It’s taken nine months for him to get to this moment. He’s bewildered, weak, and — like many newborns, completely vulnerable. The industry he was born into considers him a ‘waste product’, and soon he will be discarded. He is one of hundreds of thousands of dairy calves born every year to keep their mothers producing milk. They’re taken from their mums, and within days, will be on a truck on the way to slaughter. This is considered to be the ‘cost of doing business’ when it comes to the production of milk, cheese and yoghurt — but is that cost too high? Check out the Sydney Morning Herald’s article ‘The Downside of Dairy’ at www.bit.ly/1sLmZA5 — and discover how you can help calves today at www.AnimalsAustralia.org/dairy.
Comment from a friend off Facebook, where this originated: “I have met day-old calves at the (small, “family”) dairy farm less than five miles from my house. I fantasize about driving a semi in there and rescuing them ALL in the middle of the night. If they were women and their children, I’d be a HERO. However, since they are “only” animals (keeping in mind that of course humans are animals too) I’d be arrested for theft of “property”. :'(“
Exposing the Big Game 
The anthropogenice extinction: The study (http://usat.ly/VpWhx4) is about sorting out the man caused and natural global warming, and corroborates a body of research, 97% of scientists agree, of mankind caused global warming since the Industrial age and accelerating dramatically in the last 40 years. We are also destroying flora and fauna with one in three of each threatened or endangered. Animal farming, meat extinction of ourselves and most else, contributes heavily to greenhouse gases, plus it is unsustainable, “eating” up more and more land, encroaching on and displacing wildlife and wilderness, cutting down forests and jungles, destroying wildlife habitat, fragmenting habitats, polluting streams and rivers and oceans. The way we are going, this could be The Anthropogenic Era of the next mass extinction. Humans kill 27 million animals daily for food, not counting the sea life. We are overfishing the oceans, over hunting the wild, eating ourselves off the planet, polluting air and waters, and with ever increasing population, over 7 billion now growing to 10-11 billion by mid to end of century, accelerating it all. We are destroying biodiversity and the wild. We are not yet asking ourselves how can we live with wildlife instead of against it and farming it for sports killing distorting the health (balanced ecology) of it in the process. Wildlife needs maybe half the planet and corridors of connections. We cannot seem to help ourselves, we are a destructive species as per the movie The Day The Earth Stood Still with Keanu Reeves wherein aliens come to save the Earth from mankind.
I thought that was a pretty good movie right up until Klatue wimped-out and abandoned the original plan for saving the Earth.
Right, that’s exactly what I thought at the end of that movie. I don’t see anything worthy of giving humans a second chance at this point. They’re faced with destruction of their own doing with climate change, yet they just go into willful denial mode and pretty much carry on as usual.
I am not sure that “liking” this is quite the word for this article. But I am glad you brought this up about the calves.
Like a Facebook friend succinctly commented: Unless you’re vegan, you’re contributing to animal cruelty.
And I know you know, it’s beyond tiresome how the hunting contingent especially, has employed every absurdist argument under the sky to suggest that vegans are as culpable in cruelty as those who tread into the woods with absolute intent to maim and kill.
Yep, that’s the most laughable of their fallacies.
Wait a minute, wait a minute!!! If I had NOT pried my one year old daughter away from my uber-producing breast, she would still be lapping up at the family trough. There is no time limitation to making milk unless you remove the consumer!! Wet nurses have gone on forever nursing those white ladies’ progeny who didn’t want to behave in such an unseemly way–nursing. Anyhow, how it that human breasts will produce milk until nothing latches on? How is it that female calves have to be raped to continue to produce milk for the rapist powers that be? Simply “latching on” is apparently not enough to continue producing milk —-whatttttttttt?