plight of the farmed
Posted By: romey on 2005-08-09
In Reply to: Thanks, i'd be interested to learn more - animal advocate
The link that I would start with is Farmusa.org and check out their site, plus they list many websites for the advocasy of farm animals in the meat industry. I went to their animal rights convention in DC last year never having been to such a thing and became a vegitarian that day. Yes some of it is very hard to watch and I don't ever want to watch it again, but it is so imblazoned on my memory that it was the way I could finally stop eating meat after wanting to for a long time. I have still not quit with the dairy, but plan to in the near future as the dairy industry is probably worse than the meat industry because the chickens and the cows have to indure nightmarish lives for years. If you don't want to watch the graphic stuff of the slaughter houses, may I suggest a very powerful movie called "Peaceable Kingdom", Farm should have a link to it. It is put out by Tribe of Heart. It tells the plight of the farm animals in a kind gentle way, but does get the message out of the cruelty and plight of these animals. Please check out this information and spread the word. Thanks so much for wanting to listen and having an open heart to this very sensitive subject, again ALL FOR THE ANIMALS. Thanks for listening. Sincerely
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II) How can they do this to people during the holidays? I would think that if I am upset, then the other ICs must be also. There might be a mass exodus of steaming ICs out there.
III) One of your posts made mention the MTSO should have a sufficient line of credit to cover their ICs. I suspect that they DID, as in USED TO, but may not anymore, which makes me wonder what happened on that score. Used it too many times? Took too long to pay it back?
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Who could pay their bills with this kind of payment history. Every check has been late since I started with them in April. I have many years of experience. I had planned to buy a house. How can I do that with this type of situation going on?
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