If you’ve ever spent time with cats, and observed them closely, then you know how smart they are.
In The Longest Struggle: Animal Advocacy from Pythagoras to PETA, Norm Phelps wrote:
“My companion cats, who are used to being taken to the doctor in carriers, run and hide the moment a carrier makes an appearance. But in the doctor’s office, once the exam is over, they hurry back into the carrier of their own accord. Clearly, they are anticipating both the future misery of a doctor’s appointment and the future pleasure of returning home.”
Similarly, cows are quite intelligent. When the trucks arrive at the slaughterhouses, the cows do not want to go down the ramps off of the trucks. They are very smart, and they know that something is really wrong. They smell the blood, fear, and death. Cows are sentient beings with feelings, who value their lives and their relationships.
If you are not yet vegan, have you ever wondered why humans eat cows but love cats?
I am now a pet-free vegan, but many years ago (in my early twenties) I had a beautiful black cat named Coco, and I loved her dearly. At that time I was still a meat-eater, and I did not make the connection between the animal I adored and the animals I ate… But, around that time, I suddenly felt very nauseated by meat, and so I hardly ate any meat for a few years.
Looking back, that time of meat avoidance was probably my subconscious telling me that it was wrong to eat the flesh of murdered animals, especially whilst claiming to love animals.
In this 2-minute Farm Sanctuary video, you can witness the emotional intelligence of cows: “Curly’s Final Moments and His Herd’s Incredible Response.”
If you are not yet vegan, please spend some quiet time reflecting on the innocent farmed animals… and then I hope you will shift to veganism!
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Original cows image: Yvonne Huijbens on Pixabay.
