[OAC_Sparky]

Actually, if you watched the news, the cow that got shot charged a number of people, including a CHCH cameraman and reporter -- the cameraman had to leap out of the way and the cow ran down the camera and tripod.

As much as you would want to knock the cop, weighing the circumstances; the threat to public safety, property damage and the likelihood that the cow was heading for the slaughterhouse anyways, etc, the decision to put it down probably wasn't bad -- save for the fact that now you have 1300 pounds of animal that can't move under its own steam. It would have been a lot less work if the cow could move itself onto the truck.

I find it funny though, people's reaction to this. Growing up outside of Windsor (in a small town called McGregor) I used to work on farms, from the age of 11 until I was 16 (hey, if you want to hang out with your friends, you would help out with the chores). Dairy farms, turkeys, cows, pigs. Slaughtered chickens with my own hands. I think sometimes people forget that meat doesn't magically appear on the shelves at the grovery store.