Cows: Veal, Beef and Dairy
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Cows raised for dairy, veal, or beef all endure unimaginable cruelty and torture on a daily basis.

Dairy cows in factory farms do not “need” to be milked like we are doing them some favor.  Dairy cows are continually impregnated artificially, by a machine (a “rape”, so to speak) so that they produce milk; this is the only reason that they “need” to be milked.  Once the babies are born, the babies are ripped from their mothers at one or two days old,  the mother is screaming in pain… the baby is screaming in terror…. the male baby is then thrown into a cold dark crate where he is cruelly confined and fed a diet making him anemic, so he can be killed when barely weeks old and turned into veal; females, like their mothers, will become dairy cows.  The mother is then immediately re-impregnated, so that she will continue to produce milk, to suffer the horror of her calf being ripped from her yet again… and again.. and again… until her body is so spent that she can no longer produce any product… and then she is slaughtered.

It is important to realize here what is really going on:  we are STEALING the babies of these mommy cows, and then STEALING the milk that was meant for the babies.  It is truly horrific.

If you drink milk, eat butter, cheese, ice cream, yogurt, you might as well eat veal or beef, because the beef , veal, and dairy industries are so intertwined, you cannot separate one from the other. Dairy and beef cows are painfully branded, tails are docked without anesthesia; “downers”, those who can no longer walk because they are so weak and sick from enduring such dreadful conditions, are dragged to slaughter by pulleys and chains. They are treated like inanimate “units of production”, with no regard for their capacity to suffer, have emotion, and feel pain.

Most cows raised for dairy and beef never get to experience the sun on their backs, the grass under their feet, their own natural social relationships … things so natural and instinctual to them that it must be torture to be deprived of it.  Beef and dairy cows live in conditions so cramped that they cannot even turn around.

Cows raised for dairy and beef live in filth and feces, forced to endure such horrid, disgusting, and even deadly conditions, that the only way to keep them alive and disease-free is to pump them with inordinate amounts of antibiotics on a daily basis.  They are also injected with growth hormones and steroids designed to make them grow faster, produce more milk in less time, or more flesh in less time, which, of course, benefits profits.  All of these drugs, hormones, steroids, and chemicals are not only poison to the cows, but poison to those who consume the products of the cow.

The beef and dairy industries are so hideous, so incredibly cruel, that once knowing the truth, one can barely look at the product without feeling the suffering that went into that neat little package in the refrigerator aisle at the supermarket.

What’s wrong with beef, veal, and dairy?  Everything!

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