The sheer number of cows involved in dairy farming today means violence is inevitable and everywhere.  Whether it’s unskilled workers dragging a calf from the womb, beating and electrically prodding stubborn cows to the milking parlour, dragging a spent dairy cow along with a fork lift truck, tossing baby calves into their isolation hutches, shooting  or clubbing unwanted male calves, branding with hot irons or tagging ears without pain relief, dehorning and in some parts of the world such as India even rubbing chilli into their eyes to get them to comply. Behind closed doors the violence is horrific.