Whats wrong with drinking milk?!
Whats wrong with drinking milk?
Besides:
Artificial incemination every year
Hormone enriched feed
Bribe/feed caged carousels
killing bulls, excess calves and free martins at 1 week old
excess feeding to produce 60 lites of milk per day
intensive rearing means low husbandry checks
removing calves from mothers after colostrum feed
killing the cow at 7 years old
This question is inspired by this V&V answer:
"I don't understand vegan, b/c it doesn't hurt the cow, or starve her calves, to take milk....it's what they were designed for...I'm pretty sure if you don't milk a milking cow, they'll get sick and die anyway."
Drink milk, help yourself, but please be honest about the effect it has on cows.
I live on a farm and see dairy every week and can backup every bullet point i mentioned above so, feel free to correct me, but please do so only from a position of Knowledge, not hear-say nor milk marketing propaganda
5 hours ago
Thanks for those that backed me up. I can see that it could be read as i run a dairy farm. I have an arable farm, surrounded by dairy and beef farms. In most walks of life people might have stopped to think, or asked.
But not Yahoo, this is the place where wild assumptions are normal !
Answers:
These answers are getting a bit mean.
1. Michael H has chickens.
2. He lives next to the cow farms.
3. The cow farms he lives next to would be the "higher quality" ones, and not the even worse tortures of factory farms.
4. Even "organic" companies use most of these means. You can't get milk without making the cow get pregnant. You are not going to give the mommy cow's milk to the baby because you will soon be killing the baby for veal, and you cannot make a profit by letting babies drink your product.
"Organic" milk farms do not contain happy, free-roaming cows who are enjoying life.
"At a Horizon dairy farm in central Idaho, the cows don't look that happy. Four thousand cows live in a stark landscape of sagebrush fields, long silver barns and open-air sheds. Jammed in crowded pens atop the hardpan of the Idaho desert"
~Organic Consumers
:)
Organic means the cows are not given antibiotics (even when sick); it does not mean the animals are treated well by any stretch.