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Dairy cows only produce milk after giving birth and this milk should be intended for their calves. Instead, calves may be slaughtered at birth, male calves may be confined to crates to beused for veal and females may be kept for milk production. During the several months of milking that occurs after giving birth, cows are kept confined indoors where they are often forced to live in theirown excretion. Cows can be subjected to extreme confinement living on small concrete floor slabs amongst hundreds or even thousands of other cows. Female cows spend almost their entire lives beingartificially inseminated to conceive a calve and they spend the rest of their lives being milked. Cows are slaughtered at just five years old as their milk production typically slows down at this point.Other cows may be slaughtered due to lameness, reproductive problems and disease. When cows become too weak to tand on their feet, they may collapse onto the squalid concrete floor. Downed cows maybe severely beaten, kicked and bludgeoned to force them to stand up.


Animal Skins

Much of the fashion industries profits can be attributed to the exploitation and use of animals for clothing.Whether being killed for fur or being sheared for wool, animals face traumatic living conditions and experience excruciating deaths, all for the purpose of fashion. Fur farms keep animals in smallcages for their entire lives before either skinning them alive, electrocuting or beating them to death. Leather is considered a by-product of the meat industry but in actuality it is a co-product andleather sales provide almost half of all slaughterhouse profits. Animals used for leather suffer the same fate as most livestock, a painful death in the slaughterhouse. Sheep suffer immensely in the woolindustry, particularly in Australia where the skin and wool of the sheep is cut from their back without any anaesthetic. Angora wool production involves confining rabbits to cages and plucking or...