"deja.blues" wrote:
>
> "Pete C." > wrote in message
> ...
> > dull knife wrote:
> >>
> >> In article >, Miche
> >> > wrote:
> >>
> >> > In article <f%kuj.6506$wG2.2695@trndny09>,
> >> > "deja.blues" > wrote:
> >> >
> >> > > to dear old Bossy when she can't give milk anymore. She gets turned
> >> > > into
> >> > > hamburger and lunchmeat.
> >> > > :-(
> >> >
> >> > How is that any different from the way things were before factory
> >> > farming? Do you think the house cow got to live out her days in happy
> >> > retirement? Nope, she became dinner.
> >>
> >> Miche, don't get upset, now, but I'm going to ratchet this up a
> >> notch... not to pick on you because that could be a painful process for
> >> both of us, but to take up the point...
> >>
> >> It's not being turned into dinner that's the problem. It's the way in
> >> which the turning-into takes place. I think it's quite different for a
> >> farmer to turn "Old Bessie" into food versus having the same done at a
> >> corporate feedlot/slaughterhouse. The latter is rarely an experience
> >> that anyone wants to witness or that any animal experiences without
> >> extreme trauma.
> >>
> >> Modern industrial meat production is extremely cruel. The animals are
> >> fed daily with "stuff" that acidifies their digestive system so badly
> >> that many are ulcerated, have perforated organs, and live in agony all
> >> of their lives.
> >
> > Given that they are only around 12-13 months before they become burgers,
> > it's not exactly years of suffering.
>
> Dairy cows can live to be 15 or so, but are usually taken off the line and
> sent to slaughter at age 4.

Yes, but the reference to the bad feed and whatnot relates to the meat
only animals that make it to their first birthday at best. Dairy cows
get very different feed and living conditions.