Why dont some vegetarians (vegans) drink milk?!
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Answers: im becoming a vegetarian im still going to drink milk, but i just want to know whats the point of not drinking milk
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-alex(:
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So, I drink milk ONLY if it is from free range, organically fed, happy cows. The issue with buying, drinking, and supporting the milk business is this... They treat their cows HORRIBLY! When they are babies, they are either tied down to stalls to be killed in a week for veal, or they are sent to a dairy farm right after they are born. From there, they are pumped full or inhumane steroids that make them produce milk unnaturally fast, and sometimes they are not even milked, which causes them severe pain if they are not. They are fed a diet of steroids and other cows, (this saves the farm money instead of buying expensive grain for a happy cow). After they are nearly milked to death, they may breed, in which their calf's are taken away minutes after birth to be either slaughtered or taken away to another dairy farm. Then, the mothers are shipped in trucks with no food, water, blankets or anything to a slaughter house. When they are being shipped, sometimes for days on end, it does not matter if it is snowing, or below freezing, or if it is hot, and they have no water. They have no room to move as they are packed so tightly in they cant take a step. While driving cows to slaughter, a truck was pulled over, and inside the cows were frozen to the bottom of the truck, still live, in their own feces and urine. After they arrive at the slaughter house, the cows are prodded into the slaughter room, where they are tied upside down by their feet, and stunned by a club. Most of the time, the club misses and the cows are ripped apart by machines still kicking an screaming in pain. Thus end their torturous, hellish life.
This is why I do not eat any meat, and I don't support un-organic dairy or egg farm.
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Lily K
Extreme vegans/vegetarians don't drink milk because of how the cows are treated too get the milk, its true they are in very poor conditions and usually die of exhaustion.
Being a vega is not about health for some people it's about exploitation of animals and milk comes from animals / unless i'ts soy milk. I am not a vegetarian
Being a Vegetarian and a Vegan are two different things. Vegetarian means eating no meat and being vegan means you dont eat any animal products, and milk comes from cows.
I used to have a friend who was a strict vegan, and he said the reason he doesn't drink milk is because the cows aren't treated very nice in the milking facility, and that milk can be up to 17% puss (because of poor treatment, from what he said)...which is gross.
some vegetarians just don't eat meat. More stricked vegetarians do not eat or drink anything that comes from any animal, such as eggs from a chicken, milk from a cow, chees etc...
Either for health or ethical reasons.
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Choosing not to drink milk can be for many reasons.
It can be ethical: The milk processing factories are not necessarily any more humane than the meat factories. The cows are often over milked leading to many bad effects and overall quality of life is usually low.
It can be health: Cow's milk is chemically optimal for calves, not humans. Although many have evolved thick enough stomachs, a large percentage of the population is lactose-intolerant, whether they know it or not. I think Asia is around 90% lactose intolerant.
Milk does not contain any nutrients that we need that can't be found elsewhere.
Try going without milk for a week. See how you feel. When I stopped eating dairy, I lost weight and generally felt more healthy.
Vegans don't eat any animal products. milk is an animal product
I am a vegetarian and I don't drink milk.
In my opinion, milk is nasty because it has pus and traces of blood of where the machines cut the poor cows and it gets in the milk.
They treat the cows horribly too.
And just the thought about drinking pus and blood isn't too appealing to me!
My favorite is rice milk! I love it! Soy milk is yummy too!!!
Milk is an animal product. Vegans don't wear, use, or eat animal products.
The point is that the dairy industry is every bit as cruel as the beef industry. And that the dairy industry directly supports the production of veal.
In order to produce milk and cow has to give birth. Normally this would happen every two to three years, but in an industrial dairy operation, she'll be artificially inseminated repeatedly so that she gives birth every 11 months (cow gestate for the same nine months as humans do) to keep her producing. Her female babies will be removed from her within the first day of life so they don't eat up the profits, and ultimately they will follow their mothers into a life of misery. Her male babies are literally useless to a dairy operation since they will never produce a drop of milk; they are sold to the veal crates. Dairy cows have been bred to have oversized udders and are pumped full of steroids and hormones to force them to produce several times the milk that nature designed them to. They are milked mechanically, which leads to a painful infection in their teats. They are then pumped full of antibiotics to try to keep the mastitis at bay. While a cow would normally live for 20 years or so, a dairy cow is used up and worn out at 5 years and is then slaughtered for cheap burgers.
Beyond the cruelty of milk is the fact that it's not necessary in the diet. Nature designed mammals to drink mother's milk in infancy and designed each species' milk to be the perfect food for infants of that species. Cow milk is made for baby cows, who double their body weight in the first 40 days of life and grow to half a ton in a year. Unless that's your goal, cow milk is not designed for you. We are the only species that drinks the milk of another species and we are the only species that drinks milk past infancy. It's ridiculous to think that we are "required" to do this or that there's any reason why we "need" milk. In fact, most humans become lactose intolerant around the age of 5 because nature has determined that we don't need to digest it past that age. The Dairy Councils have done a great job of brainwashing us to think that their products are necessary to get enough calcium in your diet, but the populations that drink the most milk have the highest rates of osteoporosis and the populations that drink the least have the lowest rates of osteoporosis. The fact is that milk is not the excellent source of calcium that it's cracked up to be because the mere act of digesting animal protein (which is in milk) causes the body to leach calcium OUT of the bones and excrete it in urine.
because of the process... the cow goes through the same cruel conditions in a factory farm to get milk as it does to make meat. also the old cows when done milking get sent to slaughter anyway so it supports the meat industry too. i stopped drinking milk but i'm not fully vegan, if i'm out i eat products that may have been made with milk. at home though i use soy milk.
I don't drink it for a few reasons.
1. I've never really liked milk in the first place...it's too thick.
2. It just seems weird. Cows make milk for their babies. The cows are impregnated and then the babies are taken away and made into veal or grow up to be milk cows like their moms.
3. The cows are treated horribly, and at the end of their sad lives, they are killed and people eat them.
4. Milk contains pus and other nasty things that I don't want to consume.
I use soy milk in my cereal and to cook with.
sometimes the vitamins added to milk are not vegetarian.
What's the "point" of not eating meat? Google videos of the dairy industry, please.