What's the name for a vegetarian that eats dairy products ONLY from farms that treat animals kindly?!
Basically what I'm asking, is if there is a name between vegetarian and vegan.
Answers: For instance, I will eat NO dairy products that are in any way related to factory farms. But others, such as Stonyfield Farms, treat their animals kindly.
Basically what I'm asking, is if there is a name between vegetarian and vegan.
Vegetarians dont eat meat.
Vegans dont eat meat or anything connected to an animal (honey -from bees , eggs - from chickens, etc.)
No farms treat animals kindly.
The whole green farm image is gone and has been replaced with factory farms.
And it doesnt matter how good they are treated because as soon as they are 3 or 4 the animals get sent to the slaughterhouse, to be killed.
If you eat eggs, you're ovo-lacto vegetarian; if not, lacto-vegetarian. There is no term to differentiate the source of your dairy. And there is no such thing as humane milk. Even the "nicest" farms kill the animals when production declines.
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No there isn't, its just vegetarian
the name for a vegetarian that eats dairy products from organic/free range and friendly dairy producers is Melissa I
Eggs and milk: lacto ovo vegetarian
Just milk: lacto vegetarian
lacto-organico-vegetarian?
It doesn't matter if they're happy eggs from happiest chickens on earth... if you eat animal products, you're not vegan.
A vegetarian who abstains from dairy but still consumes eggs is an ovo-vegetarian.
That person would be called a vegetarian.
Some people will probably use words like "informed" or "compassionate" but essentially its a vegetarian diet.
There is no such thing as dairy from a farm that treats the aniamls well, the dairy process requires that the male cattle, free martins are killed - this is not treating animals kindly.
You may buy your milk from a better farm, but they still kill cows to keep the price of milk down, you will not find any commercial business that keeps all the bull cattle for 20 years and allows then to die naturally
An average commercial dairy farm will do this:
Artificial incemination every year
Cows would naturally calve every 2-3 years. Dairy farms artificially inceminate them every 11 months. This causes excessive stress on the cows body, increses the chance of prolapse and generally "wears them out"
Protein enriched feed
The feed they are given is enriched with artificial growth foods. these are generally made with cattle meat protiens.
Bribe/feed caged carousels
These suck. They are large rotating carousels where the cows are caged in a space where they cannot move. They have "black boxes" on thier legs which communicate with the main operating computer. They are fed just the right amount of food depending on how much milk they gave yesterday. They have added growth food if thier production drops
One person can milk about 400 cattle on a carousel so there is no time for checking the animals health - they just milk them dry and kick them out.
killing bulls, excess calves and free martins at 1 week old
All bulls are killed at 1 week old, although some farms iin the UK started ( in 2006 ) shipping them to Continental Europe for veal again. They do not keep any back for breeding as they bring in new blood lines. In the UK we don't use dairy bull calves for veal anymore in country. They are either killed, or shipped out. Bull calves go to make low quality leather products such as cheap sofas.
They kill all free martins as there is a good chance they will be barren.
Strangly, they feed these animals with colostrum at birth to keep them alive, but then kill them a week later.
excess feeding to produce 60 lites of milk per day
The growth food is all designed to produce excess milk. Cows are naturally designed to produce about 15 litres. The european targets for 2009 are set at 90 litres, i don't think it need me to tell you if this is heading the right or wrong direction.
intensive rearing means low husbandry checks
As mentioned above, most automatic dairies have one milkmaid per session, thats it. I know a dairy farm with 1200 cattle and 3 employees. Tell me how they can ever check the cattle....
removing calves from mothers after colostrum feed
This is stressful, cows bawl for weeks for thier young, calling them to be fed. Obviously the calf cannot "run to mom" because its in dog food by now.
killing the cow at 7 years old
Cows can naturally live to 20 years old. Production dairy cows are killed after 4-6 births so are never kept after 7 years old.
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