Animal Rights- From hate to hope to heal

Many of us in the meat and poultry industry and our antagonists, the animal rights community, spew forth hateful rhetoric at each other similar to what we witnessed during the recent election campaign.  It sickens me.  And, what has it gotten either of us?  The words that emanate from both sides like “cowards” and “murderers” and the like have no basis in fact or logic.  They are the mind’s interpretations of words and actions and they are often not even close to the truth.In past blogs, I have called for direct discussions between the meat industry whose goal is to grow consumption of meat and poultry, and the animal rights folks whose stated purpose is for humane animal treatment as well as to reduce (and for some to eliminate entirely) consumption of meat and poultry.Do you think that the two sides can ever agree on anything with such diametrically opposed positions?  Would there be any worthwhile purpose to such an agreement?  I think so.