On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 22:55:06 -0800, jps wrote:


Okay, so here's this "lefty's" view. I hate that people purchase meat
dressed up in nice packaging. I think it totally removes them from the
process and shields them from the realities of the feed lot and
slaughter house.

While I realize it's not practical to think we should all go hunting for
food in the wilderness and grow our own crops, I think it's a good
experience to kill and have to slaughter an animal. It's a direct
connect with the process and a reality check. I also think people who
eat pigs and cows and chickens should understand how those animals are
raised, fed and slaughtered. Perhaps we'd have fewer meat eaters or
higher standards in the "meat" industry.

I respect anyone who has the cahones to live off the land (while they're
also respecting and looking out for it's welfare and taking care that
their impact is not negative) but have little respect for those who take
life for sport. I'm all for harvesting mature animals for food, as the
land can afford it.

But if you don't think landowners are beholden to those up and
downstream, I disagree. You don't get to say what happens to a waterway
just because it transits your property. Unless, of course, you own in
in its entirety.

I think you're confusing PC with just plain old politics. Politicians
and legislators are more likely to show interest in things that motivate
voters to vote for them or raise them money.

jps

Wow, something of jps's to agree with!

Here's a packaged chicken tidbit that you may or may not have noticed. Some of
the stuff sold right here in Safeway's is marked "15% solution enhanced" or some
such ****.

Check out the sodium content per serving on the back label. You'll find a sodium
content of about 450mg. Perdue, or any other label, which *isn't* enhanced with
this solution has only about 50-70 mg of sodium per serving.

Unreal!


John H

On the 'PocoLoco' out of Deale, MD,
on the beautiful Chesapeake Bay!

"Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it."
Rene Descartes