@boomerexpert @flib ..I think if anyone watched a video like meet your meat, or any video on utube about factory farming....they would keel over and faint....but they will not look and pretend they are not part of the intense cruelty done to these animals. They should own up to paying to have these animals tortured.!! Oh God! Don't start me. Pardon the rant.

@auntnanny, Arthritis is a drag, I get occassional flares in my knees, hips, and hands. The knees are the worst. I do a 10 round of prednisone and that clears it up for a long period of time. Have you ever done a 10 day taper of prednisone for it?

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Alleycat, I'm with you. Perhaps a hundred years from now, people will look back at the horrific way we treated animals and wonder what kind of species we were.

@allaycatkate that is why we need more farmers like in the old days to raise and treat good the animal.  I was raised on a farm and the animal were our friends and my father would never let us know when one was needed for food. They were kill right on the spot

no suffering but today money talks! Not only animals are badly treated but children are now separated from their parents! What a shame a for a develop country. What century are we going back? My ancestors were deported the same way in 1755.? Unbelievable!

Cruelty is beyond my believe. All the crualty to animals, women, childrens  in this world

@nick52 It seems we have lost some of our humanity...My heart aches thinking of the suffering...and especially to the innocents. Nick...What a fun childhood, growing up with baby piglets and lambs as your friends.

@windwalker...have you ever seen the documentary "Food Inc" that shows more of what you described??? terri from tdrell

@nick52...a brief neutral comment.....l do donate some time and money to support my political beliefs....but l am careful not to watch too many news shows ..even .those that agree with my political beliefs...l either watch old time movies...especially the Fred Astaire/Ginger Rogers type or the Food Network. I feel to do otherwise gets me too agitated/stressed and this affects my physical self.onlI only spend time with like thinking friends....family and spouse all think like l do. I feel very lucky/blessed.tdrell

With you all the way, been a vege since I was 18, loooooooove animals, so beautiful and hate the cruelty. I Support animal charities , they are all fantastic.

@tdrell Yes, I have seen Food Inc. Abysmal documentary.