This message is from: Don Brackett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
This is truely a distressing topic and one thing that you can do to make a difference as a consumer, is to buy local. Small farmers usually bring their livestock to local slaughter houses. The process is the same but the volume is considerably smaller. At our local butcher they usually have only 2 or 3 cows or a half dozen lambs per day. They have the time and take it to do a good, humane job. We have been there at the slaughter of all our lambs, not pleasent by any stretch but we owe them that (now no longer breeding sheep and this was one main reason). So if you like to eat meat, support those local farmers, buy a big freezer and buy a side of beef or a lamb, or pig locally. The animal usally doesn't travel far and doesn't go through the horror of a crowded slaughter facility.
Thank you Lynda for the time, and emotional effort that you take rescuing horses.
Jane in Maine with two very fuzzy Fjords, who'll die here with us, hopefully of very old age. Already wishing for spring, I'm a warm weather rider.
