dull knife wrote:
>
> In article >, Miche
> > wrote:
>
> > In article <f%kuj.6506$wG2.2695@trndny09>,
> > "deja.blues" > wrote:
> >
> > > to dear old Bossy when she can't give milk anymore. She gets turned into
> > > hamburger and lunchmeat.
> > > :-(
> >
> > How is that any different from the way things were before factory
> > farming? Do you think the house cow got to live out her days in happy
> > retirement? Nope, she became dinner.
>
> Miche, don't get upset, now, but I'm going to ratchet this up a
> notch... not to pick on you because that could be a painful process for
> both of us, but to take up the point...
>
> It's not being turned into dinner that's the problem. It's the way in
> which the turning-into takes place. I think it's quite different for a
> farmer to turn "Old Bessie" into food versus having the same done at a
> corporate feedlot/slaughterhouse. The latter is rarely an experience
> that anyone wants to witness or that any animal experiences without
> extreme trauma.
>
> Modern industrial meat production is extremely cruel. The animals are
> fed daily with "stuff" that acidifies their digestive system so badly
> that many are ulcerated, have perforated organs, and live in agony all
> of their lives.

Given that they are only around 12-13 months before they become burgers,
it's not exactly years of suffering.