Post by violet7 on Feb 16, 2005 10:30:41 GMT -5
One fine Spring day, just before Mother's Day two years ago, little Andy was born. A beautiful, baby calf, weighing only 30 pound. His large doe-like eyes looked to his mother for the first time.
A young girl had gotten her first job working part-time, after-school at a dairy farm near the U.S. Canada border. When Andy's mom began to give birth, it was the first time she'd ever witnessed anything born. She was in tear when the baby came and then, to her horror, the farmer took Andy and threw him behind a barn on top of a "dead pile" of other baby calves who were taken away from their mothers at birth, at let to die. She couldn't believe what she saw.
Young girl quickly called her teacher, the one who helped her get the job.
Her teacher came over to the farm and with the help of the young girl, they snached baby Andy off of the pile of calves and put him in the back seat of her car!
They didn't know what to do with a little calf, still covered in afterbrith, umbilical cord dangling from his pink tummy - so they called Farm Animal Sanctuary(name is changed to protect calf) for help.
What this brave young girl witnessed is what happens EVERY DAY ON NEARLY EVERY DAIRY FARMS ACROSS THE COUNTRY - calves are either thrown away like garbage, because they have no value, or they are enslaved in small crates to be sold for veal slaughter.
You see, calves are the "by-product" of diary industry - to give milk, dairy cows must be kept pregnant.
There no "magical" milking cows or hormones that can be given to make them milk. they are you or me- mammals who must be pregnant to develop milk, to feed their young.
Maybe you don't throw newborn calves in dead pile alive or beat them with lead pipe to death but as long as you keep consuming dairy products, you are responsible for barbarity in dairy farms.
The pain and suffering that goes into a glass of milk or a slices of cheese pizza isn't worth it. Andy was saved - but literally millions of calves and cows suffer and die everyday.
You can start making a difference today by where you spend your consumer dollars.
Please stop supporting horror in dairy farms by consuming dairy products.
A young girl had gotten her first job working part-time, after-school at a dairy farm near the U.S. Canada border. When Andy's mom began to give birth, it was the first time she'd ever witnessed anything born. She was in tear when the baby came and then, to her horror, the farmer took Andy and threw him behind a barn on top of a "dead pile" of other baby calves who were taken away from their mothers at birth, at let to die. She couldn't believe what she saw.
Young girl quickly called her teacher, the one who helped her get the job.
Her teacher came over to the farm and with the help of the young girl, they snached baby Andy off of the pile of calves and put him in the back seat of her car!
They didn't know what to do with a little calf, still covered in afterbrith, umbilical cord dangling from his pink tummy - so they called Farm Animal Sanctuary(name is changed to protect calf) for help.
What this brave young girl witnessed is what happens EVERY DAY ON NEARLY EVERY DAIRY FARMS ACROSS THE COUNTRY - calves are either thrown away like garbage, because they have no value, or they are enslaved in small crates to be sold for veal slaughter.
You see, calves are the "by-product" of diary industry - to give milk, dairy cows must be kept pregnant.
There no "magical" milking cows or hormones that can be given to make them milk. they are you or me- mammals who must be pregnant to develop milk, to feed their young.
Maybe you don't throw newborn calves in dead pile alive or beat them with lead pipe to death but as long as you keep consuming dairy products, you are responsible for barbarity in dairy farms.
The pain and suffering that goes into a glass of milk or a slices of cheese pizza isn't worth it. Andy was saved - but literally millions of calves and cows suffer and die everyday.
You can start making a difference today by where you spend your consumer dollars.
Please stop supporting horror in dairy farms by consuming dairy products.