End The Dairy Industry

Like other female mammals, cows only lactate (produce milk) when they are pregnant or have a newborn to feed. In order for cows to be pregnant the Dairy Industry inseminates or impregnates cows, starting at the age of 12 months, over and over again in order to keep producing milk. It's rather a routine process. First the Dairy Industry jacks off bulls using a hand or help from an electro ejaculator which goes into the male anus until he ejaculates. That semen is then collected and inserted into the vagina of a female cow with a long tube usually while she is confined in what the Industry calls a "rape rack" and sometimes they will insert their fists into the anus to loosen the area.

When the calf is born, it is immediately taken from it's mother and locked in a crate because if the newborn stayed around it would drink the mothers milk -- and that's for us. Since a mother cow bonds with her young, this will sometimes leave her crying out for days. If the baby is a male, it's throat is slit and sold for veal. However if it is a girl, shes raised to be a milk machine like her mother. Dairy cows are continuously, and repeatedly, pregnant their whole lives to keep them lactating which leads to premature aging, exhaustion, and mastitis. Mastitis is a common condition in dairy cows leading to inflammation and sometimes infection, which causes puss and blood in the milk. The contaminated milk is filtered but not completely, because in Europe, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada up to 400,000 somatic cells are allowed in every milliliter of cows milk. The United States allows 750,000 somatic cells per milliliter, and in Brazil one million. Somatic cells are typically white blood cells -- the same substance that appears on the top of a zit. The more bacterial inflammation and infection, the higher the somatic cell count.

When a dairy cow is finally too physically and emotionally exhausted to continue on, she collapses. These cows are called 'downers' and are dragged out by whatever means to be killed and sold for beef. It is common in the industry (even on organic farms) for cows to "go down". After about 4-5 years of continuous milk production, if they aren't already getting ready to die they will slaughter them. Due to this they are killed no matter the circumstance, proving that the Dairy Industry is the Meat Industry.

Almost every cow that has/had been a Dairy cow will end up being killed for their meat, so if you're a vegetarian, you might want to think about this, because at least when you're being raised for meat you're just being raised for meat. Nonetheless when you're a dairy cow you are sexually exploited, emotionally, and physically exhausted until you can't take it anymore and then you are killed for your meat.

The natural life span for a cow that hasn't been completely exploited is up to 20-25 years. As far as the calcium and protein goes, study after study has shown that those consuming the highest quantities of dairy actually have the highest cases of bone fracture and osteoporosis. There are dozens of amazing plant based sources of calcium and protein, so we really do not need dairy milk. The industry has wormed their way into Education Systems, Nutritional Programs, and media to convince people to drink milk. When we are in school we all learn about how good milk is for you. It's not though! There is a panel of people who care about your health, who determine that children need milk, but it's because the Dairy Industry has paid a lot of money for us all to hear that message in school, on T.V., from billboards, and in magazines. Even your doctors who tell you to drink your milk don't have to take more than a few hours of a nutrition course.

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