It seems goat cheese is all the rage these days. Yet what’s even more popular is to indulge ourselves without considering others. Champagne was a baby goat ripped from her mother at birth so we humans could use the milk meant for her. Champagne had a name because she was rescued, picked up with her twin sister from the cold ground at the “organic family farm” where she had been left to die. Swollen with milk, their mother had been taken away to be put into “production.” Peaceful Prairie Sanctuary, experienced with goat care, took in the day-old animals, bottle fed them and provided round-the-clock care. The kids developed quickly, but before two weeks passed, Champagne faltered. She developed blindness and her breathing became labored. Then she died, the victim of polioencephalomalacia, a disease caused most often by diet changes. Did she simply need her mother’s milk -- the milk that was stolen from her? The milk used for “comfort food” -- macaroni and cheese? How many other animals suffer for our comfort? If living ethically is important to you, please remember that there is nothing humane about “humane” animal farming, just as there is nothing ethical or defensible about consuming its products. When confronted with the fundamental injustice inherent in all animal agriculture—a system that is predicated on inflicting massive, intentional and unnecessary suffering and death on billions of sentient individuals—the only ethical response is to strive to end it, by becoming vegan, not to regulate it by supporting “improved” methods of producing dairy, eggs, meat, wool, leather, silk, honey, and other animal products. For more information, please read The Humane Farming Myth. Live vegan and educate others to do the same. - Peaceful Prairie Sanctuary www.PeacefulPrairie.org The Truth About "Humane" Farming: http://www.peacefulprairie.org/humane-myth.html Champagne: The Short Life of a Dairy Goat's Kid: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=293087140827793&set=a.213561172113724.56000.213555118780996&type=1&theater Letter From A Vegan World: http://www.peacefulprairie.org/letter.html Respect your fellow earthlings. www.GoVeganNow.com Humane Myth: http://www.humanemyth.org/micheleag.htm Sponsor an Animal: http://www.peacefulprairie.org/sponsor.html
