Cows
Our land our bodies and our cows are all
effected by the meet industry.
Our land and water is getting polluted
from animal waste. Our bodies are getting
sick from germs in meat, and the
cows are being tortured and are suffering.
Waste from livestock in the
United States amounts to130 times the waste produced
by people. In Central
California 1,600 dairies produced more waste than a city
of 21 million people
that’s 5 tons for every person on this earth, and their
is not enough
surrounding land to absorb it all. Every time it rains phosphorous
and
nitrogen seep into our water ways causing algae and fungus to spread.
One
type of algae has ability to ambush its pray by stunning it with a
disorienting
toxin before sucking it’s skin off. this one celled creature is
known for
killing a billion fish within North Carolina in 1995. People who
came in
connection with this cell often experienced memory loss and got sores
on their
skin. In 1982 their were 22 known species of harmful dinoflagellates
in 1997
their were over 60. In the United States farm animals received 30
times the
antibiotics than people did’ not to treat infection but to make the
animal
grow faster on less feed. some physicians are finding human diseases
difficult
to treat each year 60’000 Americans die because their medications
didn’t
work. Every year on average 9,000 people die from something they ate.
One
hamburger can contain the meat of 100 different cows from 4 different
countries.
One infected animal can contaminate 16 tons of beef. In 1995
the annual health
care cost from meat centered diets are between 23.6 and
61.4 billion. A diet of
mostly fruits, vegetables and cereals reduces 40
percent of cancers and in 1996
Americans Cancer Society released similar
guidelines including recommending not
to have red meat in your diet.
Salmonella originated in European cows in the
late 80s. From cows it spread
to other livestock then to pets and wild animals
and eventually to people.
The one effective cure is the antibiotic
fluoroquinolones but even it is
loosing it’s effectiveness. Soon the only way
to stop the sickness will be to
outlaw factory farms and the administering
antibiotics to farm animals.
Modern cows of today lives her whole live with a
swelled and sensitive udder,
it is likely never to be allowed out of her stall
it is milked up to three
times a day and is kept pregnant nearly all of her
short life. A cows life in
today milk factory is bred, fed, medicated,
inseminated and manipulated for
one reason maximum milk at minimum cost. Her
young are usually taken from her
almost immediately after birth the female calf
is raised to be a dairy cow
and the male calf is either immediately slaughter or
it is taken to a veal
factory. At the veal factory they will chain him up by his
neck so he can not
turn around his entire life. They feed them a special diet
without iron or
roughage. They inject him with antibiotics and hormones to keep
him alive and
to help him grow. they will keep him in darkness except for
feeding time. The
result is a nearly full grown animal with very tender white
flesh. The good
part about this is veal is still getting premium price it always
did when it
came from a baby calf but now their is just a lot more of it. Half
of every
butchered cow and one third of every butchered pig becomes a material
of
waste in addition 920 million animals die before reaching slaughter. With
all
the left over and dead animals they export lips to Mexico for taco
filling and
horns are made into gelatin other parts are used for drugs,
aphrodisiacs and
cosmetics. The rest is minced, pulverized and boiled down
for more products. All
this happens just so we can eat meat. If everyone had
a vegetarian diet and no
food was wasted, current food productions would
theoretically feed 10 billion
people more than the population for the year
2050. According to the Population
References Bureau. Even today 840
million people are malnourished and nearly
50,000 die from starvation
every day.