I couldn’t let one more day pass without writing about these over-the-top protests at Glenview’s Wagner Farm targeting a 4H group.
The first time I read about this in the Chicago Tribune, I did a double take. Really, someone is protesting animal auctions as animal cruelty?
For me, there is no clearer sign of how disconnected we’ve become from our food.
Here’s the controversy. Animals raised on Wagner Farm, which is park district land, and tended to by the 4H Clovers may eventually be sold at auction. And many of those animals are sold for slaughter.
Here’s where I’d like to point out – like many of the dismayed 4H folks have – it’s a farm, not a zoo or an animal sanctuary. And if the concern is really that these animals are destined for factory farms, then work to find a more sustainable alternative. But protesting and pushing to have all animals moved to a sanctuary just makes no sense to me.
If Glenview residents want to see what a real working farm is all about, well, this is part of farming. It’s the circle of life in living color.
The Tribune reports that preserving a real working farm for Chicago area residents to experience was precisely the reason Glenview’s park district purchased the property in the late 1990s. There’s more on the history of Wagner Farm on the park district’s website.
Photo from the Wagner Farm page on the Glenview Park District site.
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We were alway told don't get attached tho the animals we raised and some of them were bottle fed becouse sooner or later they were going to be on the dinner table or on someone elses….I still go by this even with my own kids they know thats there money source it's not just something to do for the day…They know that those cows that Papaw has are going to slaughter sometime it's not a big secret…Thats what they were but here for if every cow,pig,sheep,ect were kept just to look at we would be driving over the tops of them becouse theres not enough space on earth for all of them slaughter for food is a means animal population control…I dont know what the differance is between slaugtering a cow or pig for food or just letting cats and dogs run a round breeding having babie for what the dog catcher to pick them up and what gas them….
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We were alway told don't get attached tho the animals we raised and some of them were bottle fed becouse sooner or later they were going to be on the dinner table or on someone elses….I still go by this even with my own kids they know thats there money source it's not just something to do for the day…They know that those cows that Papaw has are going to slaughter sometime it's not a big secret…Thats what they were but here for if every cow,pig,sheep,ect were kept just to look at we would be driving over the tops of them becouse theres not enough space on earth for all of them slaughter for food is a means animal population control…I dont know what the differance is between slaugtering a cow or pig for food or just letting cats and dogs run a round breeding having babie for what the dog catcher to pick them up and what gas them….
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