This message is from: "Peter Randall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Andy, I certainly apologize to you if you were offended by my remarks. No offense was intended.
It was a question, "How does one become numb enough to work in a slaughterhouse?" Emotional? Yes, but an honest question I thought. One answer might be because it was the only way to put food on the table. Fair enough, I would not try to argue that. I think we all must remember that the list is really a bunch of Fjord people getting together for tea and having discussions while looking at the horses out the window. One says that horse is bowlegged another says it is a fine specimen. Great, this creates discussion and we all learn. Email is dangerous though as all the inflections, tone and facial expressions are lost. We were discussing big factory processing slaughterhouses, not the type your dad ran. Obviously as long as people enjoy meat (and I do) we need some type of slaughterhouses. That does not mean that a) we need to slaughter animals as smart as Fjords that were previously pets and b) that we have to be unduly cruel and harsh in our treatment of animals headed to and at the slaughter. The entire thread was Fjord related because it was started by a "Three Fjords headed to slaughter!" email. Sometimes as threads weave throughout posts, we will hear of kids, dogs, geese, occupations, events, etc. We won't always agree on things but we learn about each other, our lives, beliefs and beautiful Fjords. On occasion we may unknowingly offend and then we can only say that we are sorry for doing such. W Peter Randall Randall Farms [demime 0.99c.8 removed an attachment of type text/x-vcard which had a name of W. Peter Randall PM CHRP.vcf]
