“The cow has too much milk for the calf, and the calf can die from scours and over feeding. The modern dairy cow have very few maternal instincts and are seriously better off not raising their calves themselves.” Now we know that these cows have been specifically bred to lactate as much as possible. All dairy “shows” and contests will evaluate how much milk, butter-fat, etc. each “prize” cow “yields”. And I assure you that even though it “hurts” her now “giving” 50 or so pounds per day — Her species is still being re-designed, “improved” and manipulated to “give” even more! And still it will never be “enough” for her calves then either.

You say too they don’t have maternal instincts? Gosh, that’s not what I’ve been told from people who have worked on and witnessed the separation of her babies from her… Why would dairies encourage removing the babies at dusk (so she’s not aware and can’t defend her baby?) That modern-day dairy cows don’t have the same instincts to nurture as human mothers do, cat mothers do, dog mothers do, squirrel mothers do, kangaroo mothers do, etc. is just a very, very strange and inaccurate notion!

Animals in nature certainly wait much longer to have babies than what humans with the intent of monetary gain have the patience for. Let’s tell the truth – They are bred like machines.

Finally, your concern about turning out all the “livestock” to meet horrible deaths is unwarranted. If we stopped breeding them this “problem” wouldn’t exist at all and we wouldn’t have to provide them with a “bolt to their brain”. Such an odd twist on what’s compassionate… If we just stop putting the puppy in the burning building we can stop “rescuing” him!

So, so true. And to think, most feminists still don’t see how this is a feminist issue. Sigh.

Those “happy cow” commercials infuriate me. In particular, the one that shows male and female cows flirting with one another, as though they’re allowed to choose their mates, reproduce naturally and form family units – tragicomedy, I tell you.