Dairy Cow
I have been vegan for about 12 years so seeing animals in confinement and used for meat/dairy has always bothered me. But tonight, dh and I were watching Amazing Race online and one of the challenges was the teams had to collect eggs, butter, milk, etc. One team member had to milk a cow and it showed the milking, getting kicked by the cow and each time, it would pan to the cow’s face, showing her close-up with her number in her ear. I burst into tears. I imagined what it was like for each cow to have her new baby taken from her shortly after birth, unable to feed her baby with the milk that is rightfully theirs. Now, *I* know that those babies are probably in veal crates but that mama cow must be bewildered… and I know she is grieving her baby. And I KNOW what that feels like, to lose my baby and still be full with milk.
Matthew's name in the sand on a beach in Australia
