]

:mad:One huge problem that the farmer today has is that the largest part of our population has no clue of how to treat, and care for an animal. The next problem is that he thinks he knows it all.

[Robert MoonShadow]

Matt ~ I think the idea of an open letter to the paper is an excellent idea. But if you do it, don’t forget to extend an invitation to the ‘anonymous party’ to come on out & “show you how its done”…sometimes getting that person razzed up enough, they’ll start to reply in print, too – which brings them out into the open – and if not, it at least establishes in the public’s eye your side of things. Because its not that person that’s worrisome… like you said; they’re not about to accept the “authorities” decision – since it wasn’t the one they wanted. But if you don’t publicly speak up with all the official details, I can pretty much guarantee that they’ll keep going until they do find someone to listen… like PETA. They might, anyways, but you’ll have established yourself – action, not reaction. That way, you’ve put them on the defensive, not yourself. Just a thought.

[simon lenihan]

jennifer,
our ancestors were also norse, maybe this is why i always challenge these so called do gooders. I can not tolerate someone from an urban background telling us that it is cruel to work our horses so hard, that we should not cover our mares on the worksite where folk can see, that they should not be left out in the rain etc etc. I would not dare go into there town and criticise the way they work , live and conduct there business, nor would anyone on this board. The next time someone tells you it is cruel to work your horse so hard, tell them he/ she is retiring next week and then you are going to eat them as they are not performing as well as they should do, tell them you can not let them in the stable as they will mess it up, so you see they have to stay out in the rain. Now let them go to the powers that be and complain, see who will be wearing the straight jacket.
simon lenihan

[416Jonny]

I saw this today and figured I’d share it with everyone.

http://adblog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2009/01/27/1763315.aspx

I wish they would just stick to animal cruelty. I mean, really. Come on PETA……

[Julie Clemons]

A couple of years ago I was chatting with a friend of a friend about different kinds of diets such as vegetarian, vegan, ovo-lacto and etc. and what kinds of things made what kind of environmental impact (local chicken vs. imported soy, that kind of thing). He explained very pompously that really the best thing was to be a breathatarian. “If you align your body energies right you can just live off of the air and the microbes you breathe.” I stopped dead with my mouth wide open and when I realized he was not kidding my blood began to boil (Please note we had just left a pub where we had eaten cheeseburgers and fries and had beer.) “Oh yes it’s completely real” he says. “You can live for years without food if you just, you know, have the right soul vibrations.” I think I actually bared my teeth in fury. I said “I’m sure the United Nations refugee programs and the folks who run WIC would be so glad to hear about this. You mean kids starve to death every day just because they don’t have their soul vibrations in order? You mean malnutrition is a spiritual problem? Not an economic and political one?”

It’s the closest I have ever come to actually punching someone. (I could have taken him out, too.) The willful ignorance and the gall of saying something like that on a full stomach were just unbelievable.

And yes, there really are people who believe in breathatarianism…you can google it.

[goodcompanion]

There is a little-known dark side to breathatarianism. That is that in order to live on breath alone, you have to grab ahold of other people, children, small animals, and just suck the living breath out of them. Turns out breath just isn’t nutritive enough if all you have to live on is your own. Most breathatarians are not ready to own up to the human cost of their practices and guard this secret very closely.

I came by this knowledge the hard way, having been assaulted by a starving breathatarian while I was changing a tire on the highway. He left me for dead with two collapsed lungs. But miraculously I survived, and lived to tell about their sinister habits. Watch out for these people.

[Carl Russell]

I hope it’s not contagious!!!

Carl

[goodcompanion]

Fortunately I was able to gnaw through the valve stem on one of my intact tires and re-inflate my lungs with the pressure from the tire, otherwise, well…I’d have been just another breathatarian-victim statistic.

So, ever since I’ve been understandably wary. First time I meet anyone, I ask, do you like to eat food? If the answer is no, I’m really on my guard.

[jen judkins]

:eek::D:eek::D:

[Robert MoonShadow]

When it comes to PETA (and these breathatarians or whatever), the only comment I have is:
Some abortions should be mandatory.

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