"Pete C." > wrote in message
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> 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.

Dairy cows can live to be 15 or so, but are usually taken off the line and
sent to slaughter at age 4.