healthy fiber animals
If you’ve raised livestock for very long you learn that most animals who are not healthy, die and the issue stops there. The old farmers never ate sick animals, those got hauled away/burned/buried. An injured animal that wasn’t drugged is safe to be butchered, but the degree of injury would affect adrenaline and likelihood of toughness, thus the decision would have to be made carefully and that animal might be best as dog food.
You also learn that healthy animals are grown on healthy land where they are rotated regularly to clean pastures. The individual farmer/rancher can’t afford to keep sick animals around and knows how and when to properly dispose of them.
Now the stark contrast here is the feedlot situation or chicken house situation where factory models are applied to livestock. Those are where you have diseased animals put into the food chain, not the private owners, it’s the corporate owners who aren’t actually onsite lovingly caring for all those unhealthily forcefed and drugged animals. Plenty of anonymous workers have reported illegal drug use in those animals, tipping off of when inspectors would be there, etc… The chicken house cleaning causes disabilities among the workers due to the chemicals used, fecal contamination abounds from mechanical evisceration.
You make your choice of which model to support every time you eat and I’m not advocating vegetarianism at all here. I’m advocating supporting local fibers, local foods, and building relationships with your neighbors that create trust and concern for wellbeing for everyone.
Trying to control everyone when the offenders are the corporate factory farms is just shear stupidity, because we all lose when the price of meat is too high for people to be well nourished and the cost of natural fibers goes up because the small guy who does the best job at raising good fleece and healthy animals can’t afford to keep up with govt. red tape.
Disease fear mongering is also part of the media/mind control and pharmaceutical marketing campains. Choose healthy foods and turn off that steady barage of commercials that tell you there’s a pill for everything, and this is less of an issue.
We don’t need to spend more taxpayer money just to lose more rights to LIFE and animal ownership!