It's not just about the inhumane lives of cruel cows, it's also about the drowned truths that the livestock industry has spawned for profit, and the people who have died trying to get that truth out.
What did the cow go through in her life?
The lives of cows are predetermined from the moment they are born in order for them to produce milk for hundreds of millions of people around the world to drink every day.
Since cows can only produce milk when they have calves, they have to keep getting pregnant.
In modern farming, the cow usually lives to be five years old before it is slaughtered. During those five years, she's almost constantly pregnant, and in order to maximize her milk production, she has to be re-inseminated about 60-120 days after giving birth - yes, not only is she constantly pregnant, but she's never seen the father in her life, and she's probably never seen a male cow once in her life.
As for her calves, they are taken away from her soon after birth, with the females being raised to become the next generation of cows, and the males going into the hands of the meat industry. Because if you want a constant supply of milk from animals, you have to let them give birth to calves and lambs, but you can't let the calves and lambs suck up all the milk.
And many cow mothers are left to watch their newborn babies being pulled away by trucks, helplessly running behind the trucks trying to retrieve their babies until they are exhausted -
This has been the case since the earliest days of our human race, when we entered into agrarian and pastoral societies. A Short History of Humankind describes how some pastoral tribes used to slaughter calves and lambs for consumption, but take something to stuff back into the empty fur to make a specimen, which would then be returned to their mothers to stimulate them to produce milk. Another Nuer technique is to tie a circle of thorns around the mouth of the calf, the calf wants to eat milk will stab the mother, so that the mother rejected to let the calf eat milk.
These calves have not had a sip of their mother's milk since they were born, because they belong to humans, not to themselves. And the male cows usually live for only four days before they are sent to the slaughterhouse, where they are treated like scrap.
From birth, before they have time to see the world, they have been sentenced to death because they have no use for it, because its death can be exchanged for people to eat a full meal. And in the process of death, it can only be beaten to death by a heavy hammer, because it is the only way that the palate can not be destroyed:
But on the other side of this cruelty, there is also a huge livestock industry conspiracy hidden, that is, its impact on the environment. It sounds unthinkable, but in one fell swoop, American documentary filmmaker Jeep Anderson has brought this vast conspiracy to light in the public eye. In his documentary, "The Cow Conspiracy: The Secret That Must Never Be Told," he reveals to us the important reality that animal husbandry companies are covering up for their own profit.
When we publicize the dangers of global warming, it's the burning of fossil fuels that takes the brunt of the attention, but what we don't know is that the methane gas emitted by the more than one billion cows raised around the world each year is the biggest culprit in global warming, far greater than all other human impacts.
Not only that, but cows consume a ridiculous amount of water. When you go to McDonald's today and eat a Big Mac, there's no way you're going to believe that that piece of beef was created with enough water to bathe in for two months!
And we're told to go green every day, not realizing that all transportation produces less than a quarter of the greenhouse gases of human agriculture! Or is it never mentioned? It's like the English phrase elephant in the room, which means something very obvious, but which has always been ignored. And when the livestock industry is also the most important reason for the disappearance of the rainforests, it is nowhere to be seen on the Rainforest Conservancy's website:
The reason for this is really that the truth would seriously hurt the livestock industry - the meat, egg and dairy industry - in real terms! And for the sake of profit, they are willing to sacrifice the lives of truth-tellers, most notably an American nun who has dedicated her life to preserving the Amazon rainforest:
Yes, all of these studies have been researched by non-government and public ****organizations, and these individuals who have dedicated themselves to discovering the truth, they are all facing the threat of death.
In 2009, two World Bank consultants published an analysis that found that animal agriculture is responsible for not 18% of greenhouse gases as the UN says, but 51%, and we've only heard about the fossil fuel problem. This shocking figure is due to the deforestation of rainforests for grazing livestock, respiration, and all the feces produced by the animals, which puts animal agriculture at the top of the list of human-induced climate change. In addition to this, the raising of animals for food, which consumes 1/3 of the fresh water of the planet, occupies 45% of the planet's land, is responsible for the destruction of 91% of the Amazon (livestock, destruction of land), is the main cause of extinction of species and also leads to the destruction of "dead zones" in the oceans and of the habitats of animals.
This is a complete environmental scam! The results of our efforts are no better than a cow's fart, and governments and environmental organizations ignore it because it leads to political defeat and loss of stable funding. The whole theory of the greenhouse effect has in fact been reduced to a political tool, and our understanding of environmental protection has lost its value.
The animal agriculture conspiracy may still be going on, and we must learn from it that the truth that capital lets us see is not necessarily the truth, and that we, as independent thinkers, should learn to get to the truth. It's not that we should go vegan now, but we should at least look at every glass of milk we drink and every piece of beef we eat every day in a different light - there are so many untold stories behind the food we eat.