Ram Ramakrishnan
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Yep. Ag apathy, or ignorance…

2. Hopefully the lesser-light attacks on Palin won't be stoked, again. Says more about the attackers…

3. Plenty of us who aren't far lefties go easy on meat (my statement about its being a “premium food” speaks for itself) and don't scoff at or disrespect veganism. (My friend in DC doesn't eat meat at all, and when I'm with her, I eat no meat, either. No deprivation, no oddity, no game-playing, just no meat eaten.)

4. CAFOs are somewhat of a handy anti-agribusiness and anti-size far-lefty temper-tantrum object, but the problems with these things (McFarms? Ha) are no surprise. These even made the news here in Detroit metro recently, to once more name an example:

http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/articl…

http://www.mlive.com/news/index.ssf/2008/05/caf…

etc.

5. Related to this — what about the current “foodist” fad with “rediscovering” small gardens, in urban areas as well as elsewhere, putting PC fluff on what was long known by most of us simply for the value and the satisfaction gardening and harvesting brings to live. All that we need to see now is adoption of gardening by you know who, and related to that, a new book,

** Sarah Palin's Victory Gardening **

However, there IS a cultural gap between people who see management of game / natural resources as part of the lifestyle and those who blithely rely on (and eat) packaged meat. I suspect, if you asked her, that Palin would disdain and despise the CAFO's. Certainly the people I know who hunt for food and/or animal control (NOT mutually exclusive) detest them.

I don't think, though, that this culture gap is between liberals and conservatives so much as it is between urban and rural.

OMG! Soylent Green is people!

Sarah’s confident that those few liberals who still eat meat eat it rare, medium rare, or (for the snootiest among them)

Italics are Sarah’s. You have to love the gratuitous swipe at that most liberal of all liberals, the vegan.

What Sarah is espousing is a proud Conservative version of the liberal foodie

In the excerpts posted I don't see this. No mention of liberals at all. Do you think there are no Conservative Vegans? is being a liberal required for anyone choosing a Vegan diet? Are all alaskans who like to hunt and eat meat Conservatives? Unless there is something actually there that doesn't appear in your quoted areas, I have to wonder at your observations, they don' seem to have much factual basis in the snippets posted here. Are there other remarks? if so please share and maybe your point will appear valid rather than based on an assumption. So far I see a woman talking about food, and the Alsaskan lifestyle, not conservatism vs liberalism.

Seems to me, unless there is something you didn't include here in the quoted sections, that makes your point, your operating on pure assumptions.

dr.e