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And once you watch it then please send an email to : [email protected]
and tell her how displeased you are with her irrational attempt to humanize these cattle and making the viewers of her video believe that these cows were actually cognitively thinking of the calves safety as they went across this creek!
As you can see in the video and anyone with any scrap of "cattle sense" can plainly see that these cows were not even aware they were helping the calf and in fact probably didn't know the calf was there or give two flings about him. They were simply trying to get to dry ground themselves and would have acted in the same manner in which they did regardless of that calf. Notice the first cow goes under the fence and lifts it in her attempt to reach dry ground BEFORE the calf is even stuck.
It is little rediculous videos and segments like this that give viewers who know nothing of livestock the false belief that livestock have humanistic cognitive thought and the ability to react to an emergency situation in such a way and this is just one more step in the door for PETA and other such organizations to belittle the ways of the livestock industry and provides false information to unknowing viewers which will lean them on the side of the "brave cow" which in the end does nothing but damage the reputation and security of the livestock industry across this great country!!!!!
Please speak up and email and encourage Ms. Kelli Grant to reconsider and perhaps retract her unrealistic commentary associated with this video and the article associated with it!!!!! Again her email is [email protected]
Perhaps an email to the station head wouldn't be out of line either. My emails is already on its way along with my others of whom I've heard from but if you/us as livestock producers, marketers don't stand up for yourselves no one else will.
here is the link to the video/article:
http://www.keloland.com/NewsDetail6162.cfm?Id=0,103137
and tell her how displeased you are with her irrational attempt to humanize these cattle and making the viewers of her video believe that these cows were actually cognitively thinking of the calves safety as they went across this creek!
As you can see in the video and anyone with any scrap of "cattle sense" can plainly see that these cows were not even aware they were helping the calf and in fact probably didn't know the calf was there or give two flings about him. They were simply trying to get to dry ground themselves and would have acted in the same manner in which they did regardless of that calf. Notice the first cow goes under the fence and lifts it in her attempt to reach dry ground BEFORE the calf is even stuck.
It is little rediculous videos and segments like this that give viewers who know nothing of livestock the false belief that livestock have humanistic cognitive thought and the ability to react to an emergency situation in such a way and this is just one more step in the door for PETA and other such organizations to belittle the ways of the livestock industry and provides false information to unknowing viewers which will lean them on the side of the "brave cow" which in the end does nothing but damage the reputation and security of the livestock industry across this great country!!!!!
Please speak up and email and encourage Ms. Kelli Grant to reconsider and perhaps retract her unrealistic commentary associated with this video and the article associated with it!!!!! Again her email is [email protected]
Perhaps an email to the station head wouldn't be out of line either. My emails is already on its way along with my others of whom I've heard from but if you/us as livestock producers, marketers don't stand up for yourselves no one else will.
here is the link to the video/article:
http://www.keloland.com/NewsDetail6162.cfm?Id=0,103137
