Is dairy farming cruel to cows?
YES!
The majority of milk & cheese that is available in the store comes from 'factory farms' where the cows often are not exposed to sunlight, & live in cages that are so small they can't turn around.
They're hooked up to a milking machine (which some industry insiders who've done interviews with animal welfare watchdog groups call "the rape rack" because of the cows reaction) that forcefully sucks the milk out of their udders. Many many cows get an extremely painful infection from the constant milking called mastitis, which swells up their udders & can block their milk. Its been well-documented by the FDA that the pus from this infection often ends up in milk that is then sold in the store.
A dairy cow's baby is taken from her just a few hours after its born, and dairy cows have been filmed kicking walls and moaning with rage when this happens. The male calves almost always end up in veal farms, where their lives end after 3 months of being chained to the floor in the dark.
Once dairy cows are past their prime time for milking, they're slaughtered for beef.
WHAT ABOUT ORGANIC MILK (LIKE HORIZON MILK)?
No way. Horizon has been busted many times receiving milk from factory dairy-farms.
Also 'organic' does NOT mean 'free range' and even if your milk is labeled 'free range' there's no way to know what that means. The words 'free range' or 'cage free' are like 'all natural flavor' -- they mean nothing!
Also, the cows from so-called organic dairies still go to slaughter after they can't give milk anymore.
Studies from Harvard & Yale have found that drinking dairy does NOT prevent osteoperosis!!! In fact, the excess protein in dairy & meat may actually LEECH calcium from the bones! Yikes!
Remember that we are the only species on earth that drinks another species' breast milk. We're also the only species who drinks breast milk as an adult.
SOURCE: ANSWERS.COM
No comments:
Post a Comment