Do they do this or not?!
Answers: Hi when cows get older like 4-5 they don't just kill them do they? Like on Dairy Farms. Are they really mean to them. or do they just go in for milking and them come out. But its ok coz if they didnt get milked then it makes them really sick so thats a good point. So plz answer this I really need to know. If they are bad it will effect my diet of dont eat animals treated really bad before killing. Its not stupid if i dont eat cow meat coz they are killed really badly and not treated nicely but i have normal milk coz they dont die and they just go in for milking and them come out. It depends how they treat the cows. Dont tell me in TOO much detail im just a kid and dont bag me either. My fam does other stuff too like donates to the lost dogs home and the WSPCA and we adopted an orangutang called lidia that we sponsor. So like answer plz.
ChecK out PETA's website for some good video on what actually happens to dairy cows. If you are a lacto-vegetarian, consider buying organic milK. Most of these cows are still Killed brutally, but have a more humane short life. They are REALLY mean to them on factory farms. (which is where your milK is probably coming from)
Most cows are killed for meat within 10-16 months of life.
They butcher the cows when they outlive their usefulness.
Corporate-owned factories where cows are warehoused in huge sheds and treated like milk machines have replaced most small family farms. With genetic manipulation and intensive production technologies, it is common for modern dairy cows to produce 100 pounds of milk a day— 10 times more than they would produce in nature. To keep milk production as high as possible, farmers artificially inseminate cows every year. Growth hormones and unnatural milking schedules cause dairy cows' udders to become painful and so heavy that they sometimes drag on the ground, resulting in frequent infections and overuse of antibiotics. Cows— like all mammals— make milk to feed their own babies— not humans.
Male calves, the "byproducts" of the dairy industry, endure 14 to 17 weeks of torment in veal crates so small that they can't even turn around. Female calves often replace their old, worn-out mothers, or are slaughtered soon after birth for the rennet in their stomachs (an ingredient of most commercial cheeses). They are often kept in tiny crates or tethered in stalls for the first few months of their lives, only to grow up to become "milk machines" like their mothers.
hi, hope this isnt too upsetting, its very hard to tell you the facts nicely. :(
It's a choice you make when you purchase from large corporations. Put your money where your mouth is and buy from your local farmer.
Like all mammals, cows have to be pregnant to produce milk, and they produce it for their offspring. So cats produce milk for their kittens, dogs produce milk for their puppies, lions, tigers,and bears produce milk for their cubs, goats produce milk for their kids, pigs produce milk for their piglets, humans produce milk for their babies, and cows produce milk for their calves.
On the modern dairy facility, cows are artificially inseminated every year. They spend most of their lives pregnant and have their babies taken away within hours of birth. They are pumped up with hormones to increase milk production--hormones you ingest whenever you consume dairy--antibiotics to stave off infection caused by crowding and to treat the mastitis (udder infection) that occurs from constant milking, and steroids.
Female calves eventually join mom on the dairy line, but male calves are sold for veal. It is this dairy-veal connection that made me give up cows' milk. I am sure you have heard about veal crates, so I won't go into it here.
And yes, when production declines, at a fraction of the natural lifespan, the "spent" dairy cows are usually turned into hamburger.
And please know that it doesn't matter how nicely an animal is treated when s/he is still killed in the same slaughterhouses as factory farmed animals.
I hope this wasn't too much detail for you.
Dairy cows are killed at 5-7 years old.
Beef rearers are killed about 8-14 years old.
99.5% of dairy bulls , all free martins and excess cows are killed at a week old, or sent for veal and killed at 6 months old.
Commercial decisions drive farming.
Cows only get sick if we don't milk them because we feed them protien enriched foods to make them lactate more...then we remove thier reason for lactating. We should not congratulate ourselves by saying "they need to be milked" or "it will hurt if we don't"
I've given you some of the milk issues in a previous answer. I see dairy farms every week because I take-on old dairy cattle and rescues. You should read my other answer fi you want to learn about the dairy industry.
Ther are no commercial dairy cattle that are treated "well". They are treated well enough to keep thier production high. This is completely different to the vision of a cow grazing in a field suckling its young.
There is no slaughterhouse in America where cows are treated respectably. All of them are treated like dirt in a highly in humane way. Its better no to eat meat at all if your family is that giving. It may taste good but think of the poor animal who inconsolably suffer for all its life and milking hurts them even more!
Well, if nothing had been done to those cows in the first place, they wouldn't get sick... Cows, like us, are mammals, and only produce milk when they give birth.
Their calves are taken away from them, and slaughtered on the spot, send off to become meat/veal, or become dairy cows themselves.
We artificially inseminate them so they constantly give birth and produce milk.
Try switching to calcium+ soymilk or rice milk (try different brands, they all taste different...) :3