Cow's fate

 

Cow's fate

 

When most people in the world are awakening, human nature will show its kind side. Humanity has banned cruel bullfighting performances, and the once glorious bullfighting sport has been banned. Tranquil scenes can be seen everywhere in the fields, and cows have become the protagonist of the beautiful scenery.

The ancestors of more than 800 existing domestic cattle species have a long history, and most scientists believe that they are descendants of aurochs. The aurochs is a ferocious creature with sharp horns that was distributed in Europe, Asia and North America more than 2 million years ago. The wild cow is about 2 meters tall and weighs about 1000kg. This creature survived the last Ice Age, but due to human hunting, its population continued to decline until the last aurochs died in 1627, declaring the species extinct.

When bison lived on this planet, humans would continue to hunt them, use violence to subjugate the bison, and turn them into enslaved working cattle. If their wild nature persists, these bison will be put to death in the bullring. But humans and cows seem to have the friendliest relationship, and that is the cows raised by humans, which allow people to see the brighter side of human nature. No one will force cows to plow or carry loads, and no male cow will die in a bullring.

Mr. Feeley, who specializes in the business of selling bullfights and animals, cannot do the business of selling bullfights because the sport of bullfighting is banned, and the bison have fled the nearby mountains and forests en masse. Mr. Feili found Shan Weng and Fu Niang because Shan Weng Animal Breeding Farm had newly expanded a dairy farm and raised many cows. Whenever guests come to visit, Shan Weng's wife Fu Niang will serve them with fresh milk. Mr. Feeley wanted to start a business selling milk and young bulls.

The mountain man told Mr. Feeley:

A total of about 1 billion dairy cows are bred globally to produce milk and beef. Because humans drink milk every day, children drink baby milk, and adults drink adult milk powder. Like meat, the milk humans drink now comes from low-welfare factory farming, not from traditional zoonotic animal husbandry.

But there is a question that has been bothering Mr. Feeley: Why does the cow keep producing milk? Is it made of special materials? It produces milk even when it is not lactating? In fact, many people don't know this question. A cow produces milk because she has given birth to a calf. But there is no female individual of any mammal that will leak milk from her breasts every day for no reason.

The answer given by Shan Weng’s wife Fu Niang shocked Mr. Philly:

The cows on the dairy assembly line have never been in love, never had sex, or even seen a bull in their lives, but they have been giving birth to calves and being milked all their lives. In fact, the mother cow has never breastfed her baby, because if the calf eats her mother's milk, the mother and the baby will develop a mother-child attachment, and she will not let anyone milk her. Cows are separated from their mothers at birth. Some of the heifers were fed into dairy cows, repeating the fate of their mothers; some of the young bulls were sold and raised as beef cattle, which was considered lucky; and some of the young bulls went directly into biochemical factories and were turned into various serums. , proteins and enzymes! It turns out that female cows continue to produce milk and calves only after they are artificially inseminated.

Fu Niang also told Mr. Feili: Under modern advanced management, the life of a cow is probably like this. When a heifer reaches puberty at 16 months of age, it is time to consider inseminating her. Soon, the one-year-old virgin cow became pregnant. After 280 days, the heifer gave birth and became a mother. From this point on, the automated mechanical milk extraction unit began sucking her milk regularly. After another 305 days, the cows stopped producing milk and could rest. But you can only rest for 60 days. Because 220 days ago, she had been artificially inseminated for the second time. Sixty days later, she would give birth to her second child, starting a new cycle. After seven or eight reincarnations, the cow's physical strength is exhausted and it is "eliminated".

“Pulling out” is dairy industry terminology. Fu Niang explained to Mr. Feili: I just don’t want it anymore, just dispose of it. If you can sell it, sell it. If you can't sell it, don't keep it to waste feed.

Soon, the deal between Mr. Philly and Fu Niang was successful. The cows that were "culled" due to physical exhaustion, as well as the young bulls, became their trading items.

Mr. Feeley is very excited that he can sell these low-priced cows to the beef market and get a lot of profit.

When humans enter a highly industrialized and technological society, it is also when disaster approaches in the world of cows. Humans can cruelly cut off the sexual life of a female cow, but allow her to produce milk and give birth to babies endlessly after artificial insemination. When the female cows fail, they are sent to the slaughterhouse along with their calves.

In some human cultures, cows are sacred symbols, often reflected in art, mythology, and nursery rhymes. Humans seem to be singing carols for cows.

"A glass of milk can strengthen a nation." Humanity's exaggerated publicity of the functions of milk has promoted the development of the dairy industry and allowed more cows to "eat grass and squeeze out milk."

When we drink milk happily, who would think about the tragic fate of cows?

At this time, the melancholy singing of the cowherd came from the distance:

 

The heaven and earth are in chaos,

Spend your time peacefully throughout your life.

There are many flaws in the history of the world,

How can fantasy avoid impermanence?

 

Only in spring do we see the green willows,

The autumn wind sees yellow chrysanthemums again.

The bull dies in the bullring,

Cows find it difficult to feed their babies.

 

The human heart is hateful and shameless,

Animal nature is distorted.

Human nature is inferior to birds and beasts,

I don’t know when to have a kind heart.