Originally posted by slick

WHAT?????? You mean they performed these practices without anything??? That's absolutely disgusting!!!
yep, they still do that all the time in the US. . have you ever been to a working cow farm? It's HORRIBLE. The young bulls are lined up in a pen and they are castrated right there, one after the other. It's so bloody and disgusting. My ex-*friend* does this on her family farm, they say it doesnt hurt them that bad, they're just "stupid cows". They also have 5 ACD's who round up the cows and they feed them the bull testicles . . this girl also recently bought two super-gamey BYB Pit Bulls to train them to "work cows" and run alongside her horses (she intended to breed them a start a whole new line of "cow-working Pit Bulls" ), when one of them attacked a calf (HELLO, thats what APBT's are bred to do!) she had him euthanized and she gave the other pup to a similarly neglectful and stupid person. Her family also bought a Border Collie who was sheep-bred and let him out on cows when he was still a puppy, and he got kicked in the head and was euthanized because they didn't want to pay for surgery . . this all explains why she is not my friend anymore.

A lot of "farm" people around here, I really dislike them and hate how they treat animals like un-feeling, un-worthy pieces of meat. There are also tons of great farmers that I know, but I still think castrating animals without anything to help the pain is torturous. I'm really glad they're outlawing this in NZ. . I hope its banned in the US soon