I was really interested in your numbers about the $$$$ involved with
skipping one meal per week.
But we raise cattle, and I dairy-farmed for 25 years, and not all
meat/dairy products are produced in the "big" farm picture.
Lots of farmers and livestock producers are doing what they think is best
for the health and welfare of the crops and livestock they grow. The
almighty buck is just a necessary evil of the banker. Most farmers get
less than a 2% return on investment on everything they own, and usually do
not even calculate a return on labor for the hours they work. It would be
too depressing to even think about.
Livestock producers check cattle 7 days a week, often every 2 hours all
day and night long, in calving season. We take calves into the house to
try and get them warmed up in cold weather, and learn how to give IVs and
shots and medications only if necessary to get them to live. The stories
I can tell you about farmers putting their livestock before themselves and
their families are endless.
Even the big boys try and get the livestock to live. Essential to their
bottom line. I read an article once about comparing the hormones in
beef to that in fresh lettuce, and the lettuce was much higher.....but I
have to find it again. I will try and not put out that kind of info
without a direct source.
We feed our own cattle out, and do no implants or hormones, and there
isn't a market for selling 60 head of cattle handled this way, to offset
the extra costs.
There is a gap between the small operations that grown things this way,
and people concerned about these issues.
Just an honest opinion/observation from "the other side"
Karen
>
> You make a good point as to what would happen if we all fasted one day a
> week. I think I posted a few months back something about the effect
> Fast-5 would make on the economy if only one million people went on
> Fast-5. If I save $200 a month by not eating lunch or dinner, you
> multiply that times one million, you would take $200,000,000 out of the
> food industry per month! That would be quite a hit to the food growers
> and animal farmers. BUT... along the same lines, since they wouldn't have
> to make so much food, we might be able to go back to a more humane way of
> raising animals than what is used now, like Heather mentioned. The
> animals would be happier and we might be as well.
>
> -Rick
>
>
>
> --- In fast5@yahoogroups.
>>
>> Yea, I know. It was a touchy question to ask. I do not associate myself
>> with any religion, but I think many religions do use fasting as a
>> spiritual practice, just not on a regular (monthly, weekly, daily)
>> schedule. If I'm wrong about this, let me know.
>>
>> I know some groups that try to do meatless Mondays. I wonder if we
>> should also have Fasting Fridays, for those of us who eat multiple times
>> a day. Or maybe, one day just doesn't cut it, but can you imagine if
>> everyone did fast one day a week, what could happen!?
>>
>> ~Erica
>
>
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