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Has anyone ever watched the show on FX called "30 Days?" Great show. They did an episode about animal rights where they had a North Carolina avid hunter move in with a family of PETA folks in California. After his experience, he'll still hunt, but he also became a bit of an activist for more humane treatment of farm animals after he saw what sure looked like animal abuse on some farms.
I could really see where he was coming from. I'm a pretty solidly left leaning guy, but the whole PETA movement makes me want to punch someone... I pretty much find their whole line of thought to be about as stupid as it gets. I see it as a sign that we as a nation are too well-off when we start caring more about if someone is the "owner" or "master" of a dog instead of the health and well-being of the actual people in our communities.
Still... I like the idea of free-range chickens and humane treatment of animals... it doesn't mean it is a slippery slope. It does feel like the ballot measure might be too great a shock to the system though... it would be great if we could encourage farmers to move in this direction without a law being created that could cause all sorts of havoc and mayhem. The impacts of forcing folks to go this route seems like a real problem... not exactly what the state needs from a financial perspective.
I'm going to vote against this ballot measure probably... but what I will do is buy Prather Ranch meat when I can find it (http://prmeatco.com/mission.html), and I'll buy eggs from free range chicken, organic milk and so on. We actually have the tools ourselves to move agriculture in the direction we might want it to go... it's the pocketbook and you can cast a vote with it a lot more often than you get to vote for ballot measures or Presidents.
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