{"id":5262,"date":"2010-03-01T16:49:02","date_gmt":"2010-03-01T08:49:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/?p=5262"},"modified":"2010-03-02T02:39:45","modified_gmt":"2010-03-01T18:39:45","slug":"your-mercy-for-cows-is-needed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2010\/03\/your-mercy-for-cows-is-needed\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Mercy for Cows is Needed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/6RNFFRGz1Qs&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/6RNFFRGz1Qs&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>The best short video so far, from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mercyforanimals.org\/dairy\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.mercyforanimals.org\/dairy<\/a><br \/>\non the dark truth behind the dairy industry.<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Please seriously consider giving up any food that has dairy content.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Evidence gathered during the investigation reveals:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>~ Cows with bloody open wounds, prolapsed uteruses, pus-filled  infections, and swollen joints, apparently left to suffer without  veterinary care<\/p>\n<p>~ &#8220;Downed&#8221; cows \u2013 those too sick or  injured to even stand \u2013 left to suffer for weeks before dying or being  killed<\/p>\n<p>~ Workers hitting, kicking, punching,  and electric-shocking cows and calves<\/p>\n<p>~ Calves having their horns burned off  without painkillers, as a worker shoved his fingers into the calves&#8217;  eyes to restrain them<\/p>\n<p>~ Calves having their tails cut off &#8211; a  painful practice <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mercyforanimals.org\/dairy\/AVMA_Welfare_Implications_of_Tail_Docking_of_Dairy_Cattle.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">opposed  by the American Veterinary Medical Association<\/a><\/p>\n<p>~ Newborn calves forcibly dragged away  from their mothers by their legs, causing emotional distress to both  mother and calf<\/p>\n<p>~ Cows living in overcrowded sheds on  manure-coated concrete flooring<\/p>\n<p>~ Workers injecting cows with a  controversial bovine growth hormone, used to increase milk production<\/p>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<p><strong>Thankfully, compassionate consumers can choose to withdraw their support  of these abusive industries by adopting a <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chooseveg.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">vegan diet<\/a><\/span>. Each time we eat we can  choose kindness over cruelty.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The best short video so far, from http:\/\/www.mercyforanimals.org\/dairy on the dark truth behind the dairy industry. Please seriously consider giving&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74],"tags":[131,156],"class_list":["post-5262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-veganism","tag-animal-welfare","tag-veganism-vegetarianism","wpcat-74-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}