How are dairy cows made to produce milk?
I’m vegetarian and always buy organic dairy products as I care for their welfare. But I do not understand or know much about the processes in volved to get the cow to produce milk e.g. are they made to have a calf to produce the milk and if so how often are they forced to do this etc.
So am I no better off buying organic then
- is the whole process unnatural and cruel?
They are put in calf, either by a bull or AI -artificial insemination . this is to avoid cross breeding
They then give birth to a calf and they will continue to produce as long as they are milked, whether it is a calf drinking it or they are milked by machines
Many cows milk all year round- will continue to produce milk for consumption by humans, there are also cows which are “dried off” ie they might milk for about 9-10 months of the year and then the farmer gives then an injectionso they are not made to produce milk.
Not all dairy cows produce milk to be homogenised and pasteurised for the milk you drink from a carton, other cows make milk for cheese and other dairy produce
obviously some cows are kept in high standards, though not all are, one would hope that they would receive good care and attention. Organic here would refer to the feed that the cows are given, (most cows just eat grass and meal)
Some vegans would argue that this process is unnatural and cruel, but this is why we have high standards and in fact it is unfair on the cows to just stop milking them suddenly
and there are strict standards involving the amount of bacteria acceptable in milk, the percentage of buttermilk etc etc
Bottom line: no, i would not stop drinking dairy products, it is not unfair to the cows, females are content creatures for the most part, visit a small dairy farm and you would find this out
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