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DOWNED COW
”The article “Downed Cow” 28 years ago changed my life forever.” – Maria Dolores Power
Downed Cow
The truck carrying this cow was unloaded at Walton Stockyards in Kentucky one September morning. After the other animals were removed from the truck, she was left behind, unable to move.
Stockyard workers used customary electric prods in her ear to try to get her out of the truck, then they beat her and kicked her in the face, ribs, and back, but she still didn’t move. They tied a rope around her neck, tied the other end to a post in the ground, and drove the truck away. The cow was dragged along the floor of the truck and fell to the ground, breaking both her hind legs and her pelvis in the process. She remained this way until 7:30 that evening.
For the first three hours, she lay in the hot sun crying out. Periodically, when she urinated or defecated, she used her front legs to drag herself along the gravel roadway to a clean spot. She also tried to crawl to a shaded area, but she was unable to move far enough. Altogether, she only managed to crawl between 13 and 14 yards.
The stockyard employees wouldn’t allow her any drinking water; the only water she received was given to her by Jessie Pierce, a local animal rights activist. After she was contacted by a woman who witnessed the incident, Jessie arrived at noon. Stockyard workers did not cooperate to help her, so she called the Kenton County police. A police officer arrived but was instructed by his superiors to do nothing; he left at 1 p.m.
The stockyard operator informed Jessie that he had permission from the insurance company to kill the cow but wouldn’t do it until Jessie left. Although doubtful that he would keep his word, Jessie left at 3. She returned at 4:30 and found the stockyard deserted. Three dogs were attacking the cow, who was still alive. She had suffered a number of bite wounds, and her drinking water had been removed. Jessie contacted the state police.
Four officers arrived at 5:30. State trooper Jan Wuchner wanted to shoot the cow but was told that a veterinarian should kill her. The facility’s two veterinarians would not euthanize her; they claimed that in order to preserve the value of the meat, the cow could not be destroyed. A butcher eventually arrived at 7:30 and shot the cow.
Her body was purchased for $307.50. When the stockyard operator was questioned by a reporter from The Kentucky Post, he stated, “We didn’t do a damned thing to it”, and referred to the attention given to the cow by humane workers and police as “bullcrap”. He laughed throughout the interview, saying that there was nothing wrong with the way that the cow was treated.
This is not an isolated case. It is so common that animals in this condition are known in the meat industry as “downers”. According to the meat industry’s own statistics, each year, millions of chickens, turkeys, pigs, and cows arrive at the slaughterhouse either dead or too sick or injured to walk. The animals become severely crippled or ill after a lifetime of abuse in factory farms and a very difficult journey to the slaughterhouse, during which they are shipped through all weather extremes without any food or water.
Factory farms don’t provide individualized medical care or humane euthanasia to sick animals: It’s cheaper to let the animals suffer and eventually die. The suffering caused by the meat, egg, and dairy industries’ cost-cutting measures is enormous.
The egg industry, for example, confines between five and 11 birds to small wire battery cages, despite the fact that the extreme crowding causes some of the birds to get sick and die. Egg-industry expert Bernard Rollin sums up the simple, cold-hearted reasoning of egg factory-farm operators by saying that “chickens are cheap, cages are expensive”
. After PETA brought much-needed attention to this issue, the Kenton County Police Department adopted a policy requiring that euthanasia be performed on all downed animals immediately, whether they are on the farm, in transit, or at the slaughterhouse.
Many other law enforcement agencies don’t have such policies, and downed animals continue to suffer everywhere. It is up to the public to demand change in how the meat, egg, and dairy industries treat animals, and it is up to consumers to refuse to purchase the products of this miserable industry. Otherwise, many more animals will continue to suffer the same agonizing fate of this nameless cow.
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So what can you do? You can go vegan. It’s as simple as that. This torture isn’t endured by animals in meat industries only. Go vegan and refuse to fund and support this insane cruelty and heartlessness. Spread the word. Educate.
A diet which includes animal products and byproducts are not good for you, for the animals, or for the planet.
AG GAG BILLS ALLOW CRUELTY TO GO UNPUNISHED. THEY MUST BE STOPPED!
URGENT: California’s ag-gag bill exempts factory farms that accidentally record their own abuses.
Please REBLOG and call today!
UPDATE: Great news! California’s #AgGag bill was just pulled by sponsor! No hearing today. This zombie bill may arise later in the year, but it is dead for now. Safe to say that this is all due to everyone making calls, and all the work of groups like The Humane Society of the United States, ASPCA, Teamsters, The Sierra Club, Government
Accountability Project and many others. via Green Is The New Red
SUFFER THE LITTLE CHILDREN :-(((
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Animal crush videos are still legal in the UK
What are animal crush videos? They are videos which contain the abuse of small animals like puppies, rabbits, mice, and kittens, for sexual satisfaction.
The animals are tortured slowly and in the most horrific ways. They are burned, stepped on, skinned, dismembered, nailed, and other such forms of cruelty.
THIS IS HOW WE TREAT THE MOTHERS OF THIS PLANET.
KARMA IS A BULL WHOS HAD ENOUGH!
THEY SAY SHARKS DON’T CRY BUT I SAY THAT’S BULLSHIT. PLEASE WATCH AND REBLOG. DO YOU THINK SHARKS CRY?
PLEASE WATCH THIS VIDEO AND REPOST!
“Sharks Don’t Cry”
This is one of the most disgusting acts of animal cruelty I have ever seen. Some people seem to only have a problem with animal cruelty when it’s happening to something cute and fluffy – but practices like this are taking place worldwide on a daily basis and few people are even batting an eyelid. Tiger sharks are endangered to say the least.
This clip is of a baby tiger shark, it’s fins are sliced off to be sold, and the bleeding, finless shark is then thrown back into the ocean to die. All this time the shark is still alive. It’s on land and it cannot breathe properly.
Could you bear to watch a kitten have its paws cut off and left to die? No? Then why let this happen? Shark finning is still legal in many countries across the world.
Help make it stop.
Please, reblog this or donate money to raise awareness and help fight the hideous cruelty of shark finning.
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