Angry about happy cows

cows impregnated every year only to have their calves removed at birth. I am happy to say they may have a point here. It is my opinion that the removal of the calf from its mother at birth is a rather unhappy experience for both cow and calf.

For this reason, we have always happily left all our calves with their mothers. This made our customers very happy as to them it showed we actually did have happy cows.

Based on this perspective, I challenged a local agency to come up with a good name for my milk company, as I was unhappy with the name we had.

They happily accepted the challenge and came up with The Happy Cow Milk Company.

I was happy with the name but some dairy farmers were not happy at all. These dairy farmers were quite unhappy because they thought I must be saying their cows were not as happy as my cows (which I kind of was).

Nevertheless, I was a bit unhappy they were unhappy.

These unhappy dairy farmers challenged me to prove that leaving calves with their mothers did, in fact, make for a more happy cow and calf.

I was happy to accept the challenge, as I had just met a woman who had done a PHD in happy sheep and cows. She was happy to point me to research on the happiness of animals.

I happily pointed out that a happy animal is one that is allowed to live as it naturally would do in nature. And a cow happily feeding its calf is what happy cows do in nature.

Dairy farmers were unhappy with that explanation and suggested that a calf in a nice