Why don't vegans or vegetarians eat or drink anything dairy?!
Why don't vegans or vegetarians eat or drink anything dairy?
Its not hurting the animal to get their milk..so why dont they eat or drink any dairy products such as milk?
Im not criticizing Im just curious:)
Answers:
Where did you hear that it doesn't hurt the animal to force it to give milk?
I'm not a vegan or vegetarian, and I love milk. However, I am under no illusion as to how milk is obtained.
Cows, which generate milk solely to feed their calves and then stop lactating (just like humans and any other mammals) are kept in a constant state of milk production and 'milked' by machines or people for up to a year after the calf has grown up. Then, because the quality of the milk goes down so far after they give birth, the cow is given hormones to encourage more milk production and even bred again to make more calves in order to keep up the supply and quantity of milk.
I don't know if it 'hurts' or not, but it certainly isn't among the things that would be on my schedule if I were a cow.
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a vegetarian will a vegan will not. A Vegan will not consume anything they know comes from an animal.
they dont take anything from animals. period (especially vegans)
I don't know thats a very good question. If you meet one ask them. But vegetarians have dairy right? they just don't have meat
Probably because it's a by product of the animal itself.
Its just vegans. Vegetarians do eat animal products such as dairy and honey.
as for vegans- *shrug* I think its taking things a little too far.
Vegetarians do drink dairy. But vegans don't because they think it is wrong to profit off of animals and milk comes from cows.
I'm pretty sure vegetarians DO...
But it's vegans that don't consume any animal products at all.
I'm an omnivore myself :)
Sometimes it's a way of life. The philosophy that they don't consume any products that come from an animal, period. Also, if you think about it, humans are the ONLY species that drink another species milk (like cows, goats, etc.). You will never find cows drinking goat milk or vice-versa. Interesting thing to note. I guess if anything, they want to stick with what's natural and eating cheese/drinking milk is unnatural.
because it is still an animal byproduct. What I dont get is why vegan eat certian vegetables that have been fertilized with animal byproducts.
Vegetarians just don't eat meat. They can still have dairy.
Vegans are the ones who won't eat eggs or drink milk, etc.
A reason? There's not one. Just that a lot of people have misconceptions as to what actually hurts animals. If a cow isn't milked or a chicken didn't lay eggs, THAT would hurt them. You're getting the stuff from them anyway, it's wasteful NOT to use them. I think that if someone wants to be a vegetarian because they think that it's wrong to eat animals (I have plenty to say on that, but I don't think you asked that) then that's one thing, because obviously it does hurt the animal (that just depends on if you see it as wrong or not).
Actually only vegans abstain from eating dairy. Vegetarians just don't eat meat. Many vegans do it because they think the process is unnatural -the cows are impregnated more often than they should be and aren't treated well in the process of getting the milk, etc. Also, some people don't think that it's healthy to drink dairy. We are the only mammals that continue drinking milk after infancy, and it's real purpose is to help infants become big and fat. The dairy ads that claim milk is a healthy part of a diet to lose weight are based on tests that compared it with drinking sugary soda. It depends on the person, but those are some reasons.
It does hurt the animal to get the milk.
You should maybe watch some videos or read some articles about what goes on in the dairy industry.
Here are some links:
http://www.torturedcows.com/dairy/23/mil...
http://www.factoryfarming.com/dairy.htm...
http://www.milksucks.com/
You should check out those links. It does hurt the animals, because its not just a small family milking thier pet cow into a bucket. It dosen't work like that. There are huge dairy farms, and these cows are repeatedly impregnated so that they will produce milk, this is not natural. They are hooked up to these milking machines that create painful infections.
Also when the cow is impregnated naturally it makes milk for its calf, on these farms it's baby is taken away from it pretty much as soon as it is born. So imagine being imprisoned and forced to have babies, only for them to be ripped away from you as soon as they are born. And I'm not even going to go into the suffering that occurs from the veal industry, as a result of the dairy industry. But first link and the second explains it pretty well(the veal industry).
maybe because they aren't aware that they need calcium in their bones.
Vegetarians do drink milk and consume dairy products. A vegan does not eat meat, and consumes no diary products either.
It does, commercial milk industry takes the calves away from the mommy cow at a young age. Do people take you away from your mama? And it is evident that cows love their babies because they can be heard screaming and mooing sadly over the loss of their babies. And the babies that are taken away are often used for the most evil meat of all, veal. Little tortured baby cows. Commercial milk supports veal.
Did you know that humans are the only species to drink the milk of another animal? How disgusting!!!!
Diary products are also the worst possible way to get calcium. In fact, your body has to leach calcium from your bones in order to excrete the by-products of consuming animal products, a process that contributes to osteoporosis and kidney disease at the same time. There are far better dietary ways to get your calcium. and long-term vegans, in fact, need less calcium than do omnivores or lacto-vegetarians.
Cow's milk is intended for calves.