We wish it was a hoax, but it's not. Fistulated cows are a sad reality that has existed since 1854, when it was decided to open a hole in their stomach to discover their digestive processes.
He is about to end up run over, his mother saves himWe wish it was a hoax, but it isn't. Le fistulated cows are a sad reality that has existed since 1854, when it was decided to open a hole in their stomach to discover its digestive processes.
It's ‘holey cows’, or fistulated cows, those to which a hole is made in the stomach for the sole purpose of study scientifically its digestive chamber.
In practice, through a surgical operation a sort of window is opened, so that digestive reactions can be seen and evaluated from the outside. Why is it done?
Scientific research experts say, to maximize the yield we answer. Currently fistula cows exist in Germany, the United States and France, where the cattle are guinea pigs of research institutes.
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La plastic cannula it usually has a diameter of 15 centimeters and is covered by a transparent membrane which allows you to see what happens inside the stomach, a kind of horror ultrasound.
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The cows are thus transformed into objects to be studied, this video even shows a mother showing the stomach to her little son, as if it were a completely normal thing to subject the cattle, closed recently, to these torture.
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The fistulation is used to observe the speed with which the cow digests and the chemical transformations of food, through the cannula it is then possible to feed the animal directly, as if it were a tank to be filled with water.
According to the researchers, controlling digestion would involve it lengthening of life and here too the flea in the ear tells us that making a cow live longer means producing more milk and obtaining greater profits.
“We allow people to look inside stomach to see how food is digested and how grass and hay are converted, ”he saidMiles Theurer, presidente dell’ American Association of Bovine Practitioners.
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What can you do
The images found online are incredible and show people sticking their hand into the animal's body. An aberrant practice that a petition is trying to eliminate and which must be signed as soon as possible to stop the fistulation.
SIGN THE PETITION HERE
Dominella Trunfio
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