Cow prisons

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Why should we care about cows living on prison farms?  Surely, cows are the living example of how we’ve made a machine out of Mother Nature.  We’ve harnessed Nature to supply our needs and insured our future survival by having so many animals ‘on tap’.  Consequently we can guarantee our major animal-based food supplies.  And we've been able to bring this about simply by using our brains and losing our outmoded ethical standards.

Again, it’s illustrated best by the way we handle the dairy cow.  With our useful knowledge of the biology of this animal, we have taken control of her, body and soul.  Keeping a cow as a milk-producing machine involves forcibly impregnating her, letting her carry a calf to term, letting that biological process take its course, to stimulate her mammary glands to produce maximum milk.  And by disposing of the newly birthed calf, in order to draw off milk for ourselves, we arrive at a perfect example of slavery.

Certainly in Nature, ants enslave aphids and terrible predatory things happen between creatures, but everything, predator or predated, is always allowed its sense of being part of the natural world.  But that's not the case with cows, nor any other farmed animal.  They are enslaved, shut up in cages or enclosed by barbed wire and concrete, and live in constant contact with cold hard steel.  They’re attended by cold hearted humans who, when they deem fit, will have their animal sent off to be executed.

Something in our instinct should tell us this is profoundly wrong.  But for most of us, our instincts, in this regard, have been cauterised.  We've been so brainwashed that we can no longer see any wrong in it.