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<blockquote data-quote="Dana Kopp" data-source="post: 122176" data-attributes="member: 873"><p>The one thing we all have to remember is that it only takes one instance of a mistreated animal (or the impression of mistreatment) and a well meaning but naive person involving an animal rights person/group and we all end up fighting negative media. The negative media, even one article in the paper or on the news, can do more damage than most people could ever imagine to the local industy.</p><p>Raising animals has its great aspects and its terrible ones. I would bet that all of us have been in the situation where we wished we would have put the animal down rather than let it suffer though recovering from an injury or illness. Hindsight is always 20/20. As a cattle-raiser who sells cattle through our local yards and privately, I want my cattle to look their absolute best for the buyers so I can get top dollar. I can't imagine taking a downer cow and dragging her though the ring, we've been forced to "feed the coyotes" with a couple gals that broke legs over the years and it wasn't even considered to try to get the "last dollar" out of them, but that is us. I know that everyone thinks differently on these matters and "caring" for an animal can be interpreted quite a number of ways, especially when it comes to the almighty dollar. But that dollar is going to get spent or lost when the industry has to fight to prove to people that have no concept of what raising beef/dairy is like (many have never SEEN a real cow) that most of us really do have the animal's best care in mind. </p><p></p><p>Thanks for reading my ramblings, I hope I made a little sense have a great weekend all!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dana Kopp, post: 122176, member: 873"] The one thing we all have to remember is that it only takes one instance of a mistreated animal (or the impression of mistreatment) and a well meaning but naive person involving an animal rights person/group and we all end up fighting negative media. The negative media, even one article in the paper or on the news, can do more damage than most people could ever imagine to the local industy. Raising animals has its great aspects and its terrible ones. I would bet that all of us have been in the situation where we wished we would have put the animal down rather than let it suffer though recovering from an injury or illness. Hindsight is always 20/20. As a cattle-raiser who sells cattle through our local yards and privately, I want my cattle to look their absolute best for the buyers so I can get top dollar. I can't imagine taking a downer cow and dragging her though the ring, we've been forced to "feed the coyotes" with a couple gals that broke legs over the years and it wasn't even considered to try to get the "last dollar" out of them, but that is us. I know that everyone thinks differently on these matters and "caring" for an animal can be interpreted quite a number of ways, especially when it comes to the almighty dollar. But that dollar is going to get spent or lost when the industry has to fight to prove to people that have no concept of what raising beef/dairy is like (many have never SEEN a real cow) that most of us really do have the animal's best care in mind. Thanks for reading my ramblings, I hope I made a little sense have a great weekend all! [/QUOTE]
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