Happy Cows, Behind The Myth......

[sirchai]

After the thread yesterday an awaking and shocking article about the males. Well,, cows don't have an easy life.

Half of all calves born are male. Of no use in milk production, they are sent to veal-producing operations or directly to auctions where they are sold and slaughtered when they are just a few days old.

All forms of dairy farming involve forcibly impregnating cows. This involves a person inserting his arm far into the cow’s rectum in order to position the uterus, and then forcing an instrument into her vagina. The restraining apparatus used is commonly called a “rape rack.”

http://www.humanemyth.org/happycows.htm

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[sirchai]

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

[daboyz1]

I worked on a dairy farm for a few years in Florida when I was a teenager. All of what you say is true. If a calf is born a male, it's off to the slaughterhouse. No use for male cattle on a dairy farm. I was also involved with the breeding process and have had my arm up many a cow ass. It was interesting how they figured out when a cow was ready for breeding. They had two methods.

1. They would put these adhesive blister packs on their rumps. When enough pressure was applied, it would break the pack and it would turn red. Even though it was all female cows, the females would still jump on top of the female that was in heat and mount them. When they came in with a red blister pack, it was time to get them knocked up again.

2. They had an old man driving around in a truck seeing which cows where being mounted. He would take down their number and when they came in for milking, you would inseminate them then.

The goal is to keep them pregnant as much as possible during their lifespan.

Also, they had catalogs of semen you could buy from companies. One of them was called Select Sires. Depending on the blood line of the Sire and how much milk it's offspring produced, would set the price for one dose of semen. I remember it could be as little as a few dollars, all the way up to 100s of dollars. This was back in the 80s, so I'm sure the price has gone up since then.

[barrybankruad]

I used to keep beef cattle. When I thought a cow was in season I'd call the Ban Kruad Animal Husbandry Officer and ask him to come and inseminate the beast. He would arrive with samples of frozen semen, would select the sample he thought suitable (you wouldn't want to inseminate a small beast with sperm that would produce a calf bigger than the cow could handle). On with the long rubber glove, hand up the anus to feel the uterus to determine whether the cow really was in season (sometimes it's difficult to tell), and then out with the insertion instrument with the 'straw' of semen in it, quick insertion, pull the trigger and its all over.

No 'rape rack' required, just hold the beasts head by the rope through the nose, worked every time. Of course I really didn't care what sex the calf was being beef cattle.

[A1Str8]

Regardless of the myth cows have always been happy until I came around and started using them as my primary protein source.

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