Why should vegetarians cut out dairy? It doesn't hurt the animals,?!
Answers: then what's the reason ?
just letting you know, when your drinking regular milk, they are not nice to the cows, the pull on there utters so meanly, that there is blood and puss in your milk, after a milking blood&there puss drips into the milk. So next time your getting milk get organic valley, the cows arent fed un-natural hormoines, and they are grazed on organic fields, and they are nice to the cows, and treated nicely, unlike the other milks out there.
A cow doesn't just naturally produce milk. She has to be pregnant and have a baby just like a human. Cow milk is breast milk for her baby. Instead, the baby is taken away to go into dairy/meat rotation if she's a girl, or thrown into a veal crate if he's a boy.
Eggs and dairy just prolong the cruelty before the animals are sent to slaughter just like the straight-to-meat animals.
If I knew then what I know now, i'd have cut out eggs and dairy first.
eta: the baby IS taken away so you can drink milk. They impregnate the cow so she will produce milk for YOU. They take the baby away because if they leave the baby there, there will not be enough milk for YOU. They then pump the cow full of hormones to keep her producing milk while she gets mastitis and you get a cup full of breastmilk, pus, and blood. :)
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dairy animals are treated just as bad, if not worse, than the animals raised for slaughter. Veal is just a by-product of the dairy industry. In the dairy industry, there is no need for male calves. So they are slaughtered after just a few weeks of life.
I swore off eggs once I saw a photo of a pitiful-looking filthy chicken that was being starved, in order to force it into what's called a "molting" session, basically shocking its body into laying more eggs. See below
A cow doesn't produce milk all it's adult life. It has to have calves every year to keep producing milk. Most of the male calves end up in beef, veal, and leather markets and the females either grow up to be dairy cows as well or follow their brothers. A few of the calves end up as 4-H projects but for the most part, many calves have to be born and put to a task which might involve meat markets in order for a vegetarian to have their dairy products.
Some people think dairy is actually bad for you, and they say they are healthier for not eating dairy.
Like most things, it's probably best in moderation. Of course someone is going to feel yucky if they have milk, yogurt, cottage cheese, cheese sticks, etc all day and nothing else, but I think cutting it out all together is kind of silly. I do not believe there is much accepted science to support the idea that humans do not ever need any dairy, or are unhealthy because they consume dairy. I'm sure if there was some inherent danger in dairy, we'd have heard about it on the news, because they love to scare the crap out of us. Most health news stresses the importance of dairy as part of a balanced diet.
As far as hurting animals, lots of things hurt animals and we do it anyway. We keep pets, ride horses, and make it impossible for squirrels to get to bird food. Of course we also test drugs that have saved possibly millions of lives on animals. I think there has to be a healthy respect for animals balanced with our needs and health.
Oh, but it does hurt the animals. Cows, like all other mammals, produce milk only in response to having given birth. Left to their own devices, a cow would calf every two to three years and her baby would drink the milk. This is not profitable to a dairy. A large dairy operation repeatedly aritifcially inseminates its cows to keep them pregnant and producing (google the term "rape rack.") Female calves follow their mothers into milk production but males are of no value to a dairy operation. They are sold to the veal crates. There is a saying: "There's a little piece of veal in every glass of milk." Dairy cows have been bred to have oversized udders and are pumped full of hormones and steroids to force them to produce far more milk than Nature designed them too. Coupled with the fact that they are mechanically milked, excess milk production causes a painful infection called mastitis. Dairy cows are fed antibiotics in their feed in an attempt to keep masititis under control, but milk has a measurable level of pus in it due to chronic infection. Dairy cows are "used up" after 5 or 6 years of producing milk and are slaughtered for cheap beef - under normal cicumstances they'd live more like 15 to 20 years. How can you say a system that forces cows to stay pregnant constantly, kidnaps their young within 24 hours of birth, sells half their offspring to the cruelty of the veal crates, pumps them full of unnatural chemicals, milks them by machine until the bleed, then slaughers them for dog food "doesn't hurt the animals"?
Edit to add in response to your additional comments: Yes, they DO take the babies away so that you can drink the milk. The vast majority of calves in a dairy operation are taken away within 24 hours of birth. The males are barely fed at all to keep their flesh tender and the females are raised on formula. Cow's milk is designed to nourish baby cows. Feeding it to adult humans and forcing baby cows to drink formula is a perversion of Nature. And milking, the way it's done in large dairy operations, most certainly DOES hurt!
See these sites for lots of info:
http://www.chooseveg.com/dairy.asp
http://goveg.com/factoryFarming_Cows_Dai...
Basically, the dairy cows are warehoused in huge sheds and treated like milk-producing machines. The calves are torn away from their mothers hours after birth so that the milk that was intended for the calves can be used for people. The male calves born to dairy cows are turned into veal, because they are useless to the dairy industry. After about four years, the cows' milk production declines and they are sent to the slaughterhouse.
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Oh its awful.They are treated just as cruel if not worse because its constant.They get infections and they don't treat them,if it gets too bad they cut off the nipples because of mastitus without any anesthesia.The cows can't move and get kicked,beaten if they fall down.It makes me cry just thinking about it.Watch some videos on the dairy industry and see for yourself.A great movie is "peaceable kingdom" and here's a link to a dairy factory video: http://www.farmsanctuary.org/mediacenter...
#1 reason: humans are mammals!
#2 reason: If #1 is not good enough reason for you, then, yes, dairy cows are not treated any better than other animals. It's true they do not produce milk unless pregnant -- cows are also mammals, that's how it works. So, They are either constantly kept pregnant or injected with hormones in order to fool the body into producing milk. Of course it's all about money, so the more milk you can get the more money... so the cows are made to produce more milk than they would normally. This causes all sorts of health problems, so they get injected with antibiotics too, and who knows what else. Their body is completely ruined by having such a huge demand put on it, and the life it basically drained from them and they don't last a year before being sent to slaughter.
There's a dairy down the street from where I live. They must constantly be producing baby cows to keep the business going. Cows are all females. Where are all of the baby bulls? The boys. All of the male babies go to the meat grinder and are made into cat food. No no no... it doesn't hurt them at all. It's the same thing that happens to the male chics... they go LIVE into the meat grinder -- they show it on TV all the time, the lady sitting there checking gender, throwing the males this way and the females that way.
Okay, you have your own cow and bull, they live with nature outdoors, the cow is naturally pregnant, and you only take a little milk here and there from the cow when her baby wasn't busy suckling and the bull was busy, all natural, not boiled, nothing added, no hormone injections... then there really wouldn't be very much milk to use -- people really consumed very little dairy in the past, and made it into cheese and butter etc. in order to preserve it and make it last etc. But again, just because people in the past did this, it doesn't make it the correct thing to do. Tradition doesn't make anything more correct. There were ignorant people thousands of years ago, just as there are ignorant people today. There are some weird people doing some weird things in this human world, but just because they do these thing for a long time, make it into a tradition within their culture etc. doesn't make it correct.
Before a cow can be milked, she has to give birth to a calf, because her milk is meant for the calf. In order to keep the milk available for milking, the cow has to be milked ....otherwise her milk would dry when her calf is grown enough to eat other food.
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You are mistaken but that can be helped through some self education.
http://www.notmilk.com/
http://www.milksucks.com/
http://www.planetc1.com/search/does-milk...
Take the time & do this you'll never look on Milk drinking or the Milk Industry the same.
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