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Cows
Got
Milk? You've Got Problems
Karen Dawn, Los Angeles Times, commentary — August
2005
What nobody wants to say, in this land of
milk and cookies, is that we shouldn't be drinking
cow's milk...
Agro-ecosystem:
Tannery and Leather Industry
Shafiq-ur-Rehman, Greater Kashmir, feature — July 2005
Almost all the world output of leather produced
is from cattle hides and calfskins, goatskins and kidskins,
and sheepskins and lambskins. Other hides and skins
used include those of the horse, pig, kangaroo, deer,
reptile, seal, and walrus, but they amount significantly
fewer...
PRCA
Rules Governing the Care and Treatment of Livestock
at PRCA Sanctioned Rodeos / Comments from SHARK
SHowing Animal Respect and Kindness (SHARK), feature — May
2005
Given
the recurrence of the same behavior year after year
by some PRCA stock contractors, there is no reason
to believe that there are any sanctions whatsoever
for violations of PRCA "humane rules"...
Cruel
or Usual?
Michael de Yoanna, Colorado Springs
Independent, feature— April
2005
The
rodeo crowd mellows as the steer — a castrated
bull weighing some 600 pounds — lies
still. Its eyes blink as several rodeo hands roll
its motionless body onto a flat wooden pallet that
is dragged away by horses...
They're
Gonna Die Anyway
Michelle Rivera, essay — February
2005
If
we stopped using leather products, and gelatin, and
other animal by-products, the cost of meat would soar
to an unattainable level for most people, effectively
crippling the beef industry...
Bio-pharming
Begs Closer Scrutiny
Benjamin K. Sovacool, The Roanoke
Times, commentary — December 2004
One
type of industrial biotechnology frequently overlooked
in discussions about the dangers of genetic engineering
is bio-pharming, or the genetic altering of plants
and animals to produce pharmaceuticals...
A
Bloody Fight to the Death
Elizabeth Nash, The
Independent, feature — December 2004
Sixty-five
years on, in a development that would have astounded Hemingway,
a campaign is growing in Spain to take the kill out of the corrida;
to remove the bull from public view in its last moments of
agony...
Chopping
Off Cow Tails
Robert Cohen, feature — September
2004
A
tail is nature's perfect built-in fly swatter. Without
her tail, the [dairy] cow lives an uncomfortable life
of being eternally pestered and bugged...
Big
Farms, Big Problems?
Manure From Large-scale Dairies Creates Environmental Issues
Fran Henry, Cleveland Plain Dealer, investigation — August
2004
While
Mother Nature easily manages a cow pie here, a cow
pie there, enormous amounts of liquefied manure are
another story. The 22,600 cows housed by northwest
Ohio's 22 new dairies produce about 2.8 million pounds
of manure a day...
Could
Mad Cow Disease Already be Killing Thousands of Americas
Every Year?
Michael Greger, MD, investigation — January
2004
The
incubation period for human spongiform encephalopathies
such as CJD can be decades.74 This means it can be
years between eating infected meat and getting diagnosed
with the death sentence of CJD...
Uses
Made of the Cattle Carcass
United Kingdom, government inquiry — 2000
The
public associates cattle primarily with the production
of milk and meat for human consumption, but in truth
the number of products which derive from the cow,
living or dead, is exceedingly large...
The
Cow Jumped Over the U.S.D.A.
Eric Schlosser, New York Times, feature — January
2004
The
Agriculture Department has a dual, often contradictory
mandate: to promote the sale of meat on behalf
of American producers and to guarantee that American
meat is safe on behalf of consumers. For too long
the emphasis has been on commerce, at the expense
of safety...
Dairy
Monsters
Guardian Unlimited, investigation — February
2003
We
used to take it for granted that milk was good for
us. But now the industry faces a crisis, with the
public questioning such assumptions. So just how
healthy is milk?...
Brutal
Harvest: 'They Die Piece by Piece'
Joby Warrick, Washinton Post, investigation — April 2001
In
the blink of an eye:
A secret video made by a worker at a meatpacking plant in Pasco, WA, showed that
this steer, who supposedly had been stunned, had blinking reflexes, indicating
he was still conscious...
On
a Mountain Road in India
Ingrid Newkirk, essay — 1999
On
the bend in the mountain road /
where the cattle have been dropped —
/ dropped, thrown, dragged from the truck — /
I kneel in the dirt beside you now, /
your horns against my ear...
Sacred
No More:
Abuse of Cows in China and India Exposed
Ingrid Newkirk, investigation — 1999
The
terrible treatment of the cattle is not just India’s problem. They are
slaughtered because of the West’s influence. Anyone who buys beef in
Pakistan, Malaysia and the Arab states and anyone who buys leather in Europe
and North America may be part of the problem...
The
Blood of Innocence
Laura Moretti, essay
An
ethnic group in Senegal practices a seemingly unusual
ritual to heal mental illness. Though they appear
to be civilized — they drive cars, wear glasses,
read and write — I can’t help but feel
the entire community, not just the patients, are
in need of serious help...
Torn
in Half
Laura Moretti,
essay
And
so here he came: a little black calf, barely a month old, dragging
himself along on his front hooves while stumps of hind legs
attempted to keep up. Onto the auction block he went, where
he was promptly bought by a meatpacking company... Enjoy your
veal — er, meal — America...
Gitel & Byrne — Or
What I Learned from a Drive in the Country
Lois Flynne, essay — 1989
If
it had been a person, a human being, everybody would
have noticed immediately and acted to rescue it,
unless of course it was a person who was a non-person
in the particular society. If it had been a dog, we
would all have noticed sooner and taken some action
to help. We would certainly not have proceeded to dine
on the flesh of its fellows without a qualm...
Animal
Factories
Jim Mason, excerpts
It
is hard to see it, this mountain range of pain and
destruction, for it is obscured by the mists of popular
myth and the fog and haze generated by the animal
industries. On television, sleek cows graze in lush
fields while dairy industry advertisements tell us
that “milk
is a natural” or that it builds beautiful bodies...
Cow
Dancing
Lois
Flynne, essay
Dancer was about seven
months pregnant when she came to me, a Jersey Springer,
her great bag swinging, heavy with milk from her last
calf long gone, long dead, long veal. Not long ago,
like all the rest, her fifth baby had been taken from
her, barely a day old, a little boy...
Cow
Slaughter
Barbara Leavitt, essay
The
bay next to the boneyard contained the gut pit, but
evidently its caretaker wasn’t as neat in his
job as was the boneman. Loops of dark intestine and
sheets of membrane hung over a low railing surrounding
the pit. A small pile of yellowish viscera was slopped
in front...
Bessie
What Happened To You?
Chalissa, poem
Bessy
has no feelings / No needs / Is inanimate / Goal maximize
$$$$'s / Compassion be damned!...
Appointment
at the End of the World
Valerie Macys, essay
"They've
taken your babies," I said sadly, looking directly
into one cow's mournful eyes. They rolled back in
her head as she bellowed anew...
The
Bull Calf
Henry Bailey Stevens,
poem
Well,
Sonny! Come along, / Swinging your little tail! / This
is the price you have to pay / For being born a male...
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