Pefa: In Year of Ox
Get meant off plates as people around the world prepare to ring in the Chinese year of the Ox, an animal rights group yesterday called on everyone to leave meat and dairy products off their plates.
“Cons re intelligent, sensitive animals with unique personalities, but the meat and dairy product treat them as nothing more them walking entrees and milk machines,” according to the people for the ethical treatment of animals (Pefa)
“They are routinely branded, dehorned, and castrated without anesthesia. Cows and dairy firms are kept constantly pregnant, have their babies repeatedly ripped away from them, and forced to produce 10 times more milk then they naturally would before being slaughtered and ground up for hamburger.”
It added “Slaughter house workers sometimes resort to strongling, beating, scalding, skinning and dismembering full conscious animals in order to keep production lines moving.”
“As the year of Ox, what better way to celebrate these gentle, intelligent animals than by making a resolution to leave them off of our plates?”
“Mouthwatering, healthy vegan alternatives to beef and dairy products make in easy to make it a year for everyone to celebrate.”
According to Chinese zodiac. People born in the year of the Ox possess the cow’s qualities of sensitivity, honesty, strength, attention to details, dependability, and ability to show affection to friends and family.
- Cows care each cow man recognize more than 100 members of the herd, and social relationship are very important to them. When separated from their families, friends or human companions, cows grieve, even shedding years our their loss.
- Cows love their calves, mother cows have been known to bellow for their babies and trowel for miles to reunite with calves that have been sold to real farms.
- Cows have, Eureka “moments, researcher have found that cows not only figure out problems, but they also enjoy the intellectual challenge and get excited when they find a solution. They clearly understand cause and effect relationship a sign of adumued cognitive abilities, much like humans, cows learn lesson from one another, and have the capacity to worry about the future.

