Mike Lanigan, a farmer in Uxbridge, Ontario, used to raise cows to be sent to slaughter. But now he's had a huge change of heart.

Lanigan first moved to the farm back in the 1950s when he was just a kid. After university, he left the farming life for 20 years, but ended up returning and buying the farm from his father's estate.

Running a farm is expensive, so like many other farmers, Lanigan brought cows to the butcher to pay the bills.

"I never liked that part," said Lanigan in a video made by his employee, Edith Barabash. "As a farmer you can kind of just turn off that part."

Or at least he did up until a couple of months ago as he was helping a newborn calf get its first milk. "I was doing it with such love, and talking to it, and cleaning the scuzz of its face and trying to get it on its mamma," said Lanigan.

Or at least he did up until a couple of months ago as he was helping a newborn calf get its first milk. "I was doing it with such love, and talking to it, and cleaning the scuzz of its face and trying to get it on its mamma," said Lanigan.

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Mike Lanigan, a farmer in Uxbridge, Ontario, used to raise cows to be sent to slaughter. But now he's had a huge change of heart.

Lanigan first moved to the farm back in the 1950s when he was just a kid. After university, he left the farming life for 20 years, but ended up returning and buying the farm from his father's estate.

Or at least he did up until a couple of months ago as he was helping a newborn calf get its first milk. "I was doing it with such love, and talking to it, and cleaning the scuzz of its face and trying to get it on its mamma," said Lanigan.

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