Does the Dairy industry cause suffering?
Ethical impacts of intensive dairy farming: Drinking milk does contruibute to unnessary death and suffering. Just like humans cows only lactate a few months after birth. For cows to produce a constant supply of milk they must be continually artificially ensiminated and give birth. Their babies are taken away from them soon after they are born. If they are male they will be trapped in veal crates, fed an anemic diet and confined in darkness and eventually killed. If they are female they will go on to also be dairy cows (or more correctly milk machines). This seperation causes distress to both mother and calf. Drinking milk supports the veal industry. Cows are also pumped with hormones and antibiotics to increase milk production. This often leads to mastitius, a painful infection of the udders. Constant milk production leaches calcium from cow’s bones leaving them eventually lame or crippled. If you really can’t live without dairy try buying from certified free range dairy farmers. But e
