A Farmer’s Plight – Do You Care?

America’s backbone, our family farmers, are rapidly losing their marrow
Everyone seems to want a piece of the farmer causing profit margins to narrow

Highly edited and out of context videos depict select animal abuse
Why is telling America that happy cows are more productive therefore more profitable of so little use?

Family farmers produce food for a starving world yet they are attacked from all directions
Almost as if it was a master plan that even includes multiple Columbus Dispatch sections

To solve societies’ ills seem to simply require agricultures’ evils solution
Heck, even the Amish, yes the Amish, are under attack for pollution

HSUS and friends claim that they are only after societies’ factory farm’s ilk
Yet their website talks of the diet elimination of meat, eggs, cheese and milk

For Heavens’ sake - what do you think most family farms produce?
HSUS - Wayne Pacelle and friends will never call a permanent truce

For them to call any truce will definitely take major political influence
Political power big enough to neuter Wayne Pacelle’s power and affluence

How active are FFA, 4-H, Agriculture Extension, CAFES, OAAE, OARDC and agribusinesses in the fight?
No need to get involved – it’s the farmers plight don’t you see - so some stay neutral and out of site

Farmers are in numbers so few, and yes a very select few farmers may abuse
However, heinous practices are not the norm for family farmers to use!

Maybe farmers should suggest a TAX on every citizen in America that does not assist with the production of food
This money would go to our full time farmers although, the tax would likely only cause our farmers to get further criticized, and booed

Wayne Pacelle (HSUS) and friends despise freedom of enterprise
He and his friends work to whittle the number of livestock farms down to size

The United Nations says 1 billion people are starving in the world
In spite of this fact, animal rights groups’ attacks continue to be unfurled

Why does HSUS, Wayne Pacelle, their friends, and most media, always assume that family farmers are guilty until proven innocent?
Farmers are not the ones deceiving, therefore, having a need to repent!

Americas community’s backbone is its’ family farmers, although attacks continue
Yes, camouflaged snares are being set, then sent to the media a willing venue

For a barometer on how farmers are doing check out finances in your schools
A law of nature - if farmers thrive so do our schools, if farmers struggle our schools, like farmers, have shrinking financial pools

Farmers have no control over who actively assists them in the fight
My family and I choose to remain in the fight to make these insidious individuals and groups, from Ohio, take permanent flight!

Ralph D. Coffman – The Agricultural View
coffman_ralph@yahoo.com

June 15, 2010
August 1, 2010 (Modified)