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 >GRION HELPS to heat IN WINTER! HELPS TO COOL IN SUMMER! 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