It’s possible that you haven’t been made aware of the inherent cruelty and violence of the dairy industry. In his Oscar speech, you heard Joaquin Phoenix make a reference to stealing a baby from a cow, and her “unmistakable cries of anguish.” What’s that all about? Here is a comprehensive breakdown of the dairy industry....
Now that you know, will you please make compassionate choices that are consistent with who you really are?
Okay...maybe you really don’t know what happens to cows in the dairy
industry. It’s possible that you haven’t been made aware of the inherent
cruelty and violence of the dairy industry. In his Oscar speech, you heard
Joaquin Phoenix make a reference to stealing a baby from a cow, and her
“unmistakable cries of anguish.” What’s that all about? Here is a
comprehensive breakdown of the dairy industry...
HAVE YOU EVER MET A COW?
Cows are the gentle giants of the world. Cows are sweet and docile, and they
and have no instinct to harm, which is why they are easily exploited by
humans. They are very intelligent and emotional. They like to cuddle, and
they can form tight bonds with each other, humans, and other animals. Cows
are emotional beings, capable of love, affection, and a wide range of
emotions. They are sentient individuals with central nervous systems and
full subjective awareness. They seek attention and affection, bond with
other animals, care about their babies, feel emotions, can experience pain
and suffering, and want to live—just like you and your companion animals.
THE MISERABLE LIFE OF A DAIRY COW
The indisputable purpose of the dairy industry is stealing mammary
secretions from babies and selling that milk (and the cows themselves) for
profit. Yes, it’s all about MONEY. Like all mammals, cows must be pregnant
to produce milk. Milk isn’t created without a baby to drink it. But on dairy
farms, baby cows are prevented from drinking their mothers’ milk, so that it
can be sold to humans. Try to imagine what your life would be like if you
were a dairy cow being exploited for your bodily secretions, hooked up to
machines, forcibly impregnated over and over again while your babies are
taken away from you, imprisoned in misery until the day that you are sold to
the meat industry to be slaughtered because you stop producing milk at a
profitable rate. Yes, that is the dairy industry in a nutshell.
MOTHER COWS DO CRY IN ANGUISH
When a calf is taken away from his or her mother, she will scream and cry
for hours or even days because she wants to bond with her baby. Calves are
removed almost immediately from their mothers, which is devastating for her
and her baby. The separation occurs quickly because bonding would make
separation even more difficult later and could affect the mother’s milk
production, which is the dairy industry’s only concern—because it’s all
about money. The calves are denied their mothers’ milk and fed formula
instead so that the milk product isn’t “wasted.” Cows are not milk-making
machines. They are sentient beings with central nervous systems and
brains—just like you and your companion animals—which means that they have
full self-awareness and can experience emotions, and pain and suffering.
Please think about these cows and ask yourself if stealing and consuming
mammary secretions from babies who are slaughtered along with their
mothers...is who you really are.
WHAT HAPPENS TO THE BABIES?
The male calves obviously can’t produce milk, which is why the dairy farmers
kill them right away, or they shackle these babies inside crates all alone,
where they will spend a few months until they are slaughtered for veal. The
impulse to suckle is so strong in baby calves that they will desperately try
to suckle each other’s ears and faces when they are within reach, or even on
the fingers of the workers on the farms and in the slaughterhouses. The
female calves are destined to become tortured milking machines themselves,
which usually entails about four years of misery, during which they are
forcibly impregnated over again to keep the milk flowing. They give birth,
lose calves over and over again, and are hooked up to machines, until
eventually, their worn-out bodies collapse, and then they are ultimately
sent to slaughter. These are the simple facts of the dairy industry. Go
ahead: Ask a dairy farmer!
THE SPIKED NOSE RING: THE CRUELEST OF THE CRUEL
If dairy farmers tell you that the mothers and babies are not separated,
that’s because they are lying, or because they use the spiked nose ring, a
standard device used in the dairy industry (on small dairy farms too). The
reason they insert these cruel devices into a calf’s nose is so that the
spikes will poke the mother cow when a calf tries to suckle on her udders.
The mother rejects the calf because of the spikes. But WHY does the dairy
industry inflict this cruelty on babies and mothers? So that they can
(truthfully) say that they don’t separate babies from mothers! They aren’t
separated, but they can’t nurse or bond! The mammary secretions intended for
the babies are stolen for humans to consume, so that the dairy industry can
profit from animal exploitation and cruelty! Imagine the torture of babies
trying to nurse from their mothers, and being unable to do so because of
this device, all so that bovine mammary secretions (actual baby growth
formula) can be stolen for humans to consume.
WHAT IS MILK?
Milk is maternal lactating secretion produced by the mammary glands of
mammals who have given birth. Milk, quite simply, is a short-term nutrient
for newborns. All mammals produce milk when they have babies. The milk is
biologically designed for babies of specific species: For example, dog milk
is for baby dogs, rat milk is for baby rats, elephant milk is for baby
elephants, and human milk is for baby humans. Milk is baby growth formula,
and contains hormones, proteins, fats, minerals, etc. for an infant of a
particular species. Cow milk is perfectly designed to turn a 100-pound calf
into a 2,000-pound cow. Like all mothers’ milk, it is filled with hormones,
proteins, growth factors, fat, and cholesterol. Additionally, cow milk
contains millions of pus cells, blood, antibiotics, steroids, bacteria,
pathogens, and acidic proteins (which leech minerals and calcium from human
bones). Over 80% of the protein in cow milk is casein, which is also used as
an ingredient in some paints, glues, and, oh yes...cheese.
WHY DO HUMANS CONSUME COW MILK AND DAIRY PRODUCTS?
Because they’ve been told that they must! Dairy farmers, the animal
agriculture industry, the mainstream media, the government, and even the
healthcare industry have successfully used propaganda to convince most
humans that stealing and consuming bovine mammary secretions is healthy,
necessary, natural, and completely normal behavior—because there is MONEY to
be made by exploiting and torturing cows. Yes, it’s all about money. Would
you drink cat milk? Giraffe milk? Orangutan milk? That’s crazy, right?!
Would you drink human breast milk if a pregnant woman squeezed you a glass?
Would you eat cheese or ice cream made from human breast milk? Gross,
right?! But think about that: You won’t consume the milk of your own
species, but you think it’s totally normal to consume bovine bodily fluids
as an adult? Drinking the mammary secretions of another species is not
natural or normal. Mammary secretions are intended for the babies of
specific animals. Perhaps you believe that this behavior is normal because
you’ve been told that it is normal since you were a child? Why would an
intelligent, rational human adult consume bovine mammary secretions, paying
the dairy industry to exploit, torture, and ultimately slaughter cows?
YOU’RE BREASTFEEDING FROM A COW BECAUSE YOU’VE BEEN DUPED BY CORPORATE
PROPAGANDA?
Yes! Think about it. Isn’t it fundamentally gross and crazy to consume the
mammary secretions of another species, especially as an adult? And from a
cow rather than another human? Most of us were brainwashed by corporate
propaganda. It’s really all about exploiting defenseless animals for money.
The dairy industry floods our schools with propaganda, saturates the media
with deceptive ads, and pays off politicians with campaign contributions
(which results in taxpayer subsidies and very little oversight of what
happens to these animals). Aren’t you irritated that you’ve been duped all
of these years by corporate propaganda to engage in a behavior as bizarre as
consuming another species’ mammary secretions—bovine growth formula stolen
from baby cows? You are literally consuming bodily secretions intended for a
baby, and you think that is completely normal and natural?!
PLEASE MAKE COMPASSIONATE CHOICES
Yes, of course consuming dairy is your choice. But why would you choose
suffering and violence when you can choose peace and compassion? Are the
fleeting taste sensations of bovine bodily secretions really that important
to you, when there are so many nutritious and delicious alternatives that
don’t come from the suffering and slaughter of emotional beings? Please
think about your food choices and ask yourself if you are being ethical and
compassionate, and if causing pain and suffering and slaughter for nothing
more than momentary, trivial taste pleasure...is who you really are. There
is no biological requirement for humans to consume animals or their bodily
secretions. Plant-based alternatives are everywhere now, and they are
healthy and delicious! It just takes a little extra time to look for
non-dairy ice cream, beverages, yogurt, cheese, butter, etc.
WHO YOU REALLY ARE
Please think about what you support when you purchase anything with cow milk
in it, and start making ethical and compassionate and rational choices! Why
would you want to fund an industry that harms and kills animals for mammary
secretions that aren’t for you and that you don’t need, especially when
there is an abundance of alternative products that taste the same and are
healthier for you?! The choice to continue supporting the dairy industry is
a conscious decision to harm, exploit, and kill others for pleasure and
self-indulgence—simply because you like the way something tastes. Is that
who you really are? A measure of human morality is how we treat the innocent
and helpless. All sentient beings have the right to experience the nurturing
love of their mothers, and to live free from exploitation, harm, and
slaughter by humans—because unlike other animals, humans can behave morally,
think rationally, and live happy and healthy lives without consuming animals
or their bodily secretions. Going vegan is simply about choosing peace and
compassion, instead of suffering and violence.
So...if you didn’t understand why Joaquin Phoenix mentioned cows in his
Oscar speech...now you do. Now that you know, will you please make
compassionate choices that are consistent with who you really are?
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