By Joyce Bupp
.From across the state, farmers beanburgers or trench-fried tofu,
ffefdl descend on Harrisburg this instead.
week to eyeball the latest industry
innovations at the Farm Show.
It might behoove all us livestock
farmers to take a few moments
from the Farm Show to slip on over
to the Capitol building tor a chit
chat with out state senators.
There’s a bill up tor a vote this
month that could dictate the way
we raise our meats, change some
methods of keeping pets, and
ultimately affect our grocery
budgets.
It’s traveling the legislative
maze under-the guise of a cruelty
to animals bill, but the basic
philosophic movement behind S.B.
1208 is supplied by the animal
weltansts and the vegetarians.
They'd like to change the way
American public eats meat,
making us feel "guilty about
munching finger-lickin’ chicken
and Big Macs, and switching to
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Some of the goodies, this
legislation proposes include.
setting a Ume-lunil per day
and week on the number of hours
you can work a horse. It our Amish
friends need an extra hour of
horsepower to beat a storm to the
hay crop, guess they 're out of luck;
demand shelter tor every
animal at all lim.es. Our cows, who
just love to play lazy on hot
summer days, rather than get
their absolutely necessary exer
cise by walking out to the shade
lined pasture, are probably
laughtmg about that one;
getting caught with any
poultry that had combs docked, my
friends and you’d automatically be
assumed planning a cockfight,i an
illegal event, 1 might add. All
commercial growers now dock •
those combs to keep the birds from
laterally picking each other to
• Poultry houses
• Dairy barns
• Milking parlors
• Storage buildings
• Greenhouses
• Office areas
• Confinement
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netting d u-l-houi Imut on the
length ot tune between milking ot a
cow, supposedly to avoid
■•enlianeemeiit ot her udder." Milk
tever, a tatal body unbalance in
fresh cows, ts always treated by
keeping a cow’s udder tull tor
several hours until her chemicals
can be balanced. Who’d decide
between "enhancement ”, and
keeping an animal from dying?
show dogs could not have their
ears cropped, which has nothing to
do with raising meal animals, but
would attect countless pet owners;
And that’s just a tew ot the
proposals.
The point is that there are
already humane laws in ettecl that
can handle genuine anmial abuse.
Livestock tanners care tor their
herds and docks in the most
humans ways possible not only
because they are investments but
because must do have genuine
concern tor the comtort and
weltare ot those anunals.
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During 1981, Beth handled the
presidency of both the local
chapter and the county
organization. She’s currently
chapter reporter, and has won
recognition in diversified
livestock, salesmanship, meats
judging, and public speaking, an
area that’s earned her a gold
medal at state level.
Also a talented livestock judge,
Beth has completed in evaluating
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tests like the -Harrisburg In
ternational, and at Eastern
competition at Timonium,
Maryland, where she’s placed
fourth.
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hog business, Beth has set aside, at
least temporarily, plans for fur
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Freysville Pork to include
processing and retailing to York
area consumers.
According to John Myers, head
vo-ag instructor at Red Lion Area
High School, that district’s FFA
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estimates that nearly one hundred
members haye earned their
Keystone degrees.
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