On Feb 18, 2:07*pm, 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. *I'll bet if they could say so, they'd say they're glad
> to die but please don't make me suffer it. *
>
> Shame on humanity because humanity is conspicuously absent in this
> regard. *The Germans and Japanese of WW-II have nothing on us when it
> comes to prisoner and death camps. *Is it any different if it's people
> or animals in them? because it's the business of suffering either way.

I cannot drink milk after reading a report that basically said that
there is pus in milk. It's for baby cows, anyway...