Letters to the Editor
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Well, now, Farm Boy...
That's a much nicer and more reasoned post than your previous ones.
From dictionary.com:
dog-mat-ic - asserting opinions in a doctrinaire or arrogant manner; opinionated.
I, too, grew up on a farm, in a family of hunters (I sometimes went along on the hunt, but never shot an animal. No, I'm not a hypocrite, just didn't want to. I did help dress and clean the animals).
It's exactly this backround that makes the modern meat and dairy industry so dismaying to me. I know it doesn't have to be that way. I'm a city boy now, mostly vegetarian because of the outrageous practices of factory farming. Dairy animals seem to be treated even worse (if that's possible) than the meat animals. Can't even take solace in fish or seafood having lived decently, because most of that is factory farmed now.
Now back in a city with a downtown farmer's market supplied by many Amish farmers, I may investigate a couple of the stands to see if their animals are raised humanely on a sustainable farm (almost all Amish farms I've seen fit this description) and, if so, may resume eating meat or poultry several times a month.