Sexual violation now rampant in all animal industries
Re: “While dairy farming is terribly cruel, artificial insemination is not rape”, Have Your Say, yesterday.
I’m glad JC Wilcox thinks dairy farming is cruel and unnecessary, but to suggest that cows who are artificially inseminated are “consenting” because they are on heat, and thus have a desire to mate, is totally ridiculous. It’s like saying human rape victims are consenting if the act takes place at the time of the month when they are ovulating and thus have an increased sex drive. A cow may desire to mate naturally but that doesn’t mean she desires, and enjoys, having a human arm and tubes shoved into her anus and vagina! Wilcox then proceeds to tell us the advantages of AI but, of course, these are advantages for the animal exploiters, not the cows.
Sickeningly, the sexual violation of both females and males is now rampant in all animal industries. Because turkeys have been deliberately bred in a manner that makes it impossible for them to mate naturally, all breeding turkeys are routinely sexually abused. The restrained males are clamped down and have their private parts “massaged” by workers before being “milked”. Then the protesting females are likewise clamped down while the semen is forced inside them. Rape is the only word to describe this disgusting violation.
Jenny Moxham
Victoria, Australia
