Although I am for the humane treatment of animals, including those that I eat, I want to know that they have been humanely raised and humanely slaughtered. Growing up on a farm unfornutaly I know the difference. In mass slaughter you know the animals are treated horribly in our industries here in the good ole USA. Wish people knew what they were eating Never would I eat a baby anything. Just can't do that. Have you ever seen how inhumanely calves are raised? {Veal?} Ever see the cages animals grow up in awaiting their brutal slaughter? They can't even lie down in them or stretch out. If a pkg of meat does not have a sticker saying, raised humanely, we don't purchase it. Only health food stores sell it and very few large markets. None in our area. A radical approach to getting the publics attention is not my thing and that is what Peta is all about. Chickens that have had their feet tampered with and their beaks, and have to be raised mingled with {very inhumane}thousands of others with no place to exercise and natural food stuffs to be had from natural farming can't be good for us either. Our country is just as brutal as any other country in our ways of raising livestock, only we hide it from the public better . Cheeses made here in the US have such a condensed amount of pesticides in it and we just are not told that. Milk also. Pesticides that are sprayed on the crops that the cows eat, goes right into our food source, our dairy products.. Hope I made your day. There are many wonderful , so far, freedoms here in our country, one of which is to put just about anything into our food source so as to make more profit. It is a lot easier than attempting to make laws that would require no hormones and no pesticides. The good news is that more farmers are setting a few acres aside and cleaning up the soil, then enriching it to grow organic crops, because more people are becoming aware of why we are an unhealthy nation, and how we really should eat. You probably know all this but just in case you don't, thought i would ramble on. If there were a bigger denabd for healthier farming methods, it could happen, and slowly is. The sad part of this is that until that happens only the rich can afford to eat healthily.
