Animal Suffering

Question 1

Treatment of female cows

Answer 1

Cows are repeatedly inseminated and then torn away from their baby calf to keep the milk for humans, causing huge distress to both.

Many can be heard calling for their calf for days

Some self harm if they are able

Question 2

Treatment of male cows

Answer 2

Current UK estimates: 100,000 - 150,000 shot within hours of birth

Question 3

Dairy cows lifespan

Answer 3

Normally: 25 years

Dairy cows: 5 years

Question 4

Egg industry

Answer 4

Factory farmed chicks are forced to grow at such speed their legs cannot support them

Females beaks cut off to stop them pecking each other

Live in cramped cages in their own excrement

Even free range farms, only receive female chicks to rear. male chicks are killed b/c they cant grow as fast as males. They are suffocated or ground up alive

Question 5

Free range farming

Answer 5

Better for the animals but worse for the environment because of land usage,crops required, nitrates and phosphates running into the rivers,

Even hill farming - Economic activity is sustained only through farm subsidies, so the ratio of product to economic waste and destruction is completely skewed