Would vegans use dairy products if the animal was treated better?!
I don't think it's natural to consume the milk of a cow. Would you suck an udder?
In response to an answer below: vegan most certainly does NOT mean raw. It means not consuming or using products made from animals. Milk is not vegan, no matter the treatment of the animal.
Answers: No, I wouldn't, and no, if someone did, they would not be a vegan.
I don't think it's natural to consume the milk of a cow. Would you suck an udder?
In response to an answer below: vegan most certainly does NOT mean raw. It means not consuming or using products made from animals. Milk is not vegan, no matter the treatment of the animal.
While many vegans are concerned strictly with the treatment of the animals, there are plenty who choose the lifestyle simply as a healthier choices diet or an array of other reasons. When it comes right down to it, by its very definition one could not ingest any animal products at all and remain a vegan.
if there was 100% non cruelty, - as in the baby cows were not taken away from the moms. the cows were not handled cruelly, the cows were not killed later to be hamburger meat. - then yes! However all those things cruelies are happening, so i do not consume cruelty.
Eww no! Dairy products are disgusting, nauseating, plus cause a lot of diseases & health problems! And they still have to rape the mother to get the milk as well as take her child away so her child won't drink the milk that was produced for them...I mean there is really no way for the animals to be treated ok in the whole milk/dairy industry.
No, because cow milk is meant for baby cows, I wouldn't want to be milked for baby cows...that would totally suck! :)
I don't judge other people for what they do...i only judge myself for what I do.
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of course not. the fact is- humans don't need cows breast milk or a rounded thing that comes out of a chickens butt. you can get nutrients from other things.
i wouldn't because the thought of eating embryos and animal milk disgusts me. still though, if you did you wouldn't be a vegan anymore so no.
I am a lacto vegetarian. And I would be vegan if I didn't worship Krishna. But Krishna loves cows and milk products. His favorite food is Yogurt and butter. We try as much as possible to get Organic dairy. We make sure the cheese has no animal rennet because that is made from the intestines of cows.
Being we offer all of our Food to Krishna the cow gets blessings and they will get a human life in their next life and be able to have a chance to serve Krishna again. So the cows that get their milk offered to Krishna have then done devotional service to God in that Cow body. They will be eternally blessed. So we do this to please Krishna and to bless the cow. But sacrificing animals to eat is a sin. Krishna will never accept that. I recommend if one does not bless their food to be vegan.
I am a Krishnatarian. We only eat what Krishna eats. No meat, fish, eggs, unions, garlic or mushrooms. He doesn't accept those things.
I am also lacto-vegetarian, however I'll only consume organic milk, cruelty against cows is unacceptable.
Meat requires death, eggs are chicken menstruation and (in my eyes) unfit for human consumption. Milk, on the other hand, if harnessed properly and the cow is treated with care, needs no cruel treatment to the animal, and is both materially and spiritually nourishing.
If a cow HAD to go through uneccessary harm so humans can use its milk, I'd be vegan too.
No you wouldn't because being vegan means not eating any animal products or foods derived of animals. It is a plant-based diet.
Nope. I'm all grown-up now, and I don't need breast-milk anymore.
Vegan or not, I'm still a mammal, therefore, no, no dairy for me. Mammals that are meat eaters also are still mammals, therefore, no dairy (beyond infant stage).
vegan actually means raw and not vegetarian. so they would use dairy products if it was fresh.