{"id":461,"date":"2006-03-21T13:51:49","date_gmt":"2006-03-21T13:51:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hostkabob.com\/vote\/?p=461"},"modified":"2006-03-21T13:51:49","modified_gmt":"2006-03-21T13:51:49","slug":"32006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=461","title":{"rendered":"3\/20\/06"},"content":{"rendered":"

Met David “Laughing Horse” Robinson. During the 2003 Recall Election in California, he was one of 130 people who ran for Governor (which Arnold Schwarzenegger eventually won). Robinson said he is the head of the Kawaiisu Tribe here and is also an Art Instructor at UCLA. He came in 15th place in the Governor’s race. Robinson said figures showed the top 30 finishers (except for him) each spent at least $1 million on their respective campaigns. He said he spent $1,000… I interviewed Orville Brum, who used to manage one of the biggest dairy farms in the San Joaquin Valley. (It was near Maderna, CA.) He said dairy farms these days are going the way of Wal Mart and all the other big chains [read (my emphasis): going the way of greed<\/em>]. And this is incrementally driving the small dairy farmers out of business… The National Agriculture Museum in Tulare, California, is — for the most part — a celebration of the evolution to mega farming in this country. And I was aghast at how skewed our paradigm about agriculture has become. The kids and I viewed a brief film on mega dairy confinement farms. Thousands of cows squeezed into small pens and on small, dirt and excrement filled feed lots. (As opposed to grazing free on acres grass.) We’ve seen these confinement farms all over the country and the conditions are deplorable. What’s more, many of these farms are using toxic, artificial hormones to increase cow size and milk production… Yet the film. amazingly — and with a good deal of propoganda spin — made one of these confinement farms in the Valley here look like it was ‘Cow Paradise.’ Note:<\/strong> The Catholic Rural Life Association has come out with a statement saying establishing a confinement farm (for cows, chickens…) is cruelty to animals and serious sin. Connecting the dots: consuming milk, eggs, meat… that come from these farms must be: sin, too. The answer:<\/strong> To buy, for instance, organic milk from farms where the cows are free range and grass fed. And to stand in solidarity with protests against these confinement farms at every turn (letters to the editor, letters to legislators, getting involved with rural actions to block these farms…)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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