Elk Just Wanna Have Fun

[MrPots]

Memo to self...stay on Joad's good side

[Ike Bana]

Originally Posted by Tom Joad

My old man was an Elk.

All he ever did was go to the Lodge to drink and gamble.

He had this ring and tie clip that had B.P.O.E. on it.

He told me it stood for Best People On Earth.

My old man was a liar.

Originally Posted by Boreas

Let's hope the calf in the video doesn't grow to be like that.

John

I suspect they both pissed in the woods, so that have that in common, eh?

[Tom Joad]

I apologize for the digression.

[BlueStreak]

This is why it kills me when people insist that animals don't think or experience emotion. Anyone who can't see the joie de vie in that video is either blind or callous.

Dave

[MrPots]

Originally Posted by BlueStreak

This is why it kills me when people insist that animals don't think or experience emotion. Anyone who can't see the joie de vie in that video is either blind or callous.

Dave

Indeed. Man makes many assumptions about animals, mostly I think so man can feel superior to them.

We only fool ourselves....

[Boreas]

Originally Posted by MrPots

Indeed. Man makes many assumptions about animals, mostly I think so man can feel superior to them.

We only fool ourselves....

It makes it easier for us to kill them that way.

Not all cultures share that attitude, though.... only the "advances" ones.

John

[Ike Bana]

Originally Posted by Boreas

It makes it easier for us to kill them that way.

Not all cultures share that attitude, though.... only the "advances" ones.

John

For example:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CL5htSOieRI

[MrPots]

I like my beef as much as the next guy...

I was at a stop light in Oklahoma one day when a cattle truck pulled up next to me. A cow looked at me through the holes in the side of the truck. I was struck by it's beautiful and sad eyes. It knew it was going for slaughter. Another time I passed by a feedlot operation in southern Colorado. Must have been a half million head crowded on a 10 acre plot. A mist of piss and shit hung in the area for miles around. The stench was awful. We were going to stop for the night at a nearby town but the smell was so bad we moved on. No animal should live in such conditions.

Corporate farming. Should be outlawed.

That video was wonderful.......

We're supposed to be stewards of the earth, to protect and nurture it and the animals upon it. Instead capitalism has made man the rapists and destroyers of the earth.

Man - the only animal so stupid he would destroy his home for the short tem gain of a dollar bill.

[Pio1980]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_Grandin

Originally Posted by MrPots

I like my beef as much as the next guy...

I was at a stop light in Oklahoma one day when a cattle truck pulled up next to me. A cow looked at me through the holes in the side of the truck. I was struck by it's beautiful and sad eyes. It knew it was going for slaughter. Another time I passed by a feedlot operation in southern Colorado. Must have been a half million head crowded on a 10 acre plot. A mist of piss and shit hung in the area for miles around. The stench was awful. We were going to stop for the night at a nearby town but the smell was so bad we moved on. No animal should live in such conditions.

Corporate farming. Should be outlawed.

That video was wonderful.......

We're supposed to be stewards of the earth, to protect and nurture it and the animals upon it. Instead capitalism has made man the rapists and destroyers of the earth.

Man - the only animal so stupid he would destroy his home for the short tem gain of a dollar bill.

[MrPots]

We need more folks like her