Jane Goodall: Farm Animals Are Sentient – and Often Sapient

Jane Goodall: Farm Animals Are Sentient – and Often Sapient

Jane Goodall: Farm Animals Are Sentient – and Often Sapient Dr. Jane Goodall visits with a cow. Photo by Susana Name. I first met cows when I was 5 years old, on a farm belonging to my father’s family. I always loved all animals, and I remember I was so excited to see the cows, and their calves out in a big field, the mothers grazing while their calves played and frolicked. 10 years later, when I was helping on a farm in my school holidays, I learned to milk. This was in the days when the cows were milked in the morning, let out of the barn to graze all day, then came in from the fields to be milked in the late afternoon. (I remember, some time later, watching in horror as the cows’ udders were inserted into suction tubes for mechanical milking in a factory farm). I grew to love the cows I milked. I knew them as  individuals, each with her own personality. And on that farm the calves stayed with their mothers at least until they were 5 months old. This was before the modern factory far…