And here's one you stroked last year........

Mummy cows have to have babies so that:

A) They go on producing milk
B) there will be veal calves because they would otherwise use up the milk
C) the meat market is kept going with the calves that live

A lorry load of veal calves heading for the continent was my final turning point to become vegetarian.

I know about the milk thing. I hate to hear a cow bellowing for its calf.

But what about the ones that are allowed to stay with their mums in the fields? Are they just the boy ones, that are going to be eaten? And what about the heifers ( the young girls who haven't had babies yet)? Did they stay with their mums or get taken away?

I don't understand farming!

And I don't suppose it's a good thing to be too anthropromorphic about cows, either!

Probably not, wotsup! I do try not to proselytise but sometimes just need to! Each to her own, eh?

I was only referring to my anthopromorphic-ising (sp ) Ariadne! Not yours!

Sorry. Didn't express myself well.

I shouldn't have put that . But it was meant to be to me (iyswim).