"This is just what we do – we are not an animal sanctuary. We give the pigs the best opportunity and the best life they could have for six months." She noted that her farm lets its animals roam free outside and feeds them only organic food.
Farm owner Canon Gerald Osbourne added: "An inevitable part of farming is the death of an animal which gives us the food to eat."
This is the life I've led for 6 years and other humans have for millennia. Our ducks, pigs, and turkeys led a life that meets all of their needs and desires, other than the desire to live forever. And a quick slice of the arteries (first, a stunning blow for the pigs) is a more humane death than being set upon by coyotes, killed by a hawk or owl, or just dying of old age.
Better food for local people, better outcome for the environment, and a better way of life for a young couple and their old, decrepit farm hand.
I would still be eating them if they were treated humanely. Other than the 4H kids, there's no locally raised pork to be had, and they sell them to private folks with big freezers instead of the local meat market.
I dunno, seems like they could have just skipped a step, there.
"This is just what we do – we are not an animal sanctuary. We give the pigs the best opportunity and the best life they could have for six months." She noted that her farm lets its animals roam free outside and feeds them only organic food.
Farm owner Canon Gerald Osbourne added: "An inevitable part of farming is the death of an animal which gives us the food to eat."
This is the life I've led for 6 years and other humans have for millennia. Our ducks, pigs, and turkeys led a life that meets all of their needs and desires, other than the desire to live forever. And a quick slice of the arteries (first, a stunning blow for the pigs) is a more humane death than being set upon by coyotes, killed by a hawk or owl, or just dying of old age.
Better food for local people, better outcome for the environment, and a better way of life for a young couple and their old, decrepit farm hand.
I would still be eating them if they were treated humanely. Other than the 4H kids, there's no locally raised pork to be had, and they sell them to private folks with big freezers instead of the local meat market.
http://www.environews.tv/081517-venison-elk-may-n…
Oh, that is sad.
I always thought CWD meant something [different.]