Happy Cows ~ Behind The Myths
In order to maintain uninterrupted milk production, cows are forced year after year to go through an endless cycle of pregancy and birth, only to have their calves immediately taken from them. Cows and calves cry out for each other as they are separated. All forms of dairy farming involve forcibly impregnating cows. This involves a person inserting his arm far into the cow’s rectum in order to position the uterus, and then forcing an instrument into her vagina. The restraining apparatus used is commonly called a “rape rack.” Half of all calves born are male. Of no use in milk production, they are sent to veal-producing operations or directly to auctions where they are sold and slaughtered when they are just a few days old. Male calves used for veal production suffer a crude castration process and are killed after 4 months spent in small crates or pens. After just 4 to 6 years, dairy cows are “spent” from being forced to continuously produce milk. Often weak and ill, they endure transport to auction and slaughter, both of which are traumatic for these gentle animals. If allowed to exist free of exploitation and slaughter, cows can live 25 years or more. *** When those who have the money to enjoy meat-rich diets cause the market to redirect available supplies of grain away from the tables of people who cannot pay in order to feed livestock to provide meat to those who can, they contribute to the dynamics of hunger. John Cavanagh & Jerry Mander, eds., Alternatives to …
25 Responses to Happy Cows ~ Behind The Myths
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Yeah suuuuure
dandelion45
October 27, 2011 at 3:57 pm
“by the way i had a 16 oz steak today with a nice big glass of milk ”
So what do you want me to do? I use to eat meat myself long ago and I loved my steak very rare and your point is?
“God” also said that man was allowed to beat black slaves so long as they don’t die. “God” also pro-genocide and human slavery. The bible has been poisoned by man and sorry but when god said “thou shalt not kill” that is what he meant, no lamb no blood.
dandelion45
October 27, 2011 at 4:16 pm
Obviously if there are going to have visitors at the farm they will not mistreat the cows in the front of the people LOL!
dandelion45
October 27, 2011 at 4:34 pm
dandelion45 you are full of un-true bullS*** by the way i had a 16 oz steak today with a nice big glass of milk
dairy farming is not cruel its a business as a son of a 5 year running dairy farm i find that you do not have all your facts stright so go piss on yourself for thinking farmers will damage that which makes them money
did not God take a lamb and shed its blood over your dorr so your first born shall be saved
i rest my case you idiot
nottobig
October 27, 2011 at 4:52 pm
Put yourself in the mother cows place then you tell it its not “cruel” to have your baby taken away to be used for veal and you will be milked till you cannot be milked no more as you endless grieve for your child. Are you female or a male?
dandelion45
October 27, 2011 at 5:37 pm
I encourage each and every one of you to visit an actual dairy farm and see how the farmers treat their cows, then make your decision on whether it is true or not. The media lies, experience it for yourselves.
spenser260
October 27, 2011 at 5:50 pm
I am dairy farmer and what you people need to understand is that it’s these cows that make us our money. It is our business. Mistreating these cows results in less profitability. Its ignorant to think that a dairy farmer is going to mistreat and damage the sole item that makes him money. And the milking of the cows is not cruel. We don’t even have to round up the cows most of the time to milk them because they want to be milked and walk to the barn themselves.
spenser260
October 27, 2011 at 5:52 pm
breez: I’ve read some idiotic comments here on youtube, but your’s takes the cake. Horses are being sent to slaughter, few if any are being released and are picked up. If you don’t eat beef or dairy these industries will stop breeding and the animals simply will not exist. A few herds could be kept for prosterity. Please don’t make ridiculous argements.
fishmarc
October 27, 2011 at 6:50 pm
Do you treat your human ” friends ” the same as you do your ” cow ” friends.. I very much doubt that you do !
neesan1
October 27, 2011 at 7:35 pm
these are all made up things this doesn’t happen!!!!! go to a real dairy farm go see this doesn’t happen
dairyingrocks
October 27, 2011 at 8:15 pm
Cows are bred for the purpose of food so that means if less people eat cows we would need less cows. If no one eat cows then cows do not need to be bred to be food items.
dandelion45
October 27, 2011 at 9:11 pm
The slaughter of horses was banned, and now they are about to lift that ban because people just let the horses go free and they are starving and getting killed brutally by other animals in the wild. What do you think would happen if millions of cows were released? They would be “happy”? Have you ever even been near a cow?
breezknollfarm
October 27, 2011 at 10:01 pm
save the children and the animals of the world because they are the innocent and the voiceless!
dandelion45
October 27, 2011 at 10:41 pm
would you want to be nothing more the a property and be used and abused any way they want to for profit?
dandelion45
October 27, 2011 at 11:17 pm
If you want to be an advocate you should really go see how nature works.Animals in the wild give birth every year.Artificial insemination is not a more reliable way. bull is.Artificial gives us a way to make good choices on the sire so that they animal will not be inbred.I have 300 cows.We know every cow by name.Their our friends.If people like you bought the milk the cows produced, the 1.5 millon cows that are about to lose their jobs because the farmers are broke and cant afford food for them.
breezknollfarm
October 27, 2011 at 11:57 pm
And you believe in God? What kind of God do you believe i n because its not the God of mercy, kindness compassion and love by the looks of your comment.
dandelion45
October 28, 2011 at 12:06 am
At 2:41 the video shows a new born calf…and you call it abuse.
You are presenting lies!
Save the baby humans!
sedg1
October 28, 2011 at 12:16 am
I believe dairy is more suffering then a piece of steak for it involves both child and mother. I am glad you gave up the dairy which for some the cheese can be the hardest (me a cheese lover) but now you can find better quality vegan cheese products. Beware though some soy cheese do have casein. I get “vegan gourmet” brand and they have different varieties of cheese flavor and its excellent as far as melting like on pizza or grizzled cheese : )
(that’s alot of cheese heheh)
dandelion45
October 28, 2011 at 1:00 am
We need 40 million tons of food to feed the worst of world hunger.
So instead of eating meat, eat plants. Because livestock for the richest nations eat 760 million tons of food a year. Once you stop eating meat, that food feeds the hungry, AND gives us a surplus of 720 million tons of food.
So who is living luxury? Because only the rich can afford to clear-cut jungle, grow sixteen pounds of grain to feed a cow for one pound of meat, and ship livestock all over the world for their gluttony.
SailorVegan
October 28, 2011 at 1:51 am
“There is enough in the world for everyones need, but not enough for everyones greed”
AmadeoAlira
October 28, 2011 at 2:04 am
Thank you for this and your other wonderful & artistically done videos. I recently started eating cheese after being totally vegan. Watching your video has ended my short journey into “cheese land”. I don’t know what I was thinking. We can all do better. I can do better. Why should these creatures suffer just so I can put products from their mammary glands on a cracker. I was happy with soy butter, so I’m changing my evil ways. Thanks for waking me up and opening my eyes once again.
Digital00Inspiration
October 28, 2011 at 3:03 am
When those who have the money to enjoy meat-rich diets cause the market to redirect available supplies of grain away
from the tables of people who cannot pay in order to feed livestock to provide meat to those who can,
they contribute to the dynamics of hunger.
John Cavanagh & Jerry Mander, eds., Alternatives to Economic Globalization
dandelion45
October 28, 2011 at 3:54 am
Actually meat eaters takes the valuable grains that can feed world hunger but instead used on the 10 billion farm animals only to be slaughtered to feed your gluttony belly. I will leave the link on the video information about eco-eating.
dandelion45
October 28, 2011 at 4:44 am
“A privileged life”?? Where do you get the idea that vegan people lives a “privileged life”? We are all walks of life not “privileged”. We are “privileged” to be helping those who suffer and die in silence. We are “privileged” to have compassion in our heart. We are “privileged” to know that an animals and humans are saved by going vegan. Veganism is not a expensive living and if you learned more about it you would understand.
We are no glizty hypocrite peta if that is what you think!
dandelion45
October 28, 2011 at 5:05 am
Wow. You’ve lived a privileged life, haven’t you? You have enough leisure time that this is what you choose to worry about? I will guarantee you that most of the folks living hand-to-mouth in third world countries would stare at you blankly if you mentioned animal rights to them. The concept doesn’t exist to them. Your ’cause’ is a luxury good, a by-product of living in a wealthy, comfortable society. Try starving for a living. See what you think then.
justgonnastay
October 28, 2011 at 5:48 am