Cute Little Cow Story and How She Saved Her Own Life

What a heartwarming story. I´m happy the little cow is now safe and can just live a happy life! The pictures of her running around and being greeted by the other cows are so sweet 🙂
Thank you for sharing.

I´m a vegetarian, too, and just wish more people would take the time to actually think about where the meat and eggs they buy super cheap at the supermarket come from. Even if someone really can´t live without meat it´s not that hard to get it at least from somewhere were the animals are treated right.

Thank you for that story, makes my day. I too don’t eat meat of any kind and love all animals. 🙂

considering the cow’s story happened two years ago, it does come off as kinda preachy……..I’ve got nothing against vegan-ism and vegetarianism but I prefer if people don’t push it on people, it’s fine to do what you do but no need to try and change others….

I am loathe to say ‘please refrain’ from posting about diet, because goodness knows we have talked about food a lot, here on the forum!

Perhaps, there is a difference, between saying: “I live this way, and it works for me. If you are curious here is some more information (via external links).” … and leave it at that.

I encourage everyone to research diet, food choices, and then make their own choices based on their own personal needs and wants.

Things like factory farming are the pits, it’s true. I personally research into that a lot! It’s also true that things like the China Study have a lot of skewed science and some of it has been flat out refuted. There is truth in all things, and there is often lies in all things, too. This is a complicated, and often very charged subject.

Let’s just say this:

Factory farming is pretty darn sad.
There are wonderful alternatives, such as local pastured animals treated with love.
Commercial agriculture is pretty darn sad.
There are wonderful alternatives, such as local farms and CSAs, growing some of your own, etc.
We all come from different backgrounds.
We all have different ethics, finances, health issues, desires, and priorities.
It is easy to look down on someone with different ethics than you have (we all are guilty of this sometimes, even me!) but much harder to embrace that not everyone wants or is able to follow similar ethics.
I respect anyone that makes informed choices, even if they don’t agree with my choices!
This is something we should all aspire to.

I will leave this thread open, but if it devolves into arguing or bitterness, it will get closed. The arguing and emotional charged issues are why we don’t allow politics or religion on here. When making the rules, I didn’t consider this issue in particular.. which is not strictly political, but is a charged issue nonetheless.

If someone is curious about choices and how to change, feel free to give them information.
Just be careful not to ‘preach’. It’s hard to tell tone over the internet, but it is easy to get preachy about any passion– be it food choice or what kind of horse is best or who has the smelliest armpits.

I work a lot with educating on world issues (especially environmental) and I get a lot better response when I am very careful not to be pushy about what I am saying. We have some other food threads that are a great example of how the conversation has launched into some of these other, more charged areas of food choice, and it has gone pretty well! Be careful what platforms you stand on, and how loud you shout to the audience. 🙂

I normally don’t post on here as it’s my daughter who is the one who spends hours on this site but I would like to contribute my point of view in this seeing I think the responses to her posts are quite shocking. Kim was so upset after reading the hateful comments she received that was not able to sleep. This is a girl who has struggled with depression and escaping an abusive relationship for the past year and does not need to be put down more especially from people in a community she considers to be her friends. To be fair, everyone has a right to speak about something they are passionate about and everyone has a right to their opinion. But for something to go from a post about a cute story and Kim expressing what she has learned from years of research and mentioning documentaries and how she personally has used that information to help her life and help spread awareness to help other people, for her to be told she is guilt tripping, annoying, preachy, impolite and disrespectful reminds me of school yard bullying and people ganging up on someone just because they don’t agree with something they have said of stand for. I don’t see anything wrong with her posts and to be ganged up on like that just because people have different opinions is I think is very unfair.

Is this how people are raised these days and is this how people teach their children that if anyone has the guts to stand up and speak about something they are passionate about or believe in, that it’s okay to bully them into censoring what they say or to keep quiet just to please everyone else? As a parent I find that attitude quite disconcerting. There are many things that could have been posted here that are far more controversial or shocking. I have rescued animals myself for 40 years from labs and shelters and have seen for myself how animals in the meat and fur industries and animals in labs are tortured. I still eat meat that is organic, free range and comes from small farms instead of factory farms and do I feel guilty about it? Yes I do because I know how animals suffer just like us and to feel guilty means you have a heart and care about other living beings and we need more people in the world like that, who actually care, who actually have the guts to stand up for what they believe in and who are not afraid to tell the truth and help other people even if it means putting people out of their comfort zone so they are actually conscious of what is going on in the world and are making informed decisions.

What makes Kim and I sad is every person we hear about who is diagnosed with cancer or diabetes or other preventable diseases who have never heard that there are natural alternatives to drugs and surgery to help them. But I don’t think curing any disease should be focused on more than preventing it and I truly believe if people knew the truth about the food industry and the dangers of what they are eating and if they changed their diets and lifestyle, that we could save the lives of so many people and prevent them from getting such terrible diseases. No one should have to apologize or defend them self for trying to help people and I just wish more people would stand up for what is right instead of what is popular and easy in this world.