are milking cows eventually killed for meat?

Question

what about laying hens?

I'm just a vegan trying to learn more.

Answer 1

Absolutely
Bull calves are top of the list.
They are taken away
the day they are born.
Dairy cattle, or chickens
that have been caged, are
not good cuts of meat, they
become hot dogs, or sausage,
dog and cat food. Some, but not
much anymore is sent over seas.
In the form of processed meat spread.

Answer 2

PETA has a short video that addresses milk cows, laying hens, and other forms of livestock. Its called "Meet Your Meat". Its designed to try to get people to become vegan. Since you are already vegan it should serve as a good reinforcement of values as well as informative in general. The video is a free download from their site.

Answer 3

Probably yes! Unfortunately my Landlord does get old cows that were milk cows that can no longer produce milk and they become cows for meat! If I had known his cows were meat cows I wouldn't have moved here on his farm in Enderby. As soon as I can afford to move to someplace where I don't see meat cows than I will. I haven't been able to convince my landlord to stop having meat cows. He says it's where the money is! At least he breeds cows too so every cows life he kills there's at least 2 new cows.. unfortunately all his cows become meat cows except for the few he sells! They do have a huge fenced yard to roam in. The cows aren't kept in stalls they are free to roam around in the fenced area and they do have shelter to go into! He tried to sell me some cow meat and I had to tell him that I'm a vegetarian! He doesn't talk to me much since I told him that! Before I knew his cows were meat cows I asked to buy some cows milk and he had his wife explain that they were meat cows! I don't approve of animals being used for meat but I do note his cows have more freedom than most cow farms!

Answer 4

Just for cheap ground beef. They don't use cows for steak period. They use steers becuase they are more muscular nad meaty. Same with hens. Actually, male chicks are simply killed once they hatch in an egg-laying farm because egg-laying chickens are bred a certain way and the males are useless to them. It's freaking sad. That's why I always buy free-range eggs and meat. I'm not a vegetarian, but I don't eat that much meat and I strive for better farming conditions and practices.

Answer 5

cows are reimpregnated very soon after giving birth to keep them producing milk, When they wear out after 3 or 4 years, they are sent to slaughter-we take their gift of milk, but thats not enough. Kill em and eat em. Laying hens are often in too poor of shape from forced molting, and are usually turned into cat and dog food. Here is a good website with the devasting truth of how animals raised for food are treated.
Its shocking. Why shoukld some innocent creature have to live a horridly cruel life, then be inhumanly slaughtered just so greedy people can stuff their faces? here is the link
http://www.factoryfarming.com/eggs.htm

Answer 6

Hate to break the news to you, but... Although the meats from diary cows aren't the best, they are "perfect" for dog food, sausages, and yes, hamburger patties! So if you care, don't consume milk, diary creams, butter, cheese, or any diary derived products. And yes, after the laying hens serve their full sentence stuck in a little cage, they are quickly "processed." It's sad, but nothing goes to waste in the live stock business.

Answer 7

Milk cows are grade 3 meat, sent to slaughter and used alot by fast food places and low grade stores. Chickens up here in Maine are normally trucked to Canada to be the base for pet foods and also for the chicken soup market. So you see we eat alot of things that can and do surprise us.

Answer 8

Absolutly yes....

Im vegetarian and i live on a dairy farm.....

Our cows get sent to the frezzing works all the time..

But not for the Shop. It is just for the farmers and his families personal usage.

Hens when they have finished there laying years will be killed.... for Shops

Hope you find good info

Good Luck

Answer 9

Yes
"Corporate-owned factories where cows are warehoused in huge sheds and treated like milk machines have replaced most small family farms. With genetic manipulation and intensive production technologies, it is common for modern dairy cows to produce 100 pounds of milk a day— 10 times more than they would produce in nature. To keep milk production as high as possible, farmers artificially inseminate cows every year. Growth hormones and unnatural milking schedules cause dairy cows' udders to become painful and so heavy that they sometimes drag on the ground, resulting in frequent infections and overuse of antibiotics. Cows— like all mammals— make milk to feed their own babies— not humans.

milking machines
Male calves, the "byproducts" of the dairy industry, endure 14 to 17 weeks of torment in veal crates so small that they can't even turn around. The Real Cost of Milk ProductionFemale calves often replace their old, worn-out mothers, or are slaughtered soon after birth for the rennet in their stomachs (an ingredient of most commercial cheeses). They are often kept in tiny crates or tethered in stalls for the first few months of their lives, only to grow up to become "milk machines" like their mothers.

http://www.milksucks.com
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"In a healthy environment, cows would live in excess of twenty-five years, but on modern dairies, they are slaughtered and made into ground beef after just three or four years. The abuse wreaked upon the bodies of dairy cows is so intense that the dairy industry also is a huge source of "downed animals" — animals who are so sick or injured that they are unable to walk even stand."
http://www.factoryfarming.com/dairy.htm
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Info on chickens
http://www.goveg.com/factoryFarming_chickens.asp

Answer 10

Wow! not sure who's answer is right
I've lived beside a farm for years when a black and white (dairy cows) are born the males are taken away, but the females are never I mean never they die here and buried
as far as chickens can't help you there