I just have a question for vegans?!
I just have a question for vegans?
hey i was just wondering...... what is wrong with dairy milk? I drink it every day, so how is it that a cow gets hurt when it's milked? it's not like there being slaughtered or anything like that. i'm not a veg or anything, but i was just wondering. i also think that we will never ever turn the whole world vegetarian. even though i would like it, because i wanna be a veg. i tried it, but it was too hard.
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vegeterians are better. what do cows make milk for.... to wash plants? No to drink! You just shouldnt eat them
I will repost this, as it was my response to another person who actually thought a cow would die if we weren't milking it..
Cows Suffer on Dairy Farms
Cows produce milk for the same reason that humans do―to nourish their young―but calves on dairy farms are taken away from their mothers when they are just 1 day old. They are fed milk replacers (including cattle blood) so that their mothers’ milk can be sold to humans.(1,2)
Female cows are artificially inseminated shortly after their first birthdays.(3) After giving birth, they lactate for 10 months and are then inseminated again, continuing the cycle. Some spend their entire lives standing on concrete floors; others are confined to massive, crowded lots, where they are forced to live amid their own waste. Cows have a natural lifespan of about 25 years and can produce milk for eight or nine years. However, the stress caused by the conditions in animal factories leads to disease, lameness, and reproductive problems that render cows worthless to the dairy-products industry by the time that they’re 4 or 5 years old, at which time they are sent to be slaughtered.(4,5)
On any given day, there are more than 8 million cows on U.S. dairy farms―about 14 million fewer than there were in 1950. Yet milk production has continued to increase, from 116 billion pounds of milk per year in 1950 to 170 billion pounds in 2004.(6,7) Normally, these animals would produce only enough milk to meet the needs of their calves (around 16 pounds per day), but genetic manipulation, antibiotics, and hormones are used to force each cow to produce more than 18,000 pounds of milk each year (an average of 50 pounds per day).(8,9) Cows are also fed unnatural, high-protein diets―which include dead chickens, pigs, and other animals―because their natural diet of grass would not provide the nutrients that they need to produce such massive amounts of milk.(10)
It would be nice if we could turn the world Vegetarian, what a world that would be.
Milk is a tough one. Unfortunately, because people demand so much of it, raising cows has become an industrial process and the product just isn't that healthy, full of pus and etc..
But, I disagree soy milk is that good a replacement. One alternative would be to buy powdered Goat's milk, not as tasty as cow, but easier to digest, and usually from small scale farms. Goats refuse to thrive in a feed lot setting. You can be assured goat farmers have to raise them on their own terms to get the optimal results.
One reason the Hindus consider cows sacred, is because they give a wonderful product like milk, yet eat only grass and scrub to produce it, and even make manure to fertilize the fields. An important link. It's a big shame modern farmers have to separate cows from this cycle and feed them expensive mash just to up the milk yield.
Katie G. left a perfect answer. There's nothing to add to that. But I am curious to know why her answer received a thumbs down? Is that rater willing to give their opinion?
The whole world would never go vegetarian. It would be ideal, but an unattainable goal. Wishful thinking.
milk cows get sent to meat factories once they can give no more milk. also, they are constantly impregnated so that they do give milk. boy cows born are shipped to veal industries and girls are turned to milk cows just like their moms. they also tend to have a life span of 4-5 years when a cow out in nature can live to 15+ years. also, they are given hormones to produce more milk than normal (i mean think about it. cows produce enough milk for their babies. isnt it weird that we are the only mammals that drink another species milk?)
I take it you were raised by cows P1227, seeing as that baby cows are the only animal that should be nursing off of a cows milk. You don't see any other animals drinking the milk of other animals in the wild? or us feeding creatures our breast milk.
lactose
noun
a sugar comprising one glucose molecule linked to a galactose molecule; occurs only in milk; "cow's milk contains about 4.7% lactose"
Your body needs the enyzme lactase to break down milk sugars sufficiently...as infants as any mammal most have plenty of this present since milk is the starting diet. As you grow older you no longer need milk and your body doesn't produce this much.
ALL humans are lactose intolerant, the ones we define clinically are the extremes to where it shows significant ill effects. Our bodies are great at 'tolerating' the things we put in them for so called nutrition...but the effect is disasterous long term.
The inability to digest lactose properly is called lactose intolerance. It is caused by a deficiency of the enzyme lactase and marked by abdominal cramping and other symptoms after ingesting lactose. Lactase is essential for digestive hydrolysis of lactose in milk. Deficiency of the enzyme causes lactose intolerance; most humans become lactose intolerant as adults.
Milk is a crude form of easily accessed processed nutrition so mother animals have a sufficient and convenient/reliable source of food for there babies till they mature enough to take on whole/natural foods. It's a shame our people have isolated mothers of another species just because of there milk producing potentional.
Cows are nothing special..if pigs produced more milk the dairy industry would all be selling pigs milk. No one selling america food or drink in mass cares about your health..what makes anyone think the people running the tobacco industry are any different then the people running dairy industries? As long as products dont kill people strait up our government doesn't care bout the hidden long term effects.
Cows do get hurt when they are milked..they have little vaccuums basically attached to there nipples in pins with no room to move around..I think the average life of a cow is around 25 years but most are killed or die after 4-5 years.
Being vegan could mean between 5-40 years extra being added onto your life. Too many people die constantly from heart disease and colon cancer...these could be prevented.
If its too hard, or you don't think they get hurt...imagine your family in the same situation, or try milking a family member..see how long they go for it =p
Human mothers don't make milk unless they are breastfeeding. Cows don't either. That's why we keep them pregnant in order for them to keep lactating.
How would you like it if some alien kept impregnating you just so that it could steal your babies and sell your milk? Pretty disgusting if you ask me.
And calves that are taken away from their mother's are kept in small pens in a state of anemia to make veal. Not being allowed to move about freely or even to sit down.
Watch this video
http://www.meat.org
There are synthetic growth hormones that are sometimes injected into cows to produce more milk and these hormones often wind up in the milk...and it doesn't have to be labeled..it is thought to be linked to diabetes and breast cancer..
Pasteurization doesn't kill all the germs in milk...some bacteria go into spore form and are not killed..Mycobacterium Bovis (cow TB) is one, salmonella is another..there are others...thought to be linked to IBS and some other intestinal disorders..
Osteoporosis is highest in milk drinking countries, because the calcium in milk does not work well to protect bones..
For me all it took was knowing about the hormones they feed the cows to keep the milk production going. Add to that I have seen the milk lots in central CA. I am aware that these animals don't even have room to run. That is not natural!! Give them room to run and don't feed them hormones. I see how obese our society is and see drinking milk as a portion of that problem
non-organic milk has growth hormones and messes up your digestive tract, though cheese more so then yogurt and milk. It collects itself in your colon, so that's why everyone tells old people to get colonascopies.. because people in general, eat pretty poorly.. so the filth left over from all the animal products you've consumed stays in your colon.. and if you eat really poorly it could even slow down your bowel movements whic is not good because your body needs to get rid of toxins.
There's also been a study that dairy, meat, and egg products has been part of the reason for American obesity. No, not in terms of the fat that these products have, but the junk that's put into them. Mind you, that anything that's put into what you eat, you eat too. Because of the bovine growth hormones and so on that are put in cows to produce more milk, or poor cow meat that cows are forced to eat (did you know that? You have no idea..) , or the stuff that puts into chickens to make them produce as many eggs as possible, you get that too. Overconsumption can lead to you getting fatter too, and it's still in study whether or not these products have actually sped up monthly cycles in girls ages 7-12. So far, it doesn't look so good.
Besides.. everyone that's telling you you can only get your calcium and vitamin d from milk are lieing. That or they're not aware. Drink organic soy milk. It's pure, untouched, and it has all the protein, calcium, and vitamin d you need.
I strongly suggest you research this.. you'll be afraid what you find.