Agricultural practices that harm animals are unacceptable

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Dear State News Editorial staff,

Kindly put an end to the he-said/she-said between SPAR/PETA and the intelligent world in your op-ed section. It’s getting stale.

What I find so funny is SPAR just like it’s parent PeTA are more then willing to talk about the few farms that treat animals poorly. Just like any other industry in this country you are going to have your good and your bad. But to smear an entire industry because a few whack jobs ( yes I said whack jobs) feel the need to force their opinions on everyone. I eat meat and I work in an industry where I sell meat products everyday. Do I protest, write opinion pieces, etc, on why you should eat meat? No it’s my personal preference. I should also mention that throughout my career I have visits numerous plants and factories ranging from fish to cattle in order to see how things are processed and made. I saw nothing but the best in the industry. But according to SPAR and it’s followers I should condemn these practices because they deem it unacceptable. Grow up and realize that everyone in the world is entitled to their own opinion and we don’t accept having you and the rest of SPAR shoving things down our throats.

The biggest problem I see with SPAR is they just won’t leave the preaching of becoming a vegetarian out of ANY of their letters or columns. It does nothing but turn off several people, me included, from anything they have to say. If these nut jobs seriously want to change things, they need to look at changing how they get their message across. Why don’t you guys actually provide meaningful data? Why not do more research into things like how McDonald’s or Burger King or any other restaurant obtains their meats? Target that kind of stuff and get that message out. Quit over generalizing the entire industry. You’d have more of an impact on people if you could show them that the Big Mac they’re eating came from suffering, beaten cows, and led protests against McDonald’s than simply saying, “Don’t eat meat until the industry changes!”. This is how PeTA got KFC to change. Think People, think.

Katherine, if you would have read Greg’s article, and actually considered what he said, you would not have sounded so completely idiotic in your rebuttal in today’s paper. If you would educate yourself even just a little bit, you would know that swine farms no longer clip needle teeth on baby pigs, but when they did, there was a reason. See, when baby pigs are born, they have very sharp teeth on the edge of their mouth, which can cut and injure the sows teat. Next, the reason that tails are cut on the baby pig, is because pigs can become cannibalistic, and when a pig removes part of the tail or even the whole thing, it is not pretty. Next, if you can castrate a pig with scissors, you have probably the sharpest pair of scissors in the world. Most farms use sterile scalpels or razor blades. Lastly, nobody brands with a hot iron anymore, when they are, cattle are freeze branded, which feels just like having a wart removed.

That being said, perhaps you should educate yourself before you go and start making accusations, it will make you sound much less ignorant.

“ …it will make you sound much less ignorant.”

I don’t know it that is possible for Katherine. There are TONS of farms in Northville! QQ

Animals have rights too……. to be eaten! Who cares how we kill them or if it is humane? It’s an animal, it doesn’t know!

More power to the hamburger? Stop the processing of cheese?