SOUDERTON, PA—Taking inventory of his life as his looming demise crept ever nearer, an area veal calf approaching slaughter reportedly discovered himself wistfully wishing this week that he had seen extra of his 30-inch-wide pen. “If I’m being sincere, I remorse not attempting to show my head greater than 10 levels in both course whereas I nonetheless had the prospect,” mentioned the Holstein calf ear-tagged as quantity 3149, who lamented how little he’d seen of the world inside his restrictive pen over the course of his almost 4 and a half months on earth. “I believed I had extra time. If you’re 4 weeks previous, 18 weeks appears so far-off. Then at some point you end up in line to be mechanically eviscerated and understand you by no means received round to exploring any of these out-of-the-way corners of your high-security electrical cage. It’s like I squandered my entire life going through ahead—attempting and failing to bend my head down to select up dropped meals pellets—once I might have been attempting to show and face the opposite manner. What I wouldn’t give for only one extra day to absorb the southeast nook of my enclosure!” The calf added that on the finish of the day, he was merely grateful to have lived such an extended, fulfilling life.
