Please, people, realize that there is a big difference between that animal that is your pet, and yes that pet can be a cow, chicken or pig, not just a cat or dog, and that cow, chicken or pig that most of us still eat. Pet or food source. And yes both still deserve to be treated in a humane manner.

tax the sh*t out of the churches and the 'cows' that run them, feed the starving children with the money and there wouldn't be such a need to harvest cows

I don't understand the downvotes. There was a statement, and of course there are people who know how it is in a slaughterhouse and still eat meat. Because everyone is different.

It's not the killing for eating. It's the killing for the rubbish heap after a lifetime in a darkened shed, standing in your own piss and s**t, being scared to death, being carted around the world, freezing on the way to the killing plant. It's the way we refuse to acknowledge that every life might be sentient - and every life surely is full of the feelings we so long have assumed exclusively human. We must wake up and live more frugally and us fewer resources. And not kill animals after keeping them in misery for their whole wretched existence.

I agree, both are good as part of the circle of life, we should be able to have them. But just look into the ethics of how we're getting it too. It's one thing to drink the extra milk a cow has leftover from her calf. It's another thing to force the cow to get pregnant. Traumatically kill the calf so all milk goes to retail. Cause her infections that farmers won't bother curing, because it's cheaper to just start with a new cow. And then let her live the remainder of her miserable life abandoned and in pain. Dairy cows for large scale industries live 3 of there 20 year lives due to the trauma and pain they deal with. Just something I beg you to think about before taking more than you need :(

I am guessing that he/she is vegan since vegetarians still exploit animals for their eggs and milk.

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You can tell by the way he/she said people that she blames others as if it isn’t her that’s guilty or that she doesn’t do it that he/she is probably a vegetarian or just really self- righteous

Well your point doesn't really work because that's natural but what humans do is over breed these animals specifically to eat and they have uncomfortable birth defects that produce more product

So what you are sayng is that you consider you abusing cows is okay, just as long as they are alive? In my country, you would loose your right to own and care for animals.