Its a kite its a plane its George Jetson no its a pair of bald eagles looking for something dead.

Roswell horse slaughter plant set to open despite government bovine fecal matter

The extent that our Government is going to in order to prevent a citizen of this country to operate a legal and needed business is in itself criminal. All business owners should take notice and more importantly say thank you to the undying intestinal fortitude of one Rick De Los Santos for the fight.

Roswell horse slaughter plant set to open

But New Mexico Attorney General Gary King filed a lawsuit in a state district court last Thursday to block plans to reopen carrying out promises by his office and those of New Mexico Governor Susana Martinez that the state was prepared to do everything possible to prevent the plant from ever slaughtering horses.

King argued last week that Valley Meat has the potential to violate food safety laws, and cited that as the reasons for this latest lawsuit.

link here to whole story

Animal Rights Whackjob quote of the day UMMM you are a LIAR fur is in at 30 year high in fact

"Fur is now unfashionable amongst right minded people. People know how cruel it is to get fur. It's cruel and uncivilised,"

To read Daily Record story

Queen Elizabeth is the pawn in the animal rights chess game this week. The fact simply do not match there claims. More importantly the greenest most renewable fiber anyone can wear is the natural fur bearing fibers.

From the Missoulian

The demand for fur is on the rise and prices are booming, providing a windfall to Montana trappers who say their industry has hit a 30-year high.

A recent story by National Public Radio said the retail fur industry held an estimated worth of $15.5 billion last year – an increase of 45 percent from 10 years ago.

Today's animal rights whackjob quote of the day on wolf hunting

Salmon, ID recently sponsored a wolf hunting derby

But lately that way of life has come under scrutiny after a local outfitter announced a wolf derby in which hunters will be given cash prizes for killing wolves.

Several in the town of 3,000 say they've received threatening e-mails and Facebook messages from all over the world.

"Sick [expletives] like you need to be removed from the planet. I hope a pack of wolves eviscerates you and leaves your worthless carcass to die slowly, painfully and alone."

http://www.localnews8.com/news/salmon-residents-receive-death-threats-over-wolfhunting-contest/-/308662/23616330/-/lin9re/-/index.html

Things that make you go HMMM and thank a duck hunter.

Top 3 Largest National Christian Populations:

US - 246,780,000 (79.5% of the Population) 
Brazil - 175,770,000 (90.2% of the Population) 
Mexico - 107,780,000 (95% of the Population) 

http://christianity.about.com/od/denominations/p/christiantoday.htm

Still in Fargo where it is so cold it takes 2 tow trucks to get me in the shop.

@bretoelke is speaking right now at ND Poultry Convention in Fargo. Oh and I am ALL smiles ask him about last item

Fear mongering comes in shrimp size bites too

Wow this sounds a lot like the rhetoric against modern livestock production. Oh wait it is the same. So I am not in favor of imported food although if you have been enjoying shrimp with no ill effects why would you change your consumption habits now?

Why You May Never Want to Eat Shrimp Again

By the numbers, shrimp is America's No. 1 seafood by a long shot, and a whopping 85 percent of the shrimp we eat is imported. Some is farmed, and some is wild. And when it arrives in the U.S.,  almost none of this food is ever inspected.

When it is inspected, some of the top reasons it's rejected are "filth," salmonella, and residues of banned veterinary drugs. (Hungry yet?)

Overseas, shrimp is often farmed in ponds that are treated with a long list of chemicals: urea, superphosphate, diesel, piscicides (fish-killing chemicals like chlorine and rotenone), pesticides, antibiotics (including some that are banned in the U.S.), sodium tripolyphosphate (a suspected neurotoxin), borax, and occasionally caustic soda.

Link here for whole story

Here is today Animal Rights Whackjob movement, this time in the Government

SHOULD goldfish have a voice in parliament? Marianne Thieme, leader of the Dutch Party for the Animals (PvdD) thinks so. Ever since the party won two seats in parliament in 2006, its members have been busy, asking more written questions than most and tabling motions on topics from biotech to halal slaughter to the life of goldfish.

Link to full story

The truth in animal protein production slowly but surely leaking out

With glimmers of truth about modern livestock agriculture surfaces in the particular NPR blog piece it still ignores the fact that animals when managed properly are beneficial to planet and human health. All in all I will take this as a step in the right direction.

Industrial Meat Bad, Small Farm Good? It's Not So Simple

And when it's harder to feed animals, they also produce more emissions. For example, cattle scrounging for food in arid East Africa might release the equivalent of 1,000 pounds of carbon for every pound of protein they produce. Compare that with many parts of the U.S. and Europe, where a cow might generate about 10 pounds of carbon per pound of protein.

 

The paper also reminds us that India is the world's biggest producer of milk and China, the largest producer of pork. Asia accounts for 55 percent of global pork production, dwarfing Europe (26 percent) and the U.S. (17 percent).

Link to whole story here

Here is today's Whackjob Animal Rights quote

"The Rights of Nature," Roderick Nash describes human progress as the act of granting rights — first to white men who owned property, then to all white men, then to women, then to people of color, etc. Extending the base of that pyramid into the animal kingdom is man's next act of contrition for ten thousand years of domination.

http://www.nationalreview.com/human-exceptionalism/366502/natureanimal-rights-would-be-folly-wesley-j-smith