Dairy Farms Cruelty

I love my diary products as much as the next person, but I recently came across an article, Cruelty Behind Cheese: Cattle Burned for Maker of Cabot, revealing the dirty little secrets behind my delicious dairy foods. Not all diary farms commit acts of cruelty on their animals, but PETA investigators reported a dairy farm in Clinton County, New York, that is guilty of so much injustice it's hard to know where to start. The beginning will suffice for now. Cows carry their calves for nine full months before delivering. This is the same length as a human mother would carry her child. After nine long months of one of the closest bonds ever being formed, the calfs are taken away from their mothers, never to see them again. This causes severe emotional trauma for both the calf and mother. Later, when the calves are sill young, their horns are burned off without any form of pain killers. Others who have already grown their horns suffer having them chopped off, again with no medication. These are just some of the cruelty these animals go through. The workers at this farm were witnessed jabbing the animals in tender areas, including their utters, and the manager was spotted electrically shocking one cow in the face repeatedly and being verbally abusive as well. This happens daily to these innocent animals and can be stopped. All it would take is reporting their wrongdoings and going to the PETA website to sign a petition to help stop this issue. 

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