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Just like the animal we call best friend, cows Cows are smart and curious animals who enjoy
are loving, sensitive, and full of personality. incredibly affectionate and protective Cows arewho frantically bellow and search for mothers their babies for days and even weeks after their calves are taken away.
intellectual challenges and sometimes even jump with excitement upon solving a problem.
Yet most of Canadas 13 million cows raised for beef live their short lives on barren, muddy feedlots containing up to 40,000 cows and endure branding, castration, and dehorning without anaesthetic. To keep milk production high, the dairy cow is forced into a brutal repeated cycle of pregnancy, intensive confinement, swollen and infected udders (mastitis), and having her newborns taken away from her only to be made into hamburger meat when she becomes spent at 3-4 years of age. Because they are of no value to the dairy industry, many newborn male calves of dairy cows are killed soon after birth or are severely confined for their short lives before becoming veal.
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The factory farming photos above were taken in Canada and the U.S. and are courtesy of Canadians for the Ethical Treatment of Food Animals and Farm Sanctuary.