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- From: linan@argon.berkeley.edu (Mike Linan)
- Newsgroups: talk.politics.animals
- Subject: Re: Better to be slaughtered than never to have lived? Re: Meat eaters (LONG)
- Date: 29 Dec 1992 19:09:22 GMT
- Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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- References: <1992Dec28.202235.18123@spdc.ti.com> <BzzqrM.q1@wpg.com>
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- In article <BzzqrM.q1@wpg.com> russ@wpg.com (Russell Lawrence) writes:
- >From article <1992Dec28.202235.18123@spdc.ti.com>, by achenbac@epcot.spdc.ti.com (Jeff Achenbach):
- >> If I may add my 2 cents. I've never met a farmer/rancher who didn't have
- >> a genuine love and concern for the welfare of his/her animals. Without it,
- >> they wouldn't tolerate the long hours and hard work for little pay. It's a
- >> 24 hour a day, 7 day a week job, and damn near any good trade will make
- >> you a better living with a lot smaller investment and a lot less risk. Maybe
- >> you can get a summer job on a farm, if you're lucky. It would probably be
- >> a real eye opener for you.
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- >75% of the food consumed in the US is produced by 3% of the farms/ranches.
- >Do you think the large operations have a genuine love and concern for
- >animals --- hidden away somewhere between the mail room and the executive
- >boardroom perhaps?
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- You have a point. I'm sure executives have a great deal of power over how
- a farm/ranch will be run and how much money is allocated for the living
- conditions of the livestock. However, those who actually "run" the show
- hands-on probably have at least as much if not more power in determining
- how the livestock is treated. It isn't hard to understand how those who
- are farm/ranch managers would be hired to do a job and are given what they
- need to get the job done. The millionaire corporation executives who may
- own farms/ranchs may not know nearly as much about running the operations
- and therefore hire managers who do know.
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- >Russell Lawrence, WP Group, New Orleans (504) 443-5000
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- Mike Linan
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