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Originally Posted by jadabug  Living on a farm is hard. We raise beef cattle and my DH takes them to the auction market to sell. I have only went with him a few times. Once I had bottle fed a baby calf after the mother passed away giving birth. I was so attached to that baby and he was attached to me.
I had to go with my husband to the market because that 6 month old bull would only follow me. Naive as I am after we unloaded him, I made the comment that I hoped he had a good life with whoever bought him.
I wish my husband had lied to me but he told me he would be going to a buyer who just raises the babies to later slaughter  I never went to the market with him again after that and cried all the way home.
Even though we raise beef cattle we have never slaughtered one for our own use. Neither me or my husband could eat something we had raised from the day it was born.
I hope the little calf is ok, but my husband said if he was stepped on and paralyzed there wasn't much hope for him. |
That's got to be a tough life and I'm sure you all treat your farm animals humanely and not like some of those shows on TV or in the movies. I remember in that film "Old Yeller", that character Tommy Kirk played talked to and about their few farm animals so awful and was really rough with them - as he was to Yeller at first, calling him names and dumb or things like that. And yikes, the way he treated that little lamb that was hung up near that cave where Yeller was attacked by the rabid animal! Rough as could be with that little thing. That's the way all people used to be with all kinds of animals, dogs included. And many, many still are!
But for a world of meat-lovers, we have to have people that raise farm animals that produce meat. It's the ones who do it humanely and with kindness that you love to hear about and wish we had more of. At least give the animal its best life while it is here and not one of misery, as so many meat producing farms and ranches seem to do these days keeping them in those restricting pens and devices where they get no exercise, no life. It's awful when an animal is raised like a plant, living in one spot, watered and fed.