Everything I want to do is illegal

James_Newman · Aug 29, 2007

http://www.mindfully.org/Farm/2003/Everything-Is-Illegal1esp03.htm

I want to dress my beef and pork on the farm where I’ve coddled and raised it. But zoning laws prohibit slaughterhouses on agricultural land. For crying out loud, what makes more holistic sense than to put abattoirs where the animals are? But no, in the wisdom of Western disconnected thinking, abattoirs are massive centralized facilities visited daily by a steady stream of tractor trailers and illegal alien workers.

But what about dressing a couple of animals a year in the backyard? How can that be compared to a ConAgra or Tyson facility? In the eyes of the government, the two are one and the same. Every T-bone steak has to be wrapped in a half-million dollar facility so that it can be sold to your neighbor. The fact that I can do it on my own farm more cleanly, more responsibly, more humanely, more efficiently, and in a more environmentally friendly manner doesn’t matter to the government agents who walk around with big badges on their jackets and wheelbarrow-sized regulations tucked under their arms.
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hillclimber1 · Aug 29, 2007

Just do it. Some rules are wrong. If a cougar (protected around here) comes into my yard where my grandchildren play, it will be killed, buried, and forgotten by tomorrow.

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