When Cows No Longer Produce

[Guest guest]

Greetings:

 

Ever wonder what happens to cows when they can't produce milk

anymore? Still trying to convince friends and family to eliminate

meat products? Print this article and leave it lying around for them

to read it.

 

Article taken from the NOTMILK MAN:

 

Once a cow's milking days come to an end, what becomes of her? Is she

sent to pasture, or adopted as somebody's pet? This is the real life

and death story of everycow's last few days.

 

Over three million dairy cows are sent to U.S. slaughterhouses each

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

onto a crowded truck, packed in tightly with other cows. 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. They die of

fear. Some feeeze to death. 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 while they are

hoisted uside down by chains. Those who regain consiciousness to feel

pain react by kicking wildly, and are rewarded by having their

thrashing legs removedd by men with chainsaws. The adrenaline

permeates their flesh.

 

A used up dairy cow is culled from her herd and sent to the

slaughterhouse when she is no longer profitable to the dairy farmer.

Often times, disease has ravished her stressed body. Tumors grow.

Leukemia or tuberculosis or bovine AIDS overwhelms her immune system.

 

Three times per day milking dissolves 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.

 

Cows no longer able to be milked are broken down specimens of what

they once were. Diseased and injured cows are discarded and their

universal statement is muffled:

 

Our flesh is tainted. We lived our lives to serve you and your

children so that our diseased flesh and battered bodies can now be

recycled into your own bodies.

 

Robert Cohen

http://www.slaughterhousecam.com

[Guest guest]

Thanks for the information Elaine. The other day I was listening to the

radio and Russell Simmons was on talking about vegetarianism and what

you " take on " when you eat animals. I know he is vegetarian and I

thought, " Yep, the world is changing! "