A Meat and Dairy Article from All-Creatures.org

Dairy - A Dark Story

From Zahava Katz-Perlish, i'm an animal too
August 2024

Cows are bright and sensitive animals, who have a wide range of emotions. They can feel pain, both psychological and physical, much like your dog and cat. However, the dairy industry harbors deep-seated cruelty towards the animals, and treats them as mere production units, without any respect or concern for their suffering, all in the name of profit.

A young emaciated female calf at a small family-run dairy farm in Vermont, Photo Curtsey: Victoria de Martigny / We Animals Media

Charlotte, a pregnant cow, who could hardly walk, was rescued from a dairy farm by Uncle Neil’s Home sanctuary, which offered her a loving home. She gave birth to Valentino, after overcoming a severe foot infection—a common affliction among dairy cows. Despite the fact that all of Charlotte’s previous babies were taken from her, a standard and cruel practice, she was a wonderful mother to Valentino. Her story highlights the harsh realities of animals in dairy farms. The dairy industry is colossal, and is often unscrutinized, despite its massive adverse effects on the environment, human health, and exploitation and abuse of animals.

From a young age society tells us that dairy is natural and healthy, and that cows are milked so they won’t be in pain. Yet those falsehoods mask the industry’s true nature. All dairy farms, regardless of their labels—‘small’, ‘local’, ‘organic’, ‘free-range’ or ‘grass-fed’—subject cows to inhumane practices to produce a steady stream of milk, and provide the meat sector with calf and cow flesh.

Cows are bright and sensitive animals, who have a wide range of emotions. They can feel pain, both psychological and physical, much like your dog and cat. However, the dairy industry harbors deep-seated cruelty towards the animals, and treats them as mere production units, without any respect or concern for their suffering, all in the name of profit.

In all dairy operations, cows undergo forced impregnation, in a process considered rape if imposed on humans. It’s the only way cows get pregnant, when a cow is about one year old, and then annually, in order to induce and maintain lactation. The cow is strapped to a ‘rape rack’, then a person inserts their arm into the cow’s rectum to position the uterus, and forces the insemination gun with semen into her vagina, and injects it into her uterus. Bulls suffer a similar violation during semen collection. They’re coaxed to ejaculate into an artificial vagina, or forced via electroejaculation—shoving a probe into a bull’s rectum and shocking his pelvic nerves.

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Posted on All-Creatures.org: August 27, 2024
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