http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2012/10/22/163257176/despite-protest-college-plans-to-slaughter-serve-farms-beloved-oxen

Dh and I had a interesting talk about this very subject and I wanted to share where we came down on it.. This is clearly a very personal subject to us, given that Girl is both family milk cow to be and draft animal.

So DH’s points are

• Didn’t see the logic in putting down the healthy male, he could be used/retrained as a single ox.
• the collage has been presented with a cost nuetral solution with the other one going to the sanctuary.
• The Sanctuary is better Public Relations,  he see’s it as Morels vs Public Relations

Now I see if different, I don’t think that healthy ox should be put down either, i believe that he could be retrained as a singe ox with little to no issues, but as for the other guy, I don’t think that a injury that can be managed is a good life, and I getthe collages point about not passing the buck in terms of his health care etc..

However that is where we also got non-PC, I say if you are going to put him down and the choice is between eating him or rendering him, I say, eat him..

So we took this to our own farm, if Girl needed to be put down at the age of ten to twelve, we both agreed that we might not be able to eat her ourselves at that point but we would certianly have her butchered after having her humanely put down, even if it was to feed the hounds/purrpots, we both really didn’t like the idea of wasting her well-raised humanely treated meat by putting her into the rendering system.

It was interesting to ask about Brandy, know I have and will eat horse meat, but idea of eating Brandy if something happened to her that meant she had to be put down gave me the same feeling as I got at the idea of Girl, I think it a waste to go to the render, and i could use it for the hounds/purrpots but I don’t think I could eat it myself in my current living conditions, by which I mean if I had a choice, I would not..

I hate to say it but Miss Piggy falls into the same way, I am attached to that big gal, just as much as I am to Girl or Brandy.

So where are you coming down on this “Hot Topic”