BrutulTM
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Possibly. I don't know a lot about sheep. It is true that you don't want just anyone breeding. We don't keep any bulls ourselves, we buy them from ranches that specialize in raising bulls as a way to avoid inbreeding and to keep introducing desirable genetics.
It's a serious problem. We have a sale here once a year where people buy up a truckload of old horses and I believe haul them to Canada where they can be slaughtered. It has completely destroyed the market for horses to the point where you basically can't give an old or unbroken horse away and people who can't afford to keep their horses or find someone to take them are letting them starve or abandoning them somewhere for someone else to deal with. It's hard to see how shutting down horse slaughtering was a "humane" thing to do but I suppose it sounds good to the average uninformed city dweller.
Very few people in the US are involved in agriculture anymore. 100 years ago the majority of people either grew up on a farm or ranch or at least had family that did. Now people are many generations away from participating in any kind of agriculture and it causes a serious lack of perspective. Even the movement to "know where your food comes from" and support your local sanitized organic hippy farmer is really kind of delusional. I have no problem with those people at all, but it's important to realize that they are NOT the people who are feeding the country nor are they capable of it.
The only animals most people have any experience with these days are their anthropomorphized dogs and cats, which are really a lot different than livestock and people don't understand that. I think if people had spent even a week or two working with livestock they would have a completely different perspective.
Wait a minute, this thread is about raping and eating children right?
