Imagine giving birth to a child, and seconds after, your baby is taken away from you. And each year you are forced to give birth again, and again, just so you continue to produce milk. This is the life of a dairy cow. They are impregnated each year so they produce milk that can be harvested for consumption from someone else other than your own baby who it was made to nourish. A dairy cow goes this process until they can no longer supply enough milk for the company, and are then shipped off to the slaughterhouse to be processed into meat. In 2014, there were 9.26 million dairy cows in the US and 206 billion pounds of milk produced. If you divide the total pounds of milk produced in 2014 by the number of dairy cows, one cow is responsible for …show more content…
These animals are killed in slaughterhouses all over the country. A slaughterhouse, as defined by Merriam Webster Dictionary, is a building where animals are killed for their meat. These slaughterhouses kill animals, like cow, chicken, pigs, etc. in very immoral ways. The meat industry and its methods have been kept in the dark since the beginning of the industry, however in the past decade the media has shown a light on the animal cruelty and unethical methods of killing used inside these facilities; these methods are unethical, playing the law, and are a mistreatment of the …show more content…
However its methods have been brought out of the shadows more in the recent years, and what has been uncovered does not sit well with many people. Some of the main contributors to the leak of information on the subject has been from documentaries, ones like Cowspiracy, Food Inc., or Earthlings. Each showcase the brutal mass murderings that occur behind the closed doors of the industry. From Slaughterhouse, a book written by Gail Eisnitz about the meat industry describes the punishment of the cow in a snip-it from her book, “ ‘All animals fear when they’re going to die,’ he said. ‘If he don’t want to go, if he falls down, they beat him with pipes, kick them, hit them with pieces of wood, stick them with knives, if he still won’t move, you wrap the cable around his neck and drag them in with the hoist. You drag them while they’re still alive. Choke them to death.’ ’ (138). This quote, which is graphic, tells what happens behind the closed doors of some plants. This, sadly enough, is not the worst that happens behind the doors, some instances have been caught on tape and shared with the media, for example, a small farmer who beat the cattle with a metal rod for