I recently went through a scholarship interview. In the preparations, I was meditating about my views and goals for my life. I have always had a passion for agriculture. I used to feel as though being a large animal veterinarian was my calling, my only goal was to go to college, get accepted to one of the top schools of veterinarian medicine for the time that I would be attending, and then start my own practice in a rural area where I would live happily ever after.



I have accomplished the going to college part. However, through the classes I have taken here, I have realized there are a lot more issues facing American Agriculture, Animal Agriculture specifically, than I could ever have thought of. When I would ask how to fix the problem, almost everyone would respond, "People do not know and do not want to know."



What does not make sense is why we can acknowledge the problem, but nothing is being done. Now, I know that this is a slight exageration. There are people in different commodity groups doing research and promotional programs to help educate their consumers. Although, I feel that it should not be left up to just the comodity groups. Agriculturalists need to work together, on a whole, to fund, create, and publish things that will help combat the issues we are facing.



We hear more and more about the Humane Society of the United States, and that they have a hidden message to remove all animal agriculture in the United State. They are being funded by our consumers, other groups and organizations, large and small. We need to band together to be able to match their forces, and eventualy over come them.