Dairy Farmer Explains Why Those Who Troll Vegans Are Wrong To Do So

Reposted from a Facebook group -

I'm a meat eater but I completely support anyone who chooses to be vegan. I'm a farmer's son and grew up on a diary farm so eating animals and death doesn't bother me as much as it should. I would however like to see how the people that take the piss out of vegans would cope if I took them to a slaughterhouse. I'm not sure how I would cope nowadays as I've been out of farming for over 20 years.
It's the cattle that really get to you. Seeing a fully grown bullock hanging by it's leg bleeding out immediately after it's been killed is not something you would want to see. That's nothing to compared the noise. It's the live ones in the holding pen that really get to you. Even if they are visually shielded from the killing area they still really holler, they know what's coming and it's distressing to see and even more so to hear. I guarantee 99% of people would shit their pants and cry like babies if they saw and heard it. Don't think eating organic is any different, they all die the same way.
On top of that the ever increasing level of global beef production is an environmental catastrophe that has been going on for years. It dwarfs all the emissions from planes, trains, automobiles and factories. Beef consumption is an incredibly environmentally inefficient and destructive way of feeding the world's population.
Dairy production isn't great either. Cows produce ridiculous amounts of milk nowadays due to a combination of selective breeding and technology. It literally wears them out and they are slaughtered after a fraction of their normal lifespan. Imagine as a woman being bred to have tits the size of watermelons, having a forced pregnancy at the age of 12, having your child taken away within days, then being milked for months until it runs dry, then another forced pregnancy, another child taken away and so it goes on. Redemption comes at the age of 18, if you make it that far, when you are slaughtered in the manner I described above.
Most dairy cows don't see a field as it's impractical with massive herd sizes to graze cows nowadays. Instead they are zero grazed which means the farmer will cut fresh grass in the summer months and take it to the cows which are housed indoors all year round.
They absolutely love being turned out in the spring. I've done it loads of times and it's hard to describe how happy they are at their first sight of fresh grass and the outdoors after being inside all winter.
The Darling Buds of May image that many might like to hold onto just isn't there anymore if you want cheap food. Cheap food (and it is cheap) costs animals and the planet in ways that you can't begin to imagine.
OP - Andy Austen

note: this was being shared by others on Facebook without a link to the OP - so i can't directly credit him.

My Comment

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There is no valid medical, anatomical or scientific reason why humans 'must' eat dead animals. The claims that vitamin B12 can only be ingested via dead animals is false. B12 is found in soil and on the outside of plant food that has not been thoroughly washed and processed as occurs with supermarket products. It is not that we are 'just not made to live from plants', but rather we have been conditioned to be removed from the process of food production and thus no longer really understand food and thus our own bodies. Our body is extremely adaptable to a degree far beyond what most have yet imagined.

There is no valid argument against veganism and that is part of why the nay-sayers and trolls often just resort to outright abuse of vegans and vegan activists. If you don't understand vegans then you are in denial, in error and possibly need to consider you are totally disconnected from real feelings.

Wishing you well,
Ura Soul

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