This morning when I was dropping off Hunter at Mark and Teri’s I stopped to meet the new cows they just got. They get cows in the early part of the year, let them live off the land and have a really happy life on the farm, then butcher them late in the year. I am ok with this (not that I have any say in it) but it’s still sad to see the cows go. My biggest“beef” (heh) with meat eating (I’m sure most know, I’m a veggiesaurus) is the inhumane treatment of animals at factory farms and the not knowing where your meat comes from. They can put hormones and all kinds of crap in them to fatten them up and you just don’t know. Why put the unknown into your body? (I know veggies can have pesticides as well, but I gotta eat something)
Interestingly as well, the recent swine flu outbreak is being related to factory farm of pigs. So yeah, if you eat the meats, try and buy local and organic!
Anyways, I got off topic there, back to the story of #1…
Last summer I became buddies with the farm cows and we had fun hand feeding them apples.
RIP Smokey Joe and Horny (seen here).
This year I have fallen in love with #1. I just snapped some pictures below with my Iphone this morning, but I'm sure you'll see more of him in the months to come. He's the one upfront in the first picture and on the far left of the second picture. He is super friendly and I want to keep him. He can live in our backyard!
I think me and #1 are at least going to have a fun summer together. Oh, I'm calling him #1 cuz the tag in his ear is the number 1. Teri has named him Billy Idol, but he'll still be #1 in my book. :)
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