Why I LOVE Cows

I am a vegetarian, I don't eat any sort of meat, and I think that eating a cow is just wrong. I'm not saying that other people shouldn't eat cows, I'm just stating my opinion. Cows may not be people, but they don't need to be treated the way that people treat them. I watched a video yesterday and within 58 seconds a man who worked in a slaughter house was kicking a cow in the head to get the cow up after she slipped and broke her back leg. I had to stop watching it. I ended up crying over the fact that this cow was defenceless against the brutality of people. If that's how animals are killed and made into food for us, than I want no part of eating one. They may not be people, but they are living and they can feel pain, just like people, they also have emotions, like people. We can't understand what they are saying, but they don't like being beaten before being killed. They are living in their own crap and other dead cows that have died before reaching the slaughter house. My family used to own a meat packing industry, Wilson Meats, the same people that made Wilson sports gear. They had prize cows and entered them in fairs, that is not bad, but after they would kill them just for meat. I just shudder at the thought of killing something that's alive and looking at you when you kill it. I LOVE cows! They are my second favorite animal (behind the penguin). It's sad that other people don't realize what people are doing to cows in slaughter houses. I was trying to tell my parents and my mom said "People don't want to know because if they did they would stop eating meat." That's just wrong, I'm sorry but I feel that people should know what's going on to these cows.



Cute little baby cow!





My Cousin Thomas E. Wilson