I have been gone for a while. My uncle in Colorado broke three ribs and I went to the ranch to help out for a couple weeks. Lets just say I didn't know what work was until I got there. I won't go very far into it, but the next veggie, anti-meat eating, animal activist hippie I meet is going to get an ear full. I am so tired of these people who spread lies about American agriculture, especially the beef farmers. My Grandpa ranched that land, now my uncles do. The American farmer is the most important, unappreciated, hardest working American.
Most people think of Colorado as a pretty mountain State. There is hundreds of thousands of acres of sandy prairie in the eastern part of the state, and that is where I have spent most of my time in Colorado. The wind blows the cold strait to the bone, sand, dirt and snow blow so hard you can't see in front of you. Cows and sheep dot the country side trying to live on the sparse grass. Free range grass fed cows whose diet has to be supplemented my insilage, hay, and alfalfa mix in the wintertime are the staple livestock of the area.
During one day on the ranch the temperature dropped and snow started coming down sideways in the 50 mph north wind. We had to get in the truck and take hay bales to the cows so that they would survive the weather. We had to lead the cows to windbreaks and get out to cut the strings off the hay bales. My Uncle said, "its pretty hard for a cow to die in a blizzard if her head is in a hay bale." From before the sun comes up to after the sun goes down all my uncle does is work, he's 68 years old and had three broken ribs, he could outwork me and most people any day.
He owns alot of horses, now the horse market is a joke. The animal loving, left wing, bleeding heart-liberals have made it so that horses cannot be harvested in the United States for human consumption. Spain, Italy and France imported horse meat from the United States to serve in their restaurants and stores. Now the American countryside is over loaded with horses who cost more to keep than can be sold for. Humans have been eating horses for thousands of years, I don't see the difference in eating a horse than a cow or any other animal for that matter. I wish the people who passed these a laws would take in all the extra horses we now have and pay for their care for the rest of their lives. The only person who I know who has is Willie Nelson, even he dosen't have the money or land to take in all these horses.
