Random thought #3... & a little Ted Shred

If you had to kill all the meat you eat, would you eat meat?

Seriously. Think about it.

If you had to kill a cow to eat filet mignon, would you do it? If you had to wring a chicken's neck to have chicken marsala, would you? Would you kill a pig for a pork chop? A calf for veal parmesan?

I don't know about you, but I probably wouldn't.

Perhaps we humans eat more meat than we should because meat has become too easy to obtain. And who suffers? Both animals and us. We get fat. And high blood pressure. And hardening of the arteries. The animals get confined to small spaces for much of their lives, and most farm animals are slaughtered before their first birthday. Don't bother even mentioning the affects on the environment, evolution, natural selection or the food chain.

Something tells me that if there were a Cows or Pigs Local 194, these conditions wouldn't fly. But there is no cows union, and pigs are always killed before they have the right to vote.

I'm no PETA pusher, however after hearing all of the reports about mistreated farm animals, nasty feed lots and appalling slaughterhouse conditions, shouldn't we rethink the rules regulating the production of commercial meat? Doesn't quality beat quantity? Isn't less, more?

That's why I'm a Ted Nugent fan.

"Cat Scratch Fever" and "Wang Dang Sweet Puntang" don't top the charts anymore, but you've got to give this guy credit for his positive stance on hunting and using the harvest of those animals to feed his family. I'd much rather be a wild turkey on Ted Nugent's Thanksgiving table than a well-fed, farm-raised pig in that Italian sausage sold at the ballpark.

We really should give the farm animals a voice. Afterall, if farm animals could talk and knew what we were going to do to them, they'd be killing us, not the other way around.