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Cows are curious, clever animals who prefer to spend their time together. They form complex social relationships, very much like dogs form packs. Like all animals, cows form strong maternal bonds with their children, and on dairy farms and cattle ranches, mother cows can be heard crying out for their calves for days after they are separated. Please don’t support an industry that abuses these fascinating animals by the millions. Learn how you can help save cows from miserable lives and painful deaths.
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Cows are not the only ruminant animals. Other ruminants include gazelles, giraffes, moose, antelope, caribou, sheep, goats, and deer. Other herbivores (plant eating animals) such as kangaroos, camels and llamas have stomachs that are similar to rumens.
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Cows who are too sick or injured to walk, known as “downers,” may have ropes or chains tied around their legs so that they can be dragged onto and off of the trucks. According to former Agriculture Secretary Ann Veneman, roughly 400,000 “dead and dying” cattle are forced onto trucks bound for slaughter each year.11
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Cows raised for milk are typically confined to crowded concrete-floored milking pens, where they are milked by machines that often cut or shock them. Some farmers inject cows with synthetic growth hormones, which increase the likelihood of mastitis, a painful infection in the cows' udders. They are repeatedly impregnated, only to have every baby torn from their side shortly after birth. Both calf and mother cow, powerfully bonded by maternal love, are known to cry out desperately for days when separated. The cows' female offspring are forced to become future "milk machines," and their frightened male calves are trucked to veal farms where they are chained inside tiny, dark crates. Motherless and alone, they are unable to take even one step in any direction, turn around, or lie down comfortably.
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Cows produce milk for the same reason that humans do—to feed their babies. To keep giving milk, cows must be forcibly impregnated through artificial insemination every year. The cows’ babies are generally taken away within a day of being born—male calves are destined for veal crates, while females are sentenced to the same fate as their mothers.
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Cows were previously known for their non-violent nature. This all changed in the winter of 1939. A cow revolutionist, Fidel Cowstro, and his faithful sidekick, Micheal Mooooooooooore... known as Cowman III, were aware that cows everywhere could have much better lives if they were not enslaved. The reason no cows had realized this before is because they lacked the creativity to envision freedom.
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