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» Robert Dailey - Oh, the Horror!

As a dedicated carnivore, but also a concerned environmentalist, I feel qualified to write about "inhumanity" to animals.
First, we in the U.S. have enjoyed such a standard of life that allows us to take up causes that smack of intellectual imperialism.
The Masai people regularly bleed their cattle for protein by stabbing their jugular with arrows. They then add the blood to the milk. Is that inhumane?
Most cultures in the world have raised livestock. Farmers actually feed these animals to make them fat. They then butcher them to provide protein to the human community. And its not just us fat and happy Americans. Farmers all over the world have been raising (also killing, cooking and eating) the fatted calf (and pigs, and chickens, and oh, yes, geese) for millenia. Inhumane?
I fail to see the relationship between fois gras and starving children. Those children would jump at the chance to eat fois gras, or anything else. The real inhumanity is people's inability to focus on the real issues, not some absurd and irrelevant fixation.

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» Jacqueline Church - Oh, the Horror!

In response to Oh, the Horror! posted by bobcajun:

I raised the issue of hungry children to try to get the food morality police to acknowledge that if humane policies were the actual focus, they might look elsewhere than at a luxury item a small minority ever eat.

My main issue with folks in this current "debate" is that they refuse to tolerate any other view or choices, they narrowly define the argument and they won't stop until we all adopt their view of morality. Smacks of McCarthyism, not tolerance.

I think you and I probably agree on a lot.

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» Robert Dailey - Oh, the Horror!

In response to Oh, the Horror! posted by JChurch:

Yes, Jacqueline, we probably do agree on a lot.
I do understand why you raised the issue and I was just being a little sarcastic to whomever was refering to you as an "inhumane boor."
One of the essences of true free speech is that people can agree to disagree without resorting to epithets. And yes, it does msack of McCarthyism.
I see that there is another letter to you from someone saying that you named them as the culprit in your blog.

So I reread your blog, and, unless you laid something between the lines that was invisible to me, I didn't see any names attributed to the statement "inhumane boor" in your blog.

Whoever wrote that email must have misread your blog.

I hope that whoever they are, they will reread your blog before jumping to conclusions and asking you to apologize or retract something you did not do, say or write.

by the way, I do like your blogs and your articles very much. Keep them coming.

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» Jacqueline Church - Oh, the Horror!

In response to Oh, the Horror! posted by bobcajun:

Thank you for the support! I was labeled by the animal rights group many things, I thought the inhumane boor label was also theirs, but they disavow it. It may have been that the Miami New Times editorial staff applied that judgement.

It is clear that Mr. King and possibly his members haven't read my many posts on sustainable agriculture, supporting heirloom breeds, family farms, etc., etc. Regardless of the Miami New Times editorial page, the animal rights forum Mr. King organized also pilloried me. Perhaps I should wear a scarlett letter "O" (Omnivore)

Part of the problem with trying to have a dialogue with people who refuse to actually listen...

If it was the paper who labeled me as such I would be surprised. But if so, then I stand corrected. I would only add that the way I was treated by Brad King and his group members was just as bad, if not worse than a silly and inaccurate label.

But, again, I thank you for your support!

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