Does milk from cows really have pus & blood in it?(it doesn't make a difference to me,i just wanna know.)?

Question

my friend used to be vegan,n she thinks cow milk is disgusting cuz it supposedly has pus and blood in it,but she still eats every other dairy product.she just thinks straight milk is gross.

Answer 1

No, cows with mastitis do not get milked into dairy. They are taken out of production until they are cured.

I suppose you and your friend have no idea of how much a dairy cow costs.

No dairy producer would risk crippling a cow's milk production by leaving her untreated and continuing to milk her. That would be financially insane.

A cows teats are carefully rinsed clean and checked before she is hooked up to the milking machine.

Milk is tested and evidence of disease costs the herdsman his commercial quota. If that happens all of his milk becomes industrial product. It can not be used for food. It gets made into stuff like casein plastics instead, and the farmer goes bankrupt.

Answer 2

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Does milk from cows really have pus & blood in it?(it doesn't make a difference to me,i just wanna know.)?
my friend used to be vegan,n she thinks cow milk is disgusting cuz it supposedly has pus and blood in it,but she still eats every other dairy product.she just thinks straight milk is gross.

Answer 3

Milk Has Pus

Answer 4

Yes, but it doesn't matter because cow's milk is for calves and not people.

Answer 5

All dairy products have blood and pus in them. Does your friend think it disappears when the milk is coagulated into cheese or made into yogurt or ice cream? I would imagine cheese has even more blood and pus in it than a glass of milk.

Cows are kept constantly pregnant--after all, no mammal produces milk unless she has offspring. They are fed hormones to increase milk production, causing the udder to swell. The constant milking by machines, the hormones to increase production, etc., cause an infection called mastitis. So the cows are given antibiotics to counteract this. Still, pus and blood must leak from the udder as the cow is milked, and all the pasteurization in the world isn't going to remove that.

And mstrobert, while it's true that all mammals drink milk, they don't drink the milk of another species, and after infancy, they don't drink milk ever again. Only humans drink milk into adulthood. And only humans drink the milk of another species.

Answer 6

Dairy cows often have chronic mastitis, so yes, pus and blood get into the milk. Milk is pretty gross for a lot of reasons.

Answer 7

Frequently, but it's pretty well purged from pasteurized milk.

Honestly, if you're going to be THAT grossed out by something like THAT you should realized that every drink of water you've ever had was once the urine of something else.

Pleasant drinking...

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Answer 8

It does have pus and blood. Every food product must meet certain standards to be sold to the public. Many of these standards allow a certain amount of "gross" ingredients, from rodent hairs to insect parts, etc.

Answer 9

Irregardless of pus and blood, milk is still full of hormones, non-FDA approved injected drugs (20), pesticides, etc. Drinking milk is just plain gross, bizarre and bordering perverse. Mark my words, 100 years from now, people will look back and wonder how we ever did it.

Answer 10

It's pretty common, I believe, because if cows don't get milked often enough they can get an infection that gets puss and blood in the milk.

Answer 11

That's what my vegetarian friend told me, I wouldn't doubt it, but most companies try to clean it best they can.