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Greetings members:

 

Here is an amazing article found at:

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/1208-02.htm

 

 

Additionally, this was in the news letter from NotMilk.com dated

12/15/03. Very interesting articles found on the link below.

 

The California dairy industry has financed a media

campaign portraying " Happy Cows " producing merry milk,

blithe butter, and cheerful cheese. If only slaughterhouses

had glass walls. Dairymen do not want consumers to witness

how each and every " Happy Cow " ends her life. Three million

not-so-happy cows will have their throats slashed this

year so that Americans can eat fast-food burgers.

 

This month (December, 2003), California's " Happy Cow " ad

campaign goes national. Commercials will be aired by cable

TV networks so that most Americans will be fed multiple

doses of " Happy Cow " manure, and be subliminally motivated

to seek out and purchase California dairy products.

 

Animal rights activists would like to document just how

unhappy California cows really are, but a new state law

has been enacted just in time for the media campaign.

Trespassing on California farms and dairy processors

will soon be punishable by up to six months in jail and/or

a $1,000 fine. The new law takes affect on January 1, 2004.

The current penalty calls for a citation and a $10 fine.

 

Truth will be sacrificed under the guise of a deceitful

veil called homeland security. What future scenes will

courageous activists (facing jail time) be recording?

 

Imagine for a moment each creature's experience. She is

loaded onto a crowded truck, packed in tightly with her

sisters. She is then driven many miles in the middle of

the night to her death. Some animals do not make it that

far. They cry. They scream. Those unlucky enough to survive

the trip are roughly unloaded from the truck and are

prodded with electrical devices of torture to go up a ramp

to their final fate. Stun gun, sharp knife to the throat,

meat hook; some remain conscious as the blood still drains

from the wounds in their necks. Those who feel pain react

by kicking wildly and are rewarded by having their thrashing

legs removed by chainsaw. The adrenaline permeates their flesh.

 

A non-producing cow is culled from her herd and sent to the

slaughterhouse when she is no longer profitable to the dairy

farmer. Often times, disease ravishes her stressed body.

Tumors grow. Leukemia or tuberculosis or bovine AIDS

overwhelms her compromised immune system.

 

Three times per day milking dissolves their bones from

within. Nearly one hundred percent of cows end their lives

this way. They are given no respect as living, feeling

creatures. Ear tags merely identify cows as numbered

agricultural units.

 

Each living animal is skinned, gutted, and beheaded. The

sum total of her life is now referred to as meat. She is

cut up into halves, then quartered, then portioned.

 

Warning: Enter at your own risk.

Here is the reality of each happy cow's fate:

 

http://www.slaughterhousecam.com

 

You will soon be watching " Happy Cow " commercials.

Do what you think is appropriate. Shut off the TV.

Call the network. Completely give up dairy products.

Gather 100 of your friends with cameras and visit

a happy farm. When you are arrested, tell the authorities

that you wanted to take pictures of happy cows. Six months

of free room and board, paid for by a financially and

intellectually bankrupt state will be your reward for

attempting to record this truth: The only happy cows

in California are the ones whose udders Arnold fondled

during his recent gubernatorial campaign.

 

Good Health to You

Elaine