By RACHEL ANDREWS DAMON, special to The Conway Daily Sun
FRYEBURG, Maine — Fryeburg Fair, established in 1851, will host its 172nd annual eight-day Fair from Sunday, Oct. 2-Sunday, Oct. 9.
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Seriously, be vegan? pretty painful reading your holier than now rhetoric. Who made you the town cryer? This fair has been a long standing event for all ages. and guess what animals are always gonna be around for consumption and for people who just enjoy animals. Save the sermons for an event where people may actually care what you have to say about one’s choice of how to eat. Children love these fairs as do adults. find another event for your “cause” and/or opinion. People like yourself just feel so entitled.
Billions of people are food insecure, while the planet screams for relief from raising farmed animals and the feed they require. It is insane, yes, backwards and illogical, to continue glorifying a system of agriculture that is violent to other living beings, results in degenerative and zoonotic diseases, while increasing GHG emissions already resulting in a saturated atmosphere with excess Cow and worse, the methane emissions from farmed animal production. If we learn NOTHING else as humans, we should learn that eating plant based nutrition is by far, the biggest healer of our planet, dying from the ravages of eating animals. T FFFA should have learned this long ago, omit animals from their week of gawking and exploitation, and be invested in a healthy, humane, sustainable food system, quite the opposite of what we have today.
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