Eating Animals (2017)

Jim Keen: Self (Professor of Veterinary Epidemology)

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• Self (Professor of Veterinary Epidemology) : There's inherent cruelty in that system. I look back on it now and I say, 'How could I not see that?' Maybe it's like if you don't wear glasses and you can't see real well and you put your glasses on and then, 'Wow, there's a whole new world out there.' Maybe it was sort of like that.

• Self (Professor of Veterinary Epidemology) : Another example I can think about was on a Saturday I was on call. The technician told me that a heifer that was down. So I went up there and it turned out it was from an experiment. Typically, the way to measure sex drive in a bull is you put one bull into a pen with a single female who's in heat, and you see how many times the bull mounts the female in fifteen minutes. In this case, this heifer was with five or six bulls, restrained in a headlock. I'm, I'm not sure why, what the rationale for that was. This heifer was mounted until she ruptured both of her Achilles tendons and broke both of her rear legs. Basically, a cow was raped to death.