* Cows (& goats ) … It can be fairly stated that no farmed animal knows greater suffering than the female dairy cow . Immediately after her birth , the female dairy calf is forcibly removed from her mother ’ s side ( most often never to see her again ), placed in a tiny enclosure , and over-fed hormone-laced formula to stimulate her accelerated growth . After she has been de-horned without anesthesia , and as soon as she is deemed fit enough to produce offspring ( often as soon as the tender age of 15months ), she is tied to a cage known as a “ rape rack ” and forcibly impregnated by a dairy farm employee ( via a most intrusive and certainly most-uncomfortable process that involves simultaneous anal & vaginal violations ). Roughly nine months later she gives birth and her baby is stolen from her ( despite her baby ’ s cries of fear and despite her own plaintive wails of sorrow ) to later join the milk-production “ machine ”. The new mother then has her baby ’ s milk squeezed out of her for the next ten months – often at ten times the amount she would normally produce for her calf . Once she starts to “ dry up ”, she is impregnated again , has her next baby stolen from her again , and is over-milked for 10 months – again . This cruel cycle generally repeats itself for a total of 3-5 times , until it becomes obvious that her udders cannot continue to produce milk at a profitable rate , whereupon she is sent to her own violent & brutal slaughterhouse death .
And in case you were wondering , male calves fare no better , as they are also stolen from their mothers immediately after birth , and are either killed immediately – often with a hammer blow to the head ( male dairy cows tend to have a meat-to-bone ratio that is too low to be profitable later as beef cows ), or are thrown into tiny enclosures called “ veal crates ”. Here they are over-fed hormone-laced formulas for roughly 8 months to stimulate their own rapid growth , whereupon they become “ veal ” – sent to the slaughterhouse to meet the same brutally violent & equally terrifying end as their mother will inevitably know . Please know as well that not a single farmed cow escapes this suffering ; that all “ grass fed ”, all “ organic ” and all “ humanely raised ” cows all meet the same horrible end – they all die terribly , and they all do so at a very young age .
Objective conclusion : over 99 % of all farmed cows suffer immensely during the entirety of their traumatic , short lives – with the remaining 1 % having slightly better lives , but still dying brutally in their adolescence as well .
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