It only take a few nasty people to leave a certain bad taste in your mouth. Being new to bogging, I did not know comments by others would not automatically post. THANK GOODNESS!
I have not retaliated, I have not posted comments on any of the Pro Horse Slaughter blogs because even if I don’t agree, they are entitled to their opinion. I am going to delete the nasty emails I have received. I am not going to bash ALL pro slaughter supporters because a small handful were rude.
Being raised in the country and learning about life and death on the farm probably caused me to have a different perspective than some. As a child, I came to the understanding that animals sometimes decomposed in the field, others were buried to decompose and enrich the soil, and sometimes they were picked up by a rendering service. I thought it was the natural progression for those animals to be part of the cycle of life and when comments about glue factories were made, I thought it was an honor for them to be the same glue that allowed me to create something new in art class.
As I got older I realized other people actually ate horse-meat. Horsemeat didn’t appeal to me, but those who did weren’t trying to cram it down my throat that I couldn’t have beef or pork or chicken or anything else.
When all the attention got focused on the horse slaughter plants, I truly thought it was a good thing. If inspections weren’t being done, that needed to be handled. If procedures were not followed in the kill room — get them fixed. If the trucking end of things needed attention, get it taken care of.
Instead – it snowballed into a big ugly entity of it’s own that has caused division and strife across America.
Why do ALL of us find it is easier to make noise, throw time and money at debating and force feeding our opinion on an issue instead of finding a solution.
With all the money spent on this issue both Pro and Con, wouldn’t a workable solution have been significantly cheaper? I had an employer years ago who said – If you don’t have a solution to the problem, you’re just whining.
Folks we’re not accomplishing anything —–we’re all just whining.
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