Even if you don’t eat meat, you might think drinking or
using milk is part of a vegetarian diet. We all have images of farmers pumping
milk by hand, and it seems a natural part of life and a benign use of the cow.
But we don’t really think much about it at all, do we?
Do you know how a cow raised for producing milk lives its
life? Like most animals used for mass consumption, a milk cow lives in cramped
and often filthy conditions. It is fed hormones to stimulate its reproductive
processes, because that’s what a mother’s milk is for – to feed its baby. As
soon as a calf is born though, it’s taken from its mother. A male calf often
goes to a terrible fate to be raised for veal; a female calf often has the same
fate as its mother.
Often the cows mourn for their babies. They’ll be seen
bellowing for them and looking for them. Mass producing milk for human
consumption has disrupted the natural order of things.
The cows are fed hormones to continue to stimulate milk
production. The electric pumps are painful to the cow’s udders. With the
hormone stimulation, cows are forced to produce 10 times more milk than they
would ordinarily.
When their milk-producing days are over, the cows are then
slaughtered for ground beef. It also takes enormous natural resources to feed
and water all these cows. The water table is being depleted to sustain this
enormous industry. And the waste produced by all these large animals is having
a detrimental effect on the environment.
We really don’t need to consume milk after a certain age.
Why would we continue to support this industry that’s built on animal
suffering? To really top it off, humans are not meant to drink cow milk. Calf’s are meant to drink cow milk and we
humans are meant to drink human milk.
Our bodies were not designed to digest the proteins in cow milk – so why
bother? Especially when you can get more
calcium from a green, leafy vegetable?
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