Is drinking milk considered animal cruelty?!
Is drinking milk considered animal cruelty?
Just wondering if drinking milk is cruel.
Answers:
no
the cow produces more milk than its calf can drink
we're actually doing her a favor
Well, I'm sure there are people who think it's cruel due the fact that many cows are specifically raised for commercial milk. I, personally, don't think it's cruel if you choose a company that has humane practices. I drink organic milk and like Organic Valley because they have great ethic toward animals and the environment.
Why should it be cruel? The cow was bred and had a calf and the milk we bottle is extra milk. Milk is good for you. The cow is well treated. The male calves do get sold as veal, but the female are raised to make more milk.
It depends on how the animals are treated. Sometimes they are treated with cruelty, but it's not considered animal cruelty to the authorities who define such things.
No, the cows like to be milked - or they explode!
not necessarily, but it is weird! I mean, are you a baby cow?? Would you drink the 'breast' milk of a nursing human? No? But you would of a cow?? That's weird!
It depends. Some people think that taking their milk is fine and/or doing it a favor since it produces so much milk, some have to be guaranteed that the milk is taken from the cow as gently as possiblem and others won't take the milk period.
It all depends on who you talk to.
No, but if your Vegan it's a bi product of animal so you can't drink it
well, only if you kill the cow execution style after you get your milk....
NOPE U DONT HIRT THE COW WHEN U GET THE MILK OUT OF HER! BABY COW DRINK THE COW MILK ALL THE TIME!
The soy milk is what I drink and not a vegetarian. But they can have as high as 25% blood in the milk and they pump them full of harmones. They bleach the milk to keep it white.
So I decided that I would try soy milk and it tastes pretty good.
Well, it depends. If the factory that processes the milk hurts the cows, an ex. is they don't get to room freely in pastures, then yes it is. If it is organic milk, where they don't stick horomones into the cows it's not abuse.
nopers. its not hurting the cow!
not if its organic. they pumped the cows with hormones and take away their babies when the babies are really young to be made into nasty veal. poor cows.
No, because it is a natural thing. If cows are fed special stuff to produce certain types of milk, yes it is animal cruelty. But usually drinking milk is not cruel.
Yes. Drinking milk is not only cruel, its also really gross. Do you know what is in milk?
Anyone who tells you that cows produce lots of milk, enough for you and the calf don't realize that these cows are bred to make 4 times the amount of milk that a normal cow would, and even more if they are given hormones. 98% of dairy farms are crule farms that only care about one thing... Money! I live out in the county in a very concentrated dairy area, and what I see makes me ill.
Male calves―“byproducts” of the dairy industry―are generally taken from their mothers when they are less than 1 day old.10 The calves are then put into dark, tiny crates, where they are kept almost completely immobilized so that their flesh stays tender. The calves are fed a liquid diet that is low in iron and has little nutritive value in order to make their flesh white. This heinous treatment makes the calves ill, and they frequently suffer from anemia, diarrhea, and pneumonia. Frightened, sick, and alone, these calves are killed after only a few months of life. “Veal” is the flesh of a tortured, sick baby cow, and a byproduct of the milk industry. When kepped this way it keeps their meat tender. The female calves are not much better off, but they usualy have enough room to exercise and play with the other females calves.
The 9 million cows living on dairy farms in the United States spend most of their lives in large sheds or on feces-caked mud lots, where disease is rampant.3 Cows raised for their milk are repeatedly impregnated. Their babies are taken away so that humans can drink the milk intended for the calves. When their exhausted bodies can no longer provide enough milk, they are sent to slaughter and ground up for hamburgers.
Cows produce milk for the same reason that humans do: to nourish their babies. In order to force the animals to continue giving milk, factory farmers impregnate them using artificial insemination every year. Calves are generally taken from their mothers within a day of being born―males are destined for veal crates, and females are sentenced to the same fate as their mothers.
Mother cows on dairy farms can often be seen searching and calling for their calves long after they have been separated. Author Oliver Sacks, M.D., wrote of a visit that he and cattle expert Dr. Temple Grandin made to a dairy farm and of the great tumult of bellowing that they heard when they arrived: “‘They must have separated the calves from the cows this morning,’ Temple said, and, indeed, this was what had happened. We saw one cow outside the stockade, roaming, looking for her calf, and bellowing. ‘That’s not a happy cow,’ Temple said. ‘That’s one sad, unhappy, upset cow. She wants her baby. Bellowing for it, hunting for it. She’ll forget for a while, then start again. It’s like grieving, mourning―not much written about it. People don’t like to allow them thoughts or feelings.’”4
After their calves are taken from them, mother cows are hooked up, several times a day, to machines that take the milk intended for their babies. Using genetic manipulation, powerful hormones, and intensive milking, factory farmers force cows to produce about 10 times as much milk as they naturally would.5 Animals are pumped full of bovine growth hormone (BGH), which contributes to painful inflammation of the udder known as “mastitis.” (BGH is used throughout the U.S., but has been banned in Europe and Canada because of concerns over human health and animal welfare.)6 According to the industry’s own figures, between 30 and 50 percent of dairy cows suffer from mastitis, an extremely painful condition.7
A cow’s natural lifespan is 25 years, but cows used by the dairy industry are killed after only four or five years.8 An industry study reports that by the time they are killed, nearly 40 percent of dairy cows are lame because of the filth, intensive confinement, and the strain of constantly being pregnant and giving milk.9 Dairy cows are turned into soup, companion animal food, or low-grade hamburger meat because their bodies too “spent” to be used for anything else.
All adult and baby cows, whether raised for their flesh or their milk, are eventually shipped to a slaughterhouse and killed.
But don't get me wrong, 2% of dairy farms are humane and hormone free. But I still strongly feel that cows milk belongs to calves, not humans. Its funny humans are the only animal that feed from the milk of another species.
Here are some more facts on milk you might want to know
The dairy industry spends hundreds of millions of dollars every year to convince people to drink gallons of milk and stuff themselves with cheese, while responsible health officials warn that dairy products have four major drawbacks. Milk and cheese (1) are loaded with fat and cholesterol; (2) are frequently contaminated with pesticides, dioxins, and drugs; (3) are linked to obesity, diabetes, heart disease, and certain cancers, including prostate cancer and breast cancer; and (4) may even cause osteoporosis―the very disease that the dairy industry loves to use as a selling point in its ads―because the excess protein in dairy products leaches calcium from the bones.
Cow’s milk is suited to the nutritional needs of calves, animals who, unlike you or your child, have four stomachs and gain hundreds of pounds in a matter of months, sometimes weighing more than 1,000 pounds before their second birthday. Cow’s milk contains about three times as much protein as human milk (we eat too much protein, not too little, in this country, and that results in kidney stress). Despite the clever advertising of the dairy industry, it is about as far from “natural” as you can get for humans to drink cow’s milk. No other species drinks milk beyond infancy, and no other species drinks the milk of another species. After 2 years of age, most people begin to produce less lactase, the enzyme that helps with the digestion of milk. This reduction can lead to lactose intolerance―the inability to digest lactose―and, in turn, tummy trouble, sinus problems, and “colic.”
Have a merry Christams everyone!
Absolutely! Most people are uneducated about the dairy industry, that's why most people here have answered "no" to your question. THEY DON'T KNOW THE CRUELTIES.
barebackrider_19 has it right on the money. The dairy industry is cruel, a hell for cows, and if you consume dairy, any dairy (even ice cream, even whipped cream), then you are supporting the veal industry.
Milk is also disgusting. Think about it... animals drink
Got pus? Milk is contaminated with pus, did you know that? Yes, every glass of milk has pus in it. Check it out:
http://www.milksucks.com/pus.asp...
Go here to see a video about the milk industry. After that,
http://www.milkgonewild.com/
I am a new vegetarian and was going to keep eating eggs and drinking milk, although I'm not too crazy about eggs. But I have done some research and I have decided to give soy milk a chance cuz I read a few places about what happens to dairy cows and it is as bad as the slaughterhouse cows! And milk DOES have gross stuff in it like pus and blood from the cow's raw, sore, often infected udders. GROSS! I am so grossed out, I didn't know it'd be so easy to say NO to milk!!