My Personal Experience with Raising Cows

I have raised (or helped to raise) just about every barnyard animal now and the most moving and mentality-altering experience I've had regarding raising animals involved a bull beef calf. His name was Baby Moses and he was bottled fed after his mother died giving birth. He was not purebred and he was bound for the freezer. Just not my freezer!

Not caring that I sound ridiculous here, I'll share that I could never eat a calf that I had raised on the bottle. It would be to difficult for me to do. I had become to attached to him and knew that I loved him to much to eat him. I spent a lot of time with that bull calf - and he was never sick a day in his life. During those days something touched me about the life we give the animals we raise and my own methods changed from then on.

Feel free to drop me a line or submit a personal cattle related story. I realize that the world is made up of differing viewpoints on raising beef or eating beef. You don't have to agree with my views on cows to collaborate. I'll publish your essay on these cattle pages so that all may benefit!