“Cows Need To Be Milked”
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“Cows need to be milked or else they would die.”
No, actually, cows do not need to be milked. After they give birth to their calves, cows’ calves drink their milk.
Oh, wait, we’re talking about the dairy industry. So, no, the calves are taken away from their mothers, given nutritionally inadequate milk replacements and then slaughtered and eaten as “veal.”
The cows would naturally dry up without their calves, but instead of letting Mother Nature follow her course, humans step in and assert domination. Humans attach milk machines to the cows and steal their milk for human consumption, even though humans have access to better sources of calcium than dairy, such as fortified breakfast cereals, fortified soy milk, spinach, tofu, many nuts and seeds, and dark leafy vegetables.
Moreover, humans have better sources for vitamin D, too, because vitamin D isn’t naturally found in cow’s milk. The vitamin D in cow’s milk is added later, just like it’s been added to breakfast cereals and some soy milks. But the best source of vitamin D is sunlight.
Humans continue to torture cows and kill calves for dairy even though the majority of humans cannot digest cow’s milk after age two because naturally, humans should be weaned from human breast milk and no longer need lactase, the enzyme required to digest lactose.
Humans then slaughter these dairy cows at a fraction of their life spans, often in a cruel manner. This sub-par beef from spent dairy cows is then sold to public schools and fed to American children.
For more on cow’s milk, the diary industry, calcium, vitamin D, and why veganism is a better choice than dairy, check these out:
- Shedding Light on the Treatment of Dairy Cows
- VRG “Calcium in the Vegan Diet”
- Plant-Based Calcium: Sources and Absorbability
- The China Study
- Common Responses to Vegetarianism podcast
- Milk Sucks
- Milk is a natural food, and cows naturally give milk, so what’s wrong with drinking it? podcast
- Go Dairy Free
- Vegan Society: Calcium
- Bones, Vitamin D, and Calcium
I totally agree. I remember reading a book about this. It’s true but everyone has it in their mind from childhood “drink your milk to get strong bones” It’s a huge lie.
I was always vegetarian. But after reading this article, I have decided to be vegan. Its so tough you know, my parents don,t understand, and the entire society calls me a fusspot because I don’t eat animal products. They just can’t understand that non-vegetarianism is plain cruelty. Muggle-voldemorts like KFC make it seem as if the chickens are happy to die. In India its really tough to find vegan products. I just hope to live a blameless life and so must others. Great article, by the way.
Cows need to be milked otherwise their utters grow, filled with milk. And at some point they will be big enough to touch the ground and pick up bacteria slowly killing the cow. Baby cows are going to be fed when they’re not babies anymore so at some point the cow wont be giving its milk to anyone, thats when this happens.
I’m sorry, bethany, but that’s not true. Cows, like all other mammals, provide milk for their babies and that’s all. They don’t have “excess” milk. When their babies grow older and are weaned then they stop producing milk. Ask your mom about it
why would any animal need to produce milk for another creature? this is just not natural part of evolution
wow i am so saddened by this article. the world needs more people who put “humane” back into “human” :/