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August 31, 2007

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How beautiful. I'm so glad those cows are enjoying their lives.

And how hard and sad it must be when calves are yanked from their mammas in factory farms and other meat farms.

Urbanvegan, these calves will be yanked from their moms in November, and we'll hear the mothers moo loudly and frantically, for days. It's really awful. Last time I swore I'd leave that week; it's so sad to hear!

The closest my mom ever came to "getting" (or at least 100% symptathizing with) veganism was when I showed her a photo of a mother cow looking at a downed or dead calf. She said, "you can't understand the pain in that picture unless you're a mom." And, she hasn't been buying milk since then and has switched to organic yogurt. Sigh. We'll see.

Oh, in regards to apple butter, I've never made any from scratch, but the best recipes seem to involve crockpots and loads of sugar. I think I'll give it a shot this year since apple season has come early to my life...

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