WHAT YOU NEED

TO KNOW
ABOUT
COWS
USEFUL FACTS ABOUT COWS
 M O R E A B O U T C O W S

DID YOU KNOW...

Cows are social animals and experience sadness, grief, fear,
pain and anxiety.  

HUMANE SLAUGHTER IS A LIE SEPERATING MOTHERS AND CALVES

There is no humane way to slaughter an animal that
wants to live.   separation from those they love, even shedding tears
Cows endure the terror of being packed into truck
with other animals that are fearful and stressed. The
smells and sounds at the aboittoir terrify them.
Due to the large numbers of animals being killed it is
impossible for painless stunning to be achieved on all
animals. Slaughterhouse workers (and covert video
footage) tell of animals who have their throats cut
while fully conscious, and trying desperately to escape
when they see others being killed
These gentle giants mourn the deaths of and even
over their loss. The mother-calf bond is particularly
strong, and there are countless reports of mother
cows who continue to frantically call and search for
their babies after the calves have been taken
away. Even farmers readily acknowledge that all cows
yearn for their calves.
The calves likewise are upset and bewildered at the
separation from their mothers.
 
SLAUGHTER HOUSES & FEED LOTS
WHAT HAPPENS WHEN COWS AND CALVES LEAVE YOUR FARM?

Cows experience great distress at Much of what humans do to The intensive diet is unnatural and
being separated from their friends animals raised for food would be harsh and many animals suffer and
and family - or herd.  They are illegal if it was being done to pets. die of things like bloat, ulcers or
taken to sale yards or feed lots or Feedlots are where cattle are sent to liver disease. 
directly to slaughter.   gain weight before being There’s no space to roam. There’s
In feedlots, cows can be held for slaughtered or exported live. no vegetation. Usually there’s no
500 - 600 days - almost 2 years.  They’re giant lots spanning vast shade or protection from rain,
Cattle are forced to live ankle- knee areas, packed full of animals that wind, hail or storms. Gases from
or even chest-deep in their own are fed high-calorie diets and given manure cause painful and
faeces - not even protected by the growth hormones so they grow sometimes fatal respiratory
laws that protect other animals like unnaturally fast and meet market problems for the animals.
cats and dogs.  weight for slaughter more quickly.

A R E Y O U
C O N T R I B U T I N G   T O T H E
S U F F E R I N G A N D M U R D E R O F
A N I M A L S F O R P R O F I T ?
Cows DON'T WANT
TO DIE
THEY ARE NOT SO DIFFERENT TO
US.  YOU'VE HAD A GOOD LIFE...
WOULD IT BE OK TO SLAUGHTER
YOU?

Like all animals, cows value their lives and

don’t want to die. Stories abound of cows who
have gone to extraordinary lengths to fight
for their lives.
A cow named Suzie was about to be loaded
onto a freighter bound for Venezuela when
she turned around, ran back down the
gangplank, and leaped into the river. Even
though she was pregnant she managed to
swim all the way across the river, eluding
capture for several days. .
When workers at a slaughterhouse in
Massachusetts went on break, Emily the cow
made a break of her own. She took a
tremendous leap over a 5-foot gate and
escaped into the woods, surviving for several
weeks during New England’s snowiest winter
in a decade, cleverly refusing to touch the
hay put out to lure her back to the
slaughterhouse.
Her life is a testament to the fact that eating
meat means eating animals who don’t want
to die.

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DOCUMENTARY SHARES THE TRUTH THE MEAT
INDUSTRY DOESN'T WANT YOU TO SEE
  
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THANK YOU FOR READING  property or food.
This brochure has been created
by a caring member of your
community to share the truth
about cows and other animals we
are programmed to see as
Thank you for reading  learning
more about cows.
Now you know better - you will
easily observe cows as beings who
want to live...who feel pain,
mourn the loss of their family and
experience fear and distress.