First off I don't need to do more research. I have done TONS and I mean TONS of research on meat and cruelty etc. Almost all the links you have posted I have already been to about a gazillion times.


I DO know where my meat comes from. Our chickens are raised about 30 minutes away on a "free range" farm, meaning they have about 3 acrres to themselves with seperate feeding areas, living quarters etc. They are not fed pestisides and fed organically grown grain as well. My beef comes from right outside the city limits from Lone Pine Farms, where I get most of my vegetables, especially squash and corn. I have seen their beef cattle, they live VERY well! You can even go there everyday and feed them if you want. Their diary goats and cows are out for you to photograph and or feed. They also have llama milk, ostrich eggs and jerky, horse milk soap etc. Their animals are never fed antibitiotics. Our roosters have their beaks, and are sold as pets or as breeders and a lot of them are shown at our local 4H fairs. Our older cows get retired, yes you heard right, to local farms as pets or they stay at the farm until their death. They do not sell veal, or slaughter male cows. The babies stay with their mother until they are able to go outside on their own. Anyone can visit the farm and they are open everyday. The most busy time of year is Holloween though when everyone comes to the Corn Maze.


I don't know if you have ever been to Eugene Oregon, but we are the land of the hippies. Even our main Supermarket here is all organic, Price Choppers Market of Choice. Most of our clothes are made out of hemp etc. Now I am not a hippy, but I do appreciate eating healthy food. I have lived this long on meat and I am sure I will live a lot longer unless I get ran over by a bus. I don't eat meat often but when I do I like to know where it comes from.


As far as eating at restraunts, most of the places around here get their meat locally and if not well oh well. I am not going to drill a place about where their meat comes from. They have a job to do, and that is to feed me, and if it tastes good I am satified.


Most of my eggs come from the neighbor who lives nextdoor to our house. They are great egg layers but are also pets. Of course they don't lay eggs all the time, so when I can't any from her I go to the Saturday Market.


As far as God, yes I can bring him into this. Of course everyone doesn't believe in God, but there is a reason why we and animals (food) are here. Why is it so bad for humans to eat animals (we are born to eat meat) and not for other animals to eat them? Bobcat, Cougar, bear etc. also eat animals. I don't hear people saying that those animals are being cruel because they eat meat??? That is what we do, we ear plant AND animals, period! If you chose not to that's fine, but I chose to eat what is provided for me and am very thankful for it.