{"id":67323,"date":"2017-06-26T15:40:19","date_gmt":"2017-06-26T22:40:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=67323"},"modified":"2017-06-26T15:40:19","modified_gmt":"2017-06-26T22:40:19","slug":"for-health-humane-reasons-stop-cow-slaughter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2017\/06\/26\/for-health-humane-reasons-stop-cow-slaughter\/","title":{"rendered":"For Health & Humane Reasons \u2013 STOP COW SLAUGHTER"},"content":{"rendered":"

Shenali D Waduge<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n

Next to our biological mother who feeds us milk in the initial years of our life, the burden of continuing to feed us milk throughout our life falls on our next mother \u2013 the cow. Not only that the cow has become a means for meat ruthlessly slaughtered, butchered and killed for meat. To kill such a majestic animal is immoral, unethical, unjust, cruel and most sinful. As the world degenerates, it is time that the compassion and goodness of humans emerge to outnumber the bad and usher in a world of values and compassion. Let us begin that endeavor by first stopping cow slaughter. Creating a momentum around cow slaughter in Sri Lanka and encouraging humane living will certainly bring communities together.<\/p>\n

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No one wants to die not even cows. Everyone values their life, so do cows. There are countless examples of cows fighting for their lives and even escaping from the clutches of men about to slit their neck. Cows can live up to 25 years, cows raised for beef are generally slaughtered between one and three years of age. Male calves are castrated at a young age, to improve meat quality<\/a>.\u201d Some of the methods used to castrate them include surgically removing testicles with a scalpel, crushing spermatic cords with a clamp, and constricting blood flow to the scrotum until testicles die and fall off.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to research, cows are generally very intelligent animals who can remember things for a long time. They mourn the deaths of and even separation from those they love, even shedding tears over their loss. There was a story of a cow mother whose baby had been killed by a bus, arrive every day and attack the bus showing her anger. At the other end we have countless examples of cows bowing down in worship to people who had saved them from slaughter.<\/p>\n

The truth is dairy cows lead horrible lives, filled with grief, pain and suffering.<\/p>\n

When a dairy cow is born, she is taken from her mother within 24 hours, if not immediately. She is denied drinking her own mothers milk because the profiteers want that milk to sell to humans. A dairy cow is artificially inseminated to increase milk outcome. When their babies are pulled, often dragged away from them, they often bellow for days.<\/p>\n

Not only does the dairy industry fuel the veal industry, but the dairy cow herself is ultimately slaughtered as well. With all this in mind, we have to ask ourselves, Is there more cruelty in a glass of milk or a pound of beef?\u201d http:\/\/www.onegreenplanet.org\/animalsandnature\/is-there-more-cruelty-in-a-glass-of-milk-or-pound-of-beef\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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