Milk, Cheese, Vegetarian?!

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Cheese that does not contain animal rennet is vegetarian.

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a very basic description of a vegetarian is a person who does not eat animals. Vegans, in general, do not eat ANY animal products which would mean no milk or eggs. Eggs are not chicken embryos. In the roughest of terms, they are chicken period. Yeah. Chicken period. They are unfertilized eggs. As for milk, it is an animal product so vegans dont generally consume it.

Nowadays, however, there are different grades of vegetarianism and veganism. It just depends on what you are comfortable with. Research the industry you are questioning (like the milk industry) and find out for sure if you are ok with all aspects of the business. If you are not, cut it out of your diet.

Some things you may not know about the milk industry: female cows are almost consistently forced to be impregnated so that they continue to produce milk. The calves are taken from them at a young age and either auctioned off or taken to a veal farm. Some of the milking machines cause irritation, and can leave small scrapes and cuts from pinching which can cause the milk to end up contaminated. This may not be true of all dairy farms, which is why you should thoroughly research any industry you have problems with before deciding whether or not to cut it out of your diet.

Yep they can eat dairy and/or egg. Both milk and cheese are considered dairy products.

You can have dairy but not egg and be vegetarian. You can have egg but not dairy and be vegetarian. You can have BOTH dairy and egg and be vegetarian. The defining landmark of vegetarianism is no meat or seafood/fish.

Well, yes, it's painful for the cow to have milk inside of itself and not have it taken away (either by humans or a baby calf). However, if you always milked the cow, it would just keep lactating. If someone wants a cow to STOP lactating (producing milk), you must leave the milk inside the cow. The cow has milk because it was impregnated, and the milk is there to feed its baby. The baby may be taken away after birth, or after it has grown to it's designated size, and then humans on farms milk the cows that were pregnant and had given birth and sell that milk.

The reason why cows produce milk and how that milk is stopped are very similar to humans. Human women produce milk due to pregnancy, and the milk is continually produced as long as it is taken from the breast (either by a baby or otherwise). If the woman was pregnant 10 years ago but her breasts are still regularly milked, she will still lactate. In order to stop the lactation, the milk must be left in the body for the body to get rid of after it realizes milk does not need to be produced or present in the body any longer.

Knowing that, it's really up to you to decide whether it's right or wrong.

Personally, I don't think it's wrong if the cows are treated humanely, milked humanely (i.e. not rough, etc), and are not over-milked. Dairy IS very good for you from a nutritional standpoint, and things like vitamin B12 are only found in dairy (calcium can be found elsewhere; as well as other "milk" nutrienst). So if you go VEGAN (not vegetarian), you WILL have to take a vitamin B12 supplement because without dairy you will not be getting it.

Well, octo--vegetarians can! I've been a vegetarian for three years and I eat milk and cheese, but I only eat organic, abuse free brands! What makes a cow produce milk, from what I've been told, is a hormone it gets from being pregnant and a lot of factories falsely impregnate their cows so that they can make milk.

Vegetarians don't eat meat
Lacto-Vegetarians don't eat meat, but eat dairy
Ovo-Vegetarians don't eat meat, but eat eggs
Lacto-Ovo Vegetarians don't eat meat, but eat dairy and egg

Personal experience, research.

Lacto-ovo-vegetarians choose to consume dairy products (like milk, cheese, and yogurt) but do not eat meat.
Lacto-vegetarians don't eat meat or eggs but do eat dairy.
Ovo-vegetarians don't eat meat or dairy but do eat eggs.
Vegans don't eat/use any animal products (meat, eggs, dairy, honey, etc.)
Some people believe that milking cows causes the cow no harm. Others think that humans are not meant to drink milk after infancy. And others believe that cows on dairy farms are treated cruelly as normally they would not produce milk after their calves had been weened.

There are several types of vegetarians:

Vegan - no animal products whatsoever
Lacto-vegetarian - dairy products and veggies
Ovo-lacto-vegetarian - eggs, dairy products and veggies
Ovo-vegetarians - eggs and veggies

It's hard work being a vegan because you have to balance the various foods to get complete proteins (note that about 10% of the diet should be complete protein), so most vegetarians belong to one of the other groups. Me? I can't deal with eggs unless they are hidden, by themselves they just taste so gross.

Vegetarians can eat cheese if it doesn't contain rennet.

BUT, the only reason the cows need to be ''relieved'' by being milked is because their babies have been taken away from them shortly after being born. The babies would drink their mothers milk if they were able to, and the cow wouldn't need humans to milk them.

Cows are not ''relieved.'' They are milked because they have been artificially inseminated. They are either pregnant AGAIN or have recently given birth. A normal cow's pregnancy is around 285 days or 9 months. A cow doesn't continue to lactate for a whole lifetime,.

Yes vegetarians eat milk, cheese and other diary products. Vegans avoid milk and other dairy products. Just listen to your own body and decide what is best for you. Good luck!

Vegetarians can eat cheese that is rennet free, but cows are not relieved when we milk them. I suggest you do some research on the dairy industry.

The vegetarian society,address on google, can give food advice and recipes.

Cheese that does not contain animal rennet is vegetarian.