farmerjan
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I cannot understand the total stupidity of people that write laws who have NO IDEA of what really happens on a farm. Especially a farm that is trying to be both profitable and a good land steward..... The first thing I thought as I read that was AI breeding, and preg checking, and the normal "BSE breeding soundness exam" which is to stimulate a bull to collect a small sample of semen to check for viability. The safety of all the people who use AI to breed rather than deal with a live bull on the farm... the profitability of not keeping open cows that are not going to help the bottom line. Or using a bull that for whatever reason, is "shooting blanks" and destroying a whole seasons breeding....
I am totally against perverted "sexual acts" against an animal.... but really..... You would not even be able to do an ultra-sound for preg checking let alone a simpler palpation.
I think all the ones that support these type things ought to TOTALLY, 100%, follow what their laws decree. Which means they can only buy milk or meat from someone who has cattle strictly on pasture, no selective breeding but using a live bull, waiting for the animal to be 60 months old before butcher....( ain't those steaks going to be sooooo tender.... ) eating nice old chickens (tougher than shoe leather) only having eggs during the "natural season" when mother nature dictates they are to produce eggs for reproduction... namely the springtime so that the chicks have the best chance to survive.... I mean, you can go on and on about some of this.
Not to mention the jobs that will be destroyed..... and the land that will be sitting idle, growing up into brush and then trees, and not productive trees but what ever manages to sprout....
Totally beyond belief.
I am totally against perverted "sexual acts" against an animal.... but really..... You would not even be able to do an ultra-sound for preg checking let alone a simpler palpation.
I think all the ones that support these type things ought to TOTALLY, 100%, follow what their laws decree. Which means they can only buy milk or meat from someone who has cattle strictly on pasture, no selective breeding but using a live bull, waiting for the animal to be 60 months old before butcher....( ain't those steaks going to be sooooo tender.... ) eating nice old chickens (tougher than shoe leather) only having eggs during the "natural season" when mother nature dictates they are to produce eggs for reproduction... namely the springtime so that the chicks have the best chance to survive.... I mean, you can go on and on about some of this.
Not to mention the jobs that will be destroyed..... and the land that will be sitting idle, growing up into brush and then trees, and not productive trees but what ever manages to sprout....
Totally beyond belief.