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Question

r some vegans against milk because they think it is harmful or because of the cruelty of the dairy industry and its affect on the environment or both? i really want to know so pls. no wise guys. thank you.

Answer 1

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there are many many reasons, here are a few:
- if it's not organic, it contains growth hormones, antibiotics, pesticides, etc..
- even if it's organic, it contains a natural hormone that makes a calf gain hundreds of pounds in a few weeks, do you want to gain that much weight?
- do you even see cats running after cows in the fields to get their milk?
- when I didn't know better I used to drink organic milk from free roaming cows, but then I realized that cows have to have babies to produce milk, since the milk is given to humans, what do you think happens to the calves? bucher shop!
- now for the environment, to feed the cows, so much water is wasted on corn fields, so much Co2 get in the atmosphere to gather the corn, so much of the cows crap and urine (millions of cows concentrated in extremely small areas) leak into our rivers and streams, and so much more....
So, it's all of the above: harmful to your health, harmful to the environment, and cruel to the animals... I loved milk, I always have to remind myself of all of this and it's not easy :-)

Answer 2

I'm vegan because the milk industry is cruel, but I think some people are vegan for their health, or more often both.

To give milk, cows have to give birth every year. Their calf is taken away from them at birth (farmers I have talked to told me how the little one and its mum will cry and fight during this separation). If the calf is male, it's sent to the slaughter house. If it's female, it will fallow in its mother's steps. The cow will also end up in a slaughter house once she's getting to old to give enough milk (around 5-10 years old, whereas a cow would normaly live 15-20 years). About 80% of beef actually comes from the milk industry. There is no milk without death, since the little one is killed so we can steel the mother's milk. That's why I'm vegan.


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Answer 3

Most are against drinking milk because of the whole process.

The commercial process requires the death of all bulls, excess cocalves and free martins to make it viable.

Cows are killed at 7 years old rather than a natural 20 years old.

AI makes them prone to pro-lapses, lameness, heart attack and general organ failures.

Artificial foods make cows produce excessive milk

Many veggies reduce or cut out dairy for te same reasons.

Besides the factual crualty, there is then the ethics about controlling and exploiting animals which forms part of the vegan and many veggies morals.

If you drink milk, you are responsible for the above situations. If you are happy with that, fair enough, but know its not a cruelty free food.

Answer 4

either one or both, depends on the person!

Some vegans leave milk alone simply because of health concerns (antibiotics and hormones that the cows are pumped full of) or the faact that we don't need milk and it isn't the healthiest for us (Despite what the dairy industry has spent bocoo dollars and years trying to tell us)

Some vegans are against milk because of the suffering that the cows endure and their calves (most baby bulls born to milk cows go for veal.. a VERY inhumane industry)..

Some are vegan because of both reasons!!

Answer 5

I currently refer to myself as a vegetarian but what I really am is a vegan in the making. For a while I was under the misguided impression that dairy cows were not treated as badly as cows used for meat, don't know why I thought that. I know now that they are treated very badly so I'll begin to eliminate dairy from my diet, I don't eat eggs as of a month ago, I fell into faulty thinking by the ovo vegetarian thing, but fowl are treated badly too. So, I, for one, won't be eating or drinking any dairy products in the near future because of the cruelty to animals issue.

Answer 6

Well, you wouldn't drink dogs' milk, cats' milk, rats' milk, camels' milk, giraffes' milk, gorillas' milk, etc., woudl you? So why drink cows' milk? Cows' milk is full of fat, designed to bring a 90-pound calf to a 2,000-pound cow in a few years. Think about what that might do to a human being!

The cows are kept constantly pregnant; a mammal only produces milk when she is pregnant and it's to nourish her baby once it is born. The cows are fed hormones to increase milk production, antibiotics to counteract infections caused by constant milking from milking machines, and other garbage. When the cow gives birth, her calf is taken away within hours. Female calves go to the dairy line, while male calves end up as veal.

And all animal industry is bad for the environment, not just the dairy industry.

Answer 7

well as a vegan i dont drink milk for various reasons. 1. because it IS harmful to the cows. it is painfull for them when their utters are being yanked 24-7 2. because even though you may not always see it, there is puss in the milk. of course they pastuize it at go through long process that try to remove all bacterias in it. but there has ALSO been long processes of testing that shows there is puss and scabs and what not in the milk. 3. it is choc full of diseases. i dont have the money or the time to sit in a hospital with cow hormones in my body.
im sure i could come up with a thousand more reasons, but i wouldnt touch milk with a 50 yard pole.

Answer 8

Both and so much more. The dairy industry is: bad for the environment (due to overgrowing crops for feed, waste run-off, etc); bad for health (full of saturated fat, hormones, and antibiotics); extremely cruel to the animals (barely moving all their lives, constantly impregnated, painful muscle atrophy, eventual slaughter, etc); and most of all, milk is soooo unnatural.

No adult of any species continues to nurse into adulthood, and they especially don't drink the milk of another species. It really is a strange concept that the multi-billion dollar industry had made seem normal, even righteous.

Answer 9

for both reason's for health and for how the cows are treated in the dairy farm / factory because it is real cruel
and milk also causes pimples and you to get obese