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To: ManyMoose who wrote (102797)	5/2/2005 12:14:38 AM
From: Grainne	Respond to of 108807

I was watching an English program on BBC America last Saturday morning called something like Under the Hammer. It is a program about auctioning houses and flats. You see the auction, and then later interviewers interview the winning bidders and follow them around to see what their plans are for the properties they buy at auction. It is a really good show--I heartily recommend it. But what really got me is that a dairy farmer in Devon, which is a very beautiful agricultural area, bought a row house in a little town called Chard to renovate and rent out. He was a very nice man--he had done this several times and wanted to be a landlord who really cared about his tenants. He was fixing up the flat to be very pretty. The reason he had left dairy farming and become a landlord is that his entire herd had been culled in the English hoof and mouth disease epidemic a few years ago. He described being in continual grief that would not end, because he watched all his dairy cows being put down, cows he had bred for twenty-five years, all the little families of them. He said he had loved them all, every one with a distinct character. He could have built up another herd, but he couldn't bear to go through that kind of grief again in his lifetime. That is the kind of farming I would like to see, where farmers are connected to their animals and take very good care of them. It is something that is totally lost with factory farming.