My kind of place
Jun 17, 2009 4:41 PM, By Jeff Ryan
Oh boy. At first blush, I was thinking I probably shouldn't lead off with pigs. I decided to go the agronomy route instead. List the crops. No one doesn't like corn, soybeans, alfalfa and oats! Makes me sound very Whole Foods.
The second staffer had my Atkins tendencies pegged. “How about animals?” he inquired.
"Yeah, beef cattle and, uh, hogs," I said somewhat sheepishly, afraid of what it may incite.
The second guy started to laugh. He pointed at Blondie and said, "She'll love that!"
I had a hunch where this was going. Blondie looked incredibly pale. It probably didn't come from all the overcast skies in southern California. Chances are it came from a strict avoidance policy on her part.
"I'm a vegetarian," she said quite emphatically. "Do you kill all your animals and eat them?"
"No, I don't." The key emphasis in that sentence was on the word “I” and not the word “don't.”
"Somebody else does it for you, don't they?" the other Guy No. 2 asked. "But you still eat them."
Well, yeah, but only because they're delicious.
That got the two guys roaring with laughter. They started teasing Blondie right away about her dietary choices and how meat comes from tasty animals raised by regular people, not quite like the way she had apparently been telling them. They especially liked my fortuitous appearance that day. It sounded like Blondie had been nagging them about the whole vegetarian thing recently.
"Look at him. He's healthy. And he's a pretty big guy, too. See what a little meat can do?"
As an olive branch before I walked out the door, I asked Blondie to hand me my card. I turned it over, wrote down the Web address to my Farm Industry News column, explained what it was and told her to check it out.
If she gets in touch, I will be amazed. If she asks how to get her hands on some Two Guys Farming beef, I may need to speak to the people in Cardiac Rhythm Disease Management at Medtronic.
Right after I get in touch with Ripley's Believe It or Not.
Guy No. 2
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