1243:
Vegetarians and vegans
deplore the eating of meat. Abattoirs are a scar on the landscape. The daily
holocaust of animal slaughtering hurts us immeasurably. And look what other
damage humans have done, what crimes we’ve committed collectively, as a
species? There may be plenty obvious today, and plenty of others recorded in
history, but perhaps the least recorded is the story of the enslavement of one
of our biggest animals. The most frightening story of the dairy cow.
Humans read Sci-Fi stories,
where machines take us over. No more freedom, all controlled, all predictable
and depressing. But down at the dairy, that’s the cows’ nightmare, her very
life dependent on humans and their machinery. Her ultimate loss of dignity, as a
slave of the human, is that they value her milk-producing abilities, and for
this she endures the loss of her calf for the sake of her milk production. At
the hands of humans, she loses everything. At the insistence of the machine,
she gives everything.
Cows know that after humans
have finished fiddling inside their bodies, pregnancy happens. The cow ends up
fertilised and much later on she becomes dependent on a machine, for without a
good sucking-out, once or twice a day, the result would be death. Humans have
effectively interfered with her body, by genetically enlarging the udder over
many generations, so that she now carries a heavy bag of milk, and then needs
to be attached to a machine, to have the liquid sucked out of her.
Her body doesn’t belong to
her. It has been invaded by the ‘secretion-increasers’. Humans have devised a
milk-making machine with a cow inside it.
And a happy new year to you
all, but be assured that the cow's forthcoming year will have nothing new or happy
about it.
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