“It’s awful expensive.” And I said, “Well, you know, it’s expensive, but it’s part of their diet. It’s what they eat. And so I had to do a demonstration of how they crack the shells in the back of their teeth, suck it out like a sunflower seed and how the whole process with the whiskers and how they find the clams and why it’s important. And they looked at me like, “I’m not sure if I wanted all this information.” But it certainly helped them understand what the need was. And then the next question would be, “Well, why do they have to 300, 200 pounds a day?” I go, “Because they’re a 4,000 pound animal.” And the gentleman I was talking to said, “Well, I have a small amount for breakfast and a salad for lunch. And then, at dinner, we have a moderate meal.” And I go, “Well, what happens if you start cutting one of those out?” And he says, “Well, that wouldn’t be healthy for me.” And I go, “Bingo, it’s not healthy if we cut out the food that’s necessary for a good body weight and a robust body and a healthy animal.” So I think that taught me a little bit about the politics involved in dealing with non-animal people. They needed to know too. They needed to ask why, but some of them didn’t.
