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<blockquote data-quote="Lil" data-source="post: 651753" data-attributes="member: 17309"><p>I don't doubt this author is truthful either - as to her experience. I just think that everybody is different and that is what everyone needs to keep in mind.</p><p> </p><p>As to the livestock/puppy mills/etc...first let me say I don't think livestock should be mistreated! BUT, having grown up on a very small farm with an old-fashioned dad (he was born in 1911) I understand the mind-set.</p><p> </p><p>I'm sure some people would consider some of what we did mistreatment. No, we didn't go out and hurt them for fun, but for instance, hog castration time - no anesthesia - my dad grabbed a pig, two quick cuts with his pocket knife, pop out, cut off, toss aside, spray with antiseptic, done - next pig. Cows and pigs were kept in the barn lot in winter. I remember taking an axe to the water troughs in the lot so they could get drinks. We kept rabbits when I was a kid too for a while. They were kept pretty much like puppy mill dogs, little cages in the hutch, wire floor for poo to fall through. They were food...not pets.</p><p> </p><p>This was a very small farm...animals were only raised for food or for sale, maybe 40 head of cattle at any one time, maybe 12 sows. Our animals were treated like royalty compared to what you see in a large corporate farm. Like I said, I don't think animals should be mistreated...but unless you buy your meat from a co-op and have a first hand view of the conditions the animals are kept in, I suspect any family farm, Amish included, are less cruel than those.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lil, post: 651753, member: 17309"] I don't doubt this author is truthful either - as to her experience. I just think that everybody is different and that is what everyone needs to keep in mind. As to the livestock/puppy mills/etc...first let me say I don't think livestock should be mistreated! BUT, having grown up on a very small farm with an old-fashioned dad (he was born in 1911) I understand the mind-set. I'm sure some people would consider some of what we did mistreatment. No, we didn't go out and hurt them for fun, but for instance, hog castration time - no anesthesia - my dad grabbed a pig, two quick cuts with his pocket knife, pop out, cut off, toss aside, spray with antiseptic, done - next pig. Cows and pigs were kept in the barn lot in winter. I remember taking an axe to the water troughs in the lot so they could get drinks. We kept rabbits when I was a kid too for a while. They were kept pretty much like puppy mill dogs, little cages in the hutch, wire floor for poo to fall through. They were food...not pets. This was a very small farm...animals were only raised for food or for sale, maybe 40 head of cattle at any one time, maybe 12 sows. Our animals were treated like royalty compared to what you see in a large corporate farm. Like I said, I don't think animals should be mistreated...but unless you buy your meat from a co-op and have a first hand view of the conditions the animals are kept in, I suspect any family farm, Amish included, are less cruel than those. [/QUOTE]
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