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Some folks want to ban fishing. Why?  Because fishing is cruel.  They want to ban fishing because they do not like it. Here is some background and other info about the groups that want to outlaw your right to fish.

I got a kick out of the cartoon "Arlo and Janis" in the Griffin Daily News, a nationally syndicated cartoon.. A couple of days had the same theme. Janis was out in her herb garden working with her plants when husband Arlo shows up. One day he wants some of her oregano for his spaghetti sauce.

Janis gets this horrified look when she realizes he wants to kill some of her herbs. Arlo says something like "These are just cooking spices you’re growing," but this obviously does not appease Janis. She does not want her little plants she has raised to be used for the reason they were raised.

Another day Arlo wants some rosemary for grilled pork chops. It shows him happily cooking and then the two of them sitting at the table. Janis has this sick look on her face and Arlo is saying "You haven’t touched your pork chop."

That is cute, but way too close to the truth. I grew up on a farm and we would have gone hungry if we had not eaten the animals we raised, much less the plants. That has been the case throughout history until recently. There was a direct connection between the food you ate and raising it. Most people raised at least some of their own food.

Now meat comes in nice plastic and Styrofoam wrappers at the grocery store and there is no connection to a living or dead animal. Plants magically appear in the produce section and no one even thinks about the efforts to grow them.

This is not really a problem ........ 

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