"deja.blues" wrote:
>
> "Miche" > wrote in message
> ...
> > In article <180220081407375086%ouchimbleeding@ouchimbleeding. com>,
> > dull knife > wrote:
> >
> >> In article >, Miche
> >> > wrote:
> >>
> >> > In article <f%kuj.6506$wG2.2695@trndny09>,
> >> > "deja.blues" > wrote:
> >> >
> >> > > to dear old Bossy when she can't give milk anymore. She gets turned
> >> > > into
> >> > > hamburger and lunchmeat.
> >> > > :-(
> >> >
> >> > How is that any different from the way things were before factory
> >> > farming? Do you think the house cow got to live out her days in happy
> >> > retirement? Nope, she became dinner.
> >>
> >> Miche, don't get upset, now, but I'm going to ratchet this up a
> >> notch... not to pick on you because that could be a painful process for
> >> both of us, but to take up the point...
> >>
> >> It's not being turned into dinner that's the problem. It's the way in
> >> which the turning-into takes place.
> >
> > Oh, I know _that_. I was just amused by the idea that people might have
> > thought that "obsolete" dairy cows _didn't_ get turned into dinner.
>
> I know this to be true, but the average milk-swilling consumer doesn't.

That is is big problem overall, not just with animal derived foods, but
pretty much all foods. Far too many people have no understanding at all
or appreciation of where their food comes from.