Cows for the slaughter/ Images/ E400 (14-42mm)

Lenzflair said:

someone please tell the goof in the photo that those are dairy cows
and not steer.......

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'It matters less what's in front of the viewfinder, than what's
behind it'
Lenzflair 2008

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The "Goof" knows. the "Goof" was also just joking around for the camera. Or did you think he was really about to slaughter a cow with that tiny meat cleaver and cutting board.

I got your joke, and well I liked it. But I might be one of the rare individuals of humans, who at least once was present at the slaughter of a pig. I was maybe 7 years old, and it took place in the village my parents have a vacation home - very small village, maybe 20 houses.

Both the butcher and the part-time farmer who raised the pig as well as the whole population of that village (who came to help to cut the cooked meat into smaller pieces for sussages etc.) showed great respect for the animal- so it was not at all gross even for me as a child. Especially the killing was done with great respect, allmost sadness but it was regarded as nescessary.

Evrybody who eats meat should at least once have seen the actual slaughter- and the ones who prefer plastic packed parts from the supermarket should know, that it is much worse in the meat delivering industry.....

Or as a friend of me said as a child: I like minced meat as I don't know an animal called minced.

What I liked about your images: the Dutch put the eartags behind the ears, not inside the shell as the Germans do. This looks not only less anoying for the cows, but makes the faces of the cows much mor photogenic...

Lenzflair said:

someone please tell the goof in the photo that those are dairy cows
and not steer.......

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'The best tool in your camera kit is between your ears'
'It matters less what's in front of the viewfinder, than what's
behind it'
Lenzflair 2008

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I'm sure the goof in the photo would cook the steak regardless of the sex of the animal.

Or possibly, should I just say that was an udderly ridiculous comment...

Oh and to our vegan friends, if it wasn't for the protein in the meat we first ate as cavemen, and women (must be politically correct), our brains would never have grown past the size of the vegan apes.

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Bob

I just finished my T-bone and My wife had a ribeye. Fine Texas beef. Don't know what sex it was, don't care. It was great!!!

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If you think that makes sense, then you must have read someone else's post!

note than a little talanted if he expects to make fine meals out of old dairy cows!
Ron

a Camel is a horse designed by a committee.............................

Yajtsa said:

I found the whole thing very witty, especially considering the ultra
sensitive crowd that would take offense to it. Too many are willing
to sit back and enjoy the comforts of life and then raise objection
to how that comfort was obtained at the sacrifice of others (animal
and man alike).

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I don't exactly see a crowd sensitive people here. Most of us get that it's a joke.I think that most of those who "don't" get it are actually being sarcastic.

Whether the image is hilarious or just cheesy is a matter of taste (no pun intended).

Sometimes the story behind the image can be more interesting than the image. What I was curious about is how he ended up in a farmers field with a guy carrying a meat cleaver.
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ROTFLMAO. Can't you see this is tongue in cheek? Don't you know these are dairy cattle? Look at the udders and the type of cow! Good lord, PETA has infiltrated this site now. I think these images are funnier than hell, get a grip people. Unless a person has never eaten meat in their life, guess where it comes from? I'm really, really grateful I live in the upper midwest, PETA people from the coasts can't survive the 4 seasons here. I think these images are great, get off the author's back people.

Mark
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A camera is just a light tight box. Photographs are created mentally, they don't just
happen by accident.

I also just had a fine steak for dinner and this is here in America. Do not think all Americans are vegetarians. Most of us are normal.
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The Curly One said:

I also just had a fine steak for dinner and this is here in America.
Do not think all Americans are vegetarians. Most of us are normal.
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That last sentence was uncalled for, don't you think?

Some reasons to consider not eating meat:

-- Animal fat causes heart attacks and other health problems.

-- Growing grain to feed animals so we can eat them is a very inefficient use of crop land, and there are many hungry people in the world.

-- The animals we eat suffer. We are animals too, and I don't think we would want to be treated the way we treat them.

I am not a purist on this. I wear leather shoes, for example. But I think these points are worth considering.

Jeff

I have no problem with it and do not consider the vast majority of us who eat meat Barbarians. If you choose the be vegetarian more power to you but do not try to force your political beliefs down my throat. I am still full from that great steak.

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Jeff Charles said:

The Curly One said:

I also just had a fine steak for dinner and this is here in America.
Do not think all Americans are vegetarians. Most of us are normal.
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That last sentence was uncalled for, don't you think?

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I guess so, but the poster the response was aimed at called us all murderers. That's not normal.

Jeff Charles said:

Some reasons to consider not eating meat:

-- Animal fat causes heart attacks and other health problems.
-- Growing grain to feed animals so we can eat them is a very
inefficient use of crop land, and there are many hungry people in the
world.
-- The animals we eat suffer. We are animals too, and I don't think
we would want to be treated the way we treat them.

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How about just because YOU don't want to. It should be enough.

The food chain exists. If you do insect macro, you'll see bugs eat other bugs. Frogs eat those bugs by the thousands. Small animals and birds eat the frog, and big animals eat the small animal. There are animals that will make a meal of a human it your not careful. Its life and its death. Its not clean and without suffering. Its the way it is.

Jeff Charles said:

I am not a purist on this. I wear leather shoes, for example. But I
think these points are worth considering.

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You may consider what you want to consider. The others will do the same.
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Another thing is the original poster was making a joke there is no reason to get offended. It is a milk cow. Do vegetarians drink milk?

Come on lighten up people. NO ANIMALS WERE HURT IN THE FILMING OF THE PICTURE!. Step away from the computer if it offends you.
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Bruce Dodson
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Hi Fred,

I like your style

Give me a call on my e-mail address which listed in my profile, so we can contact personally.

Thnx,
Lodi

Hi Lodi,
Thanks

I cant see your e-mail in your profile but you are welcome to send me an e-mail at [email protected]
Regards
Fred

Gidday Fred

I am a sort of vegetarian - I only eat animals that eat vegetables ... lol. This statement is not quite as silly as it may sound.

Seriously, we are all home to billions of bacteria, and when you swat a mosquito (a good move for me, as I have an artificial heart valve, and the most likely place for me to get endocarditis is from the dentist {3 grams of Amoxicillin before the visit ... }, and the second most likely place is from a mosquito bite ... ); anyway back to swatting the mozzie, you kill perhaps a million bacteria (living creatures) when you swat the mozzie ...

I also have no large intestine, so digesting vegetables is a bit more difficult for me, much as I love my veggies, so I need a high protein diet. VERY hard to get this from a vegetarian diet ...

Leaving all this to one side, when we die, our bacteria eat us, and then the bacteria get eaten by worms etc which break us down into good soil that is eaten by the vegetables ... which are then eaten by all of us, including vegetarians ... CANNIBALS, the lot of us ...

I am what you could call an "animal lover". I share our home with our two cats who are closer to us than most family. I also kill any scorpion I find in the house with poison, as I am very sensitive to the neurotoxin they produce (one sting nearly killed me ... ). I never do this without an awareness that this is a living, aware creature. No animal or human should be ill-treated by neglect or deliberation, IMNSHO - perhaps even IMFAO!

Please, folks, if you wish to choose to be vegetarian (or vegan, as the more "precious" variety sometimes calls itself) as a lifestyle choice, that's fine by me. I have family members and very good friends who choose to live this lifestyle. BUT please don't get oh-so-precious about it. It is a lifestyle , not something that makes anyone better than anyone else. Everyone and everything eats something. Lots of things eat us. This is the cycle of life - the great Mandala. Even carrots are living things, for goodness sake! AND carrots eat people, if they can ...

And yes, I have killed a sheep to eat a few days later, with my own hands. And undoubtedly some of my ancestors have been eaten by carrots ...

Loosen up folks. " Warning , warning , reality approaching; probability against 2:1 and falling ... " (apologies to the late Douglas Adams, a fine human being ... probably has ben eaten by a carrot by now ... he would just love the idea of that).

Regards, john from Melbourne, Australia.
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