To the editor: I learn with curiosity the article in Sunday’s Occasions about utilizing child goats for scrumptious, tender tacos (“Roasted baby goat tacos hide in a rural street food row near San Bernardino,” Feb. 25). As soon as the waves of nausea handed, I used to be in a position to visualize tearing a 45-day-old, unweaned child goat from its terrified mom after which turning it over to slaughter as a result of it made a tasty, tender taco. I perceive the necessity to slaughter animals for meals, however shouldn’t there be some humanity, some degree of decency in how it’s carried out? The article was sterile with no thought to the barbarity of the act. There are ranges of humanity that sink under the necessity to put together meals.
Donald Gerecht, Los Angeles
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To the editor: Thanks for the good article! Although I’d shake my head at some issues, one other a part of me likes that some “previous nation” methods are nonetheless practiced right here within the States. Uncooked milk, straight from the goat or cow? Perhaps it’s not an amazing concept (I recognize Louis Pasteur) but fascinated with my mother makes me surprise. She was born and raised on a farm in Nebraska to Swedish immigrant mother and father. I keep in mind her saying she all the time drank milk “heat from the cow” and that the primary time she ever drank chilly, store-bought milk she made a bitter face. In fact, this was now a bit greater than a century in the past.
Bob Wieting, Simi Valley
