The same study reveals that the high percentage of waste in the pig s diet can cause vomiting and diarrhea. 6 Dairy cows, while sometimes permitted to range in open pasture, still spend most of their lives chained by the neck in milk stalls, reduced to lethargic milking machines. Even Ottawa s Experimental Farm, known for relatively humane standards, says its dairy cows are chained by the neck 23 hours a day during winter months. As well, anemia can affect special-fed veal calves during all stages of growth, which is caused by iron reduction. After that period of freedom, however, calves are taken from their mothers, with whom they share a pow-erful instinctive bond, and are shipped to barren feedlots.
Animals face extreme confinement and painful mutilations.
On some larger feedlots, thousands of cattle can be lined up side by side in cramped quarters. 11 Confirms Agriculture Canada research scien-tist Dr. David Fraser with reference to pigs, Several rules of good husbandry may be broken all at once in the few hours before the animals are killed or moved to a new farm. Without question, farm-animal transportation in Canada is fundamentally inhumane. Animals crippled in transit are sometimes dragged alive from the truck by a chain or rope. For example, livestock rigs do not contain air-cooling systems, meaning millions of animals are exposed to extreme suffering due to severe heat stress.