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Firstly we need to understand that just like any other mammal on earth a mother cow lactates milk for her baby. Milk is nature’s food for a new born mammal since baby mammals lack teeth and cannot chew solid food. Once they grow teeth they start weaning from their mother. However humans are the only animals who continue consuming milk even after having grown teeth and that too by stealing the milk of another species.
Just like any other female mammal a cow lactates only when she is pregnant or after having given birth. Now think about it, how are female cows and buffaloes made pregnant in a dairy farm.
A cow or a buffalo is forcefully tied up against her will, a man shoves his fist into the cow’s anus, a steel rod containing bull semen is then inserted into her vagina and she is forcefully made pregnant.
Now think for a moment, to tie someone down and forcefully make someone pregnant against their will if this action was done to a woman in our society what would we call it?
Rape? A violation?
But do you know what we call it if done to a cow or buffalo? We call it as milk, ghee, curd, cheese, butter, lassi, ice cream, kulfi, chocolates and double cheese pizza with stuffed crust.
Once a child is born to the mother just like the egg industry the child’s fate depends on it’s gender. A male calf is considered useless to the dairy industry as bulls do not produce milk. So he is separated from his mother and sold off to the slaughter house so that his skin can be used to make leather shoes, belts, jackets and purses.
Please understand that leather is the skin of an animal who once wanted to live. In case the child born is a female calf she is separated from her mother and just a fraction of the milk her mother produces, just enough to keep her alive and the remaining milk is stolen and given to us. Once this female calf grows up and comes to age age will face the same fate as her mother and the cycle continues.
After being forcefully impregnated for many years and having had so many children stolen from her a mother cow is both physically and mentally distraught. Please understand that cows are very complex and intelligent animals. When their child is taken from them and they scream day and night for their child to be given back they feel the same pain any human mother would if they were forcibly held down at birth and had their child taken from them.
When a cow or buffalo is weak, spent, can no longer give birth and provide a profit for the dairy farmer she too is sold to the slaughterhouse. These cows are transported in the most horrifying ways, green chilli is rubbed into their eyes, glass pieces are poked into their anus and rods are used to beat her to force her to get onto the lorry that will carry her to her murder. These animals are not stupid, they know what’s going on which is why they need to be forced.
At the slaughter house a huge hammer is smashed to her head and a knife slits her throat. This is the life story for cows and buffaloes in the dairy industry and this is why we Vegans do not consume dairy products.
India is one of the leading exporters of beef in the world. In a country that claims to worship cows as sacred how could this be possible? In a country where NO one raises cows for the sole purpose of eating their flesh. It is because as I said earlier every cow or buffalo who is no longer profitable for milk is killed for beef. In our country the dairy industry, the beef industry and the leather industry work hand in hand. They are just different sides of the same coin.
Which is why I always tel to those who say they are vegetarian and drink milk and want to continue to be that way even after learning the truth, please eat beef. Because whether you consume dairy or eat beef or wear leather, to the poor cow or buffalo it makes 0 difference.
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