Welcome to rising anxieties, where we try to figure out what the industry is anxious about,

and we try to quell our own anxieties, which get bigger every week.

But our first story, this one will entertain you. Well, you know, it a gruesome,

horrible kind of way. This is from Agdaily, and this is by the commentator who we report on quite

frequently. Her name is Michelle Miller, but she calls herself Farm Babe. I'm not going to make any comments this time.

I make fun of that nickname enough.

She calls herself Farm Babe.

All right.

And the title of this particular article is weird, but necessary,

animal care practices in agriculture.

And this is just so interesting because I think that this article

in and of itself proves that animal agriculture is inherently cruelty. We have to stop animal

agriculture. We can't fix it. She admits we can't fix it. She starts off, well, she says,

if you walk into a barn at the right time, you could see a cow

getting a pedicure, sheep getting haircuts, her calves wearing coats. Some of these things

might seem a bit odd or unnecessary, but like so much else, a farmer or rancher does. Therefore,

the comfort, health, and safety of animals.

All right, so she goes through them practice by practice.

Of course, she never considers whether it would be better for the comfort and safety of animals to just not do any of this to them.

No.

If we're going to do this to them, then we have to, basically we have to modify them.

That's the point. We have to modify them in ways because their bodies as they grow just don't fit the needs of the people who want to kill them.

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