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I'm Shelly, a nature-worshipper, animal lover, mom, yogini, and adventure-seeker living in the great Northwest US! I share my life with an amazingly strong, kind man and a beautiful, compassionate and hilarious daughter. In 2009, we embarked on a new path of veganism, and are eating so many delicious, healthy foods, feeling great and finding the transition to be easy, exciting and fun! We also have the wanderlust! So this blog will include our journeys around the world!

Monday, July 26, 2010

Mad as hell at Dairy industry

This is what I just posted on Facebook:
Bawling my eyes out. Just watched the most horrific video of animal brutality I have ever seen on You Tube, of Conklin Farm in Ohio. If you can, watch it, and send a note to this man, asking him to stop (the main abuser was arrested and fired, but Conklin himself is also in the video committing acts of abuse). Just another reason I will not support the dairy industry. Please don't kid yourself if you think this doesn't go on...

Johnson Ⓥ I know that some of you will say that "this isn't the norm". That may be true, I don't know, I am not aware of what all goes on as far as horrific abuse on most farms. I do know that this one did happen, it's on this video and it is horrifi...c. I also know that innocent cows on dairy farms are continuously impregnanted every year, so that they can be hooked up to machines and milked, so that humans can have what was intended for the calf that was ripped away from it's mother soon after it was born. ( I have seen cows and calves wailing for each other when they are separated, it is no different than if you took a human's baby away.) The cows are given hormones to make them produce so much milk that their udders are painfully enlarged, often to the point of infection called mastitis (which makes udders pus-ridden and bloody), and this is treated with... antibiotics. They are simply milk machines. Is this not abuse??

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