Some human decisions can be so cold.

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The cow bonanza is just one of many farm-animal bonanzas from which animal owners benefit. They profit not just from the sale of the animal’s carcass, but from various by-products (like milk and eggs) taken while alive, or from ‘co-products’ like leather/skin, often the most profitable part of the animal. To do what we do to farm animals requires a cold heart especially when the animal is very young or very good-looking. Then, particularly, the farmer not only needs to emotionally separate from them but also needs to become hardened from seeing them as beautiful. Imagine how rabbits look, especially white rabbits with big eyes, bushy tails and gentle faces. It needs a truly hard heart to exploit this animal, but the worst of it is, today rabbits are held in cages, like hens, and live confined, standing on wire mesh floors only to be killed for their fur to make akubra hats. The rabbit is just one of many abused farm animals. But unlike others, they are also companion animals. They are especially popular amongst vegetarians as they too are herbivores. All the more difficult to see them caged and destined for an ugly execution.