Christian James

Activist: "You keep them pregnant all year round. It's forced." Farmer: "Nine months carrying, same as you. Then a couple of months clear before she's back in calf. There's a gap built in." Activist: "But you make her. Every year." Farmer: "Put a bull in that field and clear off for ten years. Every cow hands you a calf a year, same as the wild herds nobody farms. Annual isn't something I invented." Activist: "It's the insemination that's forced." Farmer: "A cow only stands to be mounted when she's in heat. That's what 'standing heat' means. The other twenty days of her cycle you'll not move her an inch. It's timed to the one window she's saying yes." Activist: "She's got no say." Farmer: "She's got the say her body's always had. A cow you never breed doesn't stand about relieved. She comes into heat every three weeks, roaring at the gate, hunting the exact thing you've come to save her from." Activist: "..." Farmer: "You've come to rescue her from being a cow. She's over there being one anyway. Ask her which of you understands it better."