Photo Credit: Joan Bryden Photography http://www.wildcardwalks.co.uk/photo-galleries-farm-cattle.html
I just found a story here, on the globalanimal.org website, which is a wake up call for all animal lovers who still use dairy. Just like Deidra, the mother in this story demonstrated not only the love she had for her calf, but the complicated thought process she used in her attempt to save him:
By Holly Cheever DVM:
I would like to tell you a story that is as true as it is heartbreaking. When I first graduated from Cornell’s School of Veterinary Medicine, I went into a busy dairy practice in Cortland County. I became a very popular practitioner due to my gentle handling of the dairy cows. One of my clients called me one day with a puzzling mystery: his Brown Swiss cow, having delivered her fifth calf naturally on pasture the night before, brought the new baby to the…
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Truly gut-wrenching to read this story to the end, but what an eye-opener.
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So sad 😦
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It amazes me that people still think that animals are these unthinking automatons when we have so much to prove this isn’t so. There is not a divide between human and animal. It isn’t “either/or,” but this pervasive thought pattern maintains a horrendous status quo.
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Such a marvellous (and unsurprising) story. I can’t believe I missed it first time round.
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It is amazing and heartbreaking. Please do share as widely as possible so that we can enlighten people on the tragedy of dairy farming. Thank you 🙂
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Already tweeted earlier and scheduled another.
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Brilliant. Thank you 🙂
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Beautiful 🙂
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