Animal Rights in New Zealand
Have you ever felt pain? Humans experience pain throughout everyday life. As humans we do not enjoy this pain. We feel pain physically and emotionally and our instinct is to rid this pain. It is the same with animals. Animals feel pain. Animals have emotion. Animals are intelligent. But why is it that animals are treated like dirt, when they provide humans with joy, income and entertainment. If animals mean so much to our economy and lifestyle, why are we hurting them and making them experience pain? The feeling we hate so much.
As a country we heavily rely on the production of dairy products and red meat. This is our largest export and we rely heavily on factory farming to provide a large income for the government. New Zealand is contributing to Animal Cruelty as we are abusing cows and depriving them of the nutrients they need, just so we can gain a large profit from their milk and meat. There are many members of animal rights group: SAFE that believes cows should be able to live a happy life. Humans are considered to be at the top of the animal hierarchy. Humans are very intelligent and share very similar traits and qualities to cows and we share approximately 80% of our DNA, according to Science Magazine. Yet these cows have little or no rights at all. Cows on New Zealand's largest family-owned dairy are living in unacceptable conditions. They are bled dry of their milk and fed poor diets of grass which does not give them the nutrients they need to breed, produce milk and when slaughtered; meat will be terrible quality. “In 2009 one of the biggest privately held dairying operations, Crafar Farms, stood accused of allowing dozens of calves to starve to death.” according to experts at SAFE said on their ‘The cruelty in a glass of milk’ article. This is not right. Cows are providing us with milk and meat. And farmers are treating them cruelly in return, all for a bit more profit. If we want to continue eating beef and drinking milk, we need to donate to
As a country we heavily rely on the production of dairy products and red meat. This is our largest export and we rely heavily on factory farming to provide a large income for the government. New Zealand is contributing to Animal Cruelty as we are abusing cows and depriving them of the nutrients they need, just so we can gain a large profit from their milk and meat. There are many members of animal rights group: SAFE that believes cows should be able to live a happy life. Humans are considered to be at the top of the animal hierarchy. Humans are very intelligent and share very similar traits and qualities to cows and we share approximately 80% of our DNA, according to Science Magazine. Yet these cows have little or no rights at all. Cows on New Zealand's largest family-owned dairy are living in unacceptable conditions. They are bled dry of their milk and fed poor diets of grass which does not give them the nutrients they need to breed, produce milk and when slaughtered; meat will be terrible quality. “In 2009 one of the biggest privately held dairying operations, Crafar Farms, stood accused of allowing dozens of calves to starve to death.” according to experts at SAFE said on their ‘The cruelty in a glass of milk’ article. This is not right. Cows are providing us with milk and meat. And farmers are treating them cruelly in return, all for a bit more profit. If we want to continue eating beef and drinking milk, we need to donate to