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I can't begin to convey the ammount of offense that I take to the cpmment that this is a sign of a not too bright group. My family and I used to have hog slaughters at my grandfathers farm in Alabama. My grandfather worked for NASA at Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, my father has a PHD from Vanderbilt, and I have 2 degrees one from UT and one from Johnson and Wales. We always had a party to celebrate the slaughter and add a huge ammount of people to help us with the slaughtering. It is a party because we are a rural group by tradition and by gathering the strength of the community around us we could acheive a greater ammount of work with much less effort. Pooling our resources to ease the labor and draw the community together seems very smart to me, but I wouldn't expect someone with such a narrow view as the previous comment to understand that. We in the south are a community that take care of each other and much of our social interaction revolves around food and the preparation of big meals. Learn about the people that you are smearing before you generalize so ignorantly joejoe