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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Oral Roberts who wrote (93361)	1/12/2005 2:33:14 PM
From: Grainne	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 108807

"At the moment our human world is based on the suffering and destruction of millions of non-humans. To perceive this and to do something to change it in personal and public ways is to undergo a change of perception akin to a religious conversion. Nothing can ever be seen in quite the same way again because once you have admitted the terror and pain of other species you will, unless you resist conversion, be always aware of the endless permutations of suffering that support our society." - Arthur Conan Doyle Yes, of course I think dairy cows are raped, because that is actually what happens to them (if we could all free our minds from what we have gotten used to and take for granted, then everyone could see my point). In nature cows and bulls have been mating since the beginning of time, and the species has survived, so obviously the bulls are not crushing all the cows. When a dairy cow is artificially inseminated she has not choice in the matter. She is not attracted to the dairyman's hand that plunges violently all the way up her vagina and birth canal; she is attracted to bulls. She did not in any way consent to this violation. The dairyman has no interest in pleasuring her, only wanting to make a profit from her calf. She derives nothing from her pregnancy and birth except pain and sorrow; her calf is taken away from her almost immediately. Her love for her calf and her maternal instinct are destroyed, and she is in agony. In fact, she is simply a milking machine. I do not understand how any rational, logical human being with full knowledge of a dairy cow's pathetic life could believe anything except that she was raped, in fact. Here part of an article that I have cited at the end of the post: Cows produce milk for the same reason that humans and other mammals do, to nourish their young. But the millions of cows who live on U.S. dairy farms are forced into a vicious cycle of continuous pregnancy so that they will produce milk for human consumption. Their female calves are slaughtered immediately or used to replace their mothers in the dairy herd, and many male calves suffer a fate that is completely different but no less cruel—one of confinement, darkness, malnutrition, and slaughter. The Cow-Calf Bond Without human intervention, calves suckle from their mothers for nearly a year.(1) One veterinary study revealed that “during natural weaning there is never complete and abrupt abandonment of the calf by the cow. In fact, the … cow and calf will maintain a lifelong relationship of social contact and companionship ….”(2) Another study found that a cow and her calf can develop a “strong maternal bond” in as little as five minutes.(3) But calves born on dairy farms are taken from their mothers the day they are born and fed milk replacers, including cattle blood, so that humans can have the milk instead.(4, 5) This forced separation causes cows and calves great stress, and cows have been known to escape enclosures and travel for miles to reunite with their young. You can read more if you are interested: animalsuffering.com peta.org