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The wonderful state of MS has done it again. Makes us all look like backwoods rednecks.

I can guess pretty quickly why this bill was opposed by the "farmers" here in MS. Just go to any livestock auction in MS and see the horrible conditions that animals arrive there in. Cows are brought in sick, crippled, with open sores, and sometimes barely living. The healthy cows are sold usually to other farmers and you would "think" that the sick ones would be put down or returned to the owner unsold. Think again!! Cattle that don't sell are purchased at a very low price by what we call the 'hamburger' trucks. Eighteen wheelers line up at night after the sale is over and load up all the left over animals to take them to slaughter. The only requirement is that the animal be able to walk up the ramp into the trailer. The people working there are instructed to do whatever it takes to get a sick cow to "walk" up that ramp, including numerous shock with a "cow stick". This is a stick that delivers an electric shock that would probably kill us. Remember this next time you want a cheap hamburger for dinner.

I KNOW this from first hand experience. My husband (now a Sheriff's deputy) used to work part time at the sale barn before he met me. He also worked at a chicken processing plant in his youth. Because of his experiences, he is basically a vegeterian at this point. He knows that there are no laws to protect these animals and no one to even report cruelty to. It's disgusting and a sad reflection on human kind.

Here in rural MS, animals are just animals. I can't tell you how many farmers don't believe that animals feel pain and if they do they are too "dumb" to remember it, in their opinion.

Our Govenor is all about big business and helping out his rich cronies. He doesn't give a crap about animals anymore than he does about public schools. MS is heading down hill fast. I don't know what else to even say at this point.