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What some are doing when they bash farmers with their “factory farming” as accusations is the equivalent of freaking out when driving down the road and seeing horses in pens that are wearing fly masks and believing they are being abused by being kept blind so they don’t jump fences to get out from their prisons (true story).
More illogic and a crazy assumption by you. Though a few misguided people might wrongly accuse good owners of bad treatment, that is NOT the same as recognizing the documented and observed bad treatment of animals that does exist.[/QUOTE]
Ever give a thought what abuse is?
Didn’t think so.
As I say, animal rights extremists use the abuse card because it works.
People in general are not very good at logic and they know that and work on emotions, that tend to carry the day where logic fails.
Are all teachers suspect of abuses because there are documented and prosecuted and convicted teachers?
All churches, police departments, doctors, you name it?
I expect in some eyes, yes, some may just look at any one person as part of their group with suspicion after hearing that someone in that group was an abuser.
Why do you think an abuse video in a dairy are released by animal rights groups right before important voting drives to hamper or ban dairies?
People are very good at generalizing, tend to miss the trees for the forest, logic fails them there.
Those in agriculture have double trouble with this, because we, that is ALL of us, those that have any animals to care for, even pets, unlike teachers and policemen and doctors, etc., we have very strong, powerful, rich beyond measure non-profit groups that make their living out of persecuting any and all that have animals.
Up to now, those groups had the money and resources to swamp whole societies with their message, “owning animals is wrong!”, in their opinion, out of reality in our world.
In the age of the internet, the information age, they have realized that now the general public has access to who they really are, that others can play their game and expose them for the extremists they are, no more cute kitten looking sad out of a cage in mailings will convince everyone to send them money.
Well, that is one reason they have been changing their tactics, laying low, their presence muted and their attacks on animal ownership now more subtle, thru lobbying, putting their people in regulatory positions, attacking first animal agriculture, tying in with other such non-profit extremist groups, “agriculture is bad for the planet!”, again, in their opinion, heck in their opinion, that this blue marble has humans is a mistake, off with everyone’s head, leave the earth to the cute critters!
My point, remember to at least listen carefully to all sides before deciding who to follow, because things as presented are not always as they seem.
