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In reply to the discussion: The Eight Cruelest Foods You Eat [View all]CrispyQ
(36,424 posts)not to mention the horrendous conditions we subject them to. And the little male chicks at the layer plants? Unbelievable cruelty.
And dairy cows too. The taking of her calf alone - how cruel to both animals! I've read heart wrenching accounts how the mother cow & the calf cry out to each other for hours after they are separated*. Oh, but they are just animals & don't have emotions.
We are such a horrendous species. I'm so sorry for all the other creatures that have to 'share' this planet with us.
* "The Pig Who Sang to the Moon: The Emotional World of Farm Animals" ~by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
http://www.amazon.com/The-Pig-Who-Sang-Moon/dp/0345452828/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1349711109&sr=8-1&keywords=the+emotional+lives+of+farm+animals
This book has a few tough moments in it, but it mostly shines light on the emotional lives of farm animals. I think people should know about this aspect of the animals they eat. Not that I expect most would care.