After video footage showed a pregnant cow kneeling down in front of workers at a slaughterhouse in China, animal advocates raised over $3,500 to buy the cow alive from the butcher, sparing her life and the life of her unborn calf.
The touching clip captured the cow bending down on her front legs with tears in her eyes, seemingly begging to be released from the abattoir.
According to Chinese news outlet The Paper, an insider, Lin Wangbo, witnessed the event, confirming that the cow continued to kneel throughout her journey to the slaughterhouse.
Lin added that after arriving at the slaughterhouse and before the butcher attempted to haul her from the truck into the butchery, the poor cow “knelt and kept crying.”
When the moving video went viral on WeChat, a number of animal lovers witnessed the heartbreaking event and collected $3,572 through online fundraising in order to save the innocent creature.
Her rescuers took the fortunate cow to the nearby Golden Lion Buddhist Temple in Jieyang where she can live out her life in peace.
Thank you for saving her. All Precious babies need to to be free from harm.
omg!!!! I will hear that every night & all day. This cow deserves to live!! Who the f*** does this??? Leave these Cows ALONE!! This is beyond cruel & unusual punishment–these cow didn’t do a darn thing to anyone. LET THEM LIVE!! Give them to people who actually want them.
All who do this are not human anymore because if you WERE human you wouldn’t be doing this senseless slaughtering. Don’t you understand that we barely have animals here to begin with…how many have we already caused to die off? SAVE ALL OUR ANIMALS!!! This is a disgrace to starve them to death–sick, deranged scum
FUCK CHINA. JUST ANOTHER SHIT HOLE COUNTRY.
Such kind compassionate people out there saving this beautiful cow and her lil baby, hope she enjoys a wonderful life free from harm at the temple
Thank you to all for saving her.
UNBELIEVABLE. SICKENING. DISGUSTING. I am ashamed to be a human being. A pregnant cow. A NEW LOW!
Now this is an absolutely beautiful, wonderful story that I loved reading!! It made me so happy I cried!! God bless all the wonderful people who made this possible to save this precious cow and her unborn calf!! You are awesome people!! You will be rewarded with great Karma for what you did and of course you already have the great feelings knowing that you saved two innocent lives!! We need more people like you!! God bless you all!!
Quelle magnifique et touchante histoire. Cette vache semblant supplier les gens de ne pas l’exécuter, comme c’est malheureusement le destin de tous les animaux d’élevage, montre à quel point les animaux peuvent être conscients des horreurs qu’on va leur infliger. Déjà changer leurs habitudes, les faire monter avec brutalité dans des camions, etc … les stressent énormément. Alors essayons de changer nos habitudes alimentaires pour épargner cette fin cruelle à tant d’animaux. Leur courte vie est déjà souvent un enfer !
c immonde et cruel
And where were these animal advocates when, in another town in China, they pushed a poor terrified pig off a 200 foot platform on a bungee chord, to celebrate some asinine amusement park, and then sent it to slaughter? Whatever animal advocates/activists are in China, they need to do a hell of a lot more for better protection laws and all the horrible things their country does to animals not just in China, but all over the world, buying them up for “traditional medicine” and other BS.