The thought of the miserable conditions these cows must have been living under is just tragic. I spent a week on a family-owned Wisconsin dairy farm once, and that was a pretty bleak hell-hole of lonely calves and staggering cows with giant udders, and that was enough to make me go vegan. Imagine being stuffed in a…

A barnacle is not a leech at all; barnacles are suspension feeders. They usually attach to inanimate objects, and on the occasions when they do attach to living animals they don't harm the animal at all. She was using the term correctly, though it is still a weird thing to say.

They've known about the older male siblings thing since the 90s. None of this seems very troll-y to me, unless he's saying that it's a bad thing to have gay kids. if he has data that indicates a correlation, then it's worth looking into.

Funny! My autistic kid is also a never-lying movie-non-watcher. I have a mild form of the movie problem: I love movies, but can hardly watch even a rom-com alone.

The Styx is not the River of Fire; that's the River Phlegethon. The Styx is just "the hateful river."

You mean "prehistoric." They stopped being shaped like that by the end of the Neolithic.

I love dogs, and I am glad that other people love dogs and take care of dogs, but I don't understand how you can love and coddle one species of beautiful and intelligent animal, and then happily consume the flesh of other equally beautiful and intelligent animals. If you wouldn't do it to a dog, don't do it to a pig…

Oh, and then eventually they die naturally, at the end of a long happy life not shortened at all by being bred constantly. And they never end up at the slaughterhouse. Whew. Cool, now I am comforted.

How do we reconcile studies like this (and all the mass of other anecdotal and studied racial differences described in other comments), with the equally widespread insistence you hear from various writers and thinkers now, that race is just a myth, or imaginary?

But isn't the fair going to end with that cow going to slaughter? That's chilling, actually.

You are so right. Milk is the foul. I don't understand how it ever became part of the canon of foodstuffs. I guess they put beaver-gland extract in stuff, too though. People are stupid enough to eat anything.

Yeah, I believe her too. This is a really good analysis of a horrible story.

I know that PETA hate in entrenched around here, but what they are saying is pretty accurate. Going healthy-vegan (tons of vegetables, lots of healthy proteins, low sugar), reshaped my body in an unbelievable way. I just had dinner with a similar vegan who lost 150 lbs. over 5 years by going vegan. We both did it…

Fine, you don't care about animals, but do you care about global warming? Water pollution? The other poor (or even starving) people who could be fed if we didn't waste calories by cycling them through animals? The rising rates of antibiotic resistance caused by using them to fatten animals? The fact that your meat…

Especially when so much of the abuse of animals is centered around their child-bearing and nursing capabilities. Abuse of animals is primarily the abuse of mothers.

Well, if you won't stop eating meat for morality, will you stop eating it because it is causing climate change? Or because it causes water shortages? Or because the billions of pounds of usable food that goes to animal feed could go to feeding humans? Or because Monsanto and other companies are busy creating tons…

No, but there were plenty of people screaming about how slavery was wrong back in the 1800's, and people called them crazy and told them that owning slaves was a personal choice, and that it didn't matter if slaves suffered because they didn't experience the world like white people do, and any way they couldn't take…

Here's where your cheese belongs

It's no different than abolitionism was; people called abolitionists crazy, and said slavery was for black people's own good, and that owning slaves was a personal choice. When there is a suffering party involved, then it isn't just a personal choice. I'm with PETA all the way, just like I was with the…

Actually, meat-eating is much more like jerking off to child porn; it's for pedophiles who don't have the guts to rape a child themselves, so they let someone else do it and watch the film. Pedophiles who actually molest children, and people who kill animals and psychopaths, but the people who get off on consuming…