My family

[Guest guest]

Kevin,

 

I think your parents definitely have the right idea! I might raise

the venom of the group here saying this, but if meat production were

always conducted as your family does, I would reconsider my

vegetarian diet. Kudos to you and them!

 

-K

 

" Go Pats!!! "

 

, " Kevin Smith "

<thatballguy> wrote:

> Just some more info about my parents. My parents raise cattle on

a

> free-range farm, with anesthetized castration/dehorning, and a

> generally happy bovine life. I mean, if you're gonna raise beef,

I

> like their way better than commercial methods.

>

> My mom raises chickens in a large (like 1/10 acre) pen. She won't

> keep more than about 20 hens at a time, because then they'd be too

> cramped. We take the eggs whenever they lay them naturally, and

let

> them die natural deaths, as opposed to butchering. With that I

> really have no qualms.

>

> We also used to raise rabbits for meat, but finally decided

against

> it, due to our inability to allow them any kind of fufilling life

or

> even a painless death. Our two remaining rabbits are finishing

> their lives in an open grass-bottom pen now.

>

> My parents are rather conservative Christian, and they enjoy their

> meat, but they also believe in being kind to your animals.

They've

> always been big about stewarship and not using steroids etc on our

> animals.

>

> It sounds weird when I say " Yeah, I'm vegetarian, and my folks

raise

> cattle " but hopefully this will make it more evident as to why

> they're supportive of me in my endevour to abstain from flesh.

>

> Kevin Smith

>

>

> " You care for people and animals alike, O LORD " Psalm 36:6