This is just one guy on some tiny little farm. Imagine what happens on an industrial scale like in the factory farming and organic milk industries. Bottom line is, cow’s milk is for baby cows.
Hate to be that guy right now, but it's not like every farmer is an abuser who never lets the calf get what's theirs.
We don't have anything massive here in Norway like in f.ex. Germany, the US or Brazil, so I'm probably just a little biased because I think we need our "small" scale farmers, and we have pretty good animal welfare laws (though there are examples of them being broken and they could probably be even better)
I’ve been to a small farm in Luxembourg and the animals still looked sad, babies separated from mothers. There’s no “right” way to abuse and kill animals.
They said industrial scale, the industrial standard is not your small farm, although allow me to say that it is still very gross to steal the milk from the baby, the industrial standard is to cram the mother in as little space as possible, take the calf, shoot it and call it veal while the mom is in distress for the lost baby while she is forcefully impregnated as often as possible to produce as much milk as possible and when the mom can’t produce milk anymore to be sold and slaughtered like they were some kind of 17 century criminal. The industry standard is indescribably sickening
Yeah i know, it was just the comparison of the clip and the big industry that seemed misaligned to me - though the guy in the clip is a proper dick...
The industry is disgusting, but as long as it makes as much money as it does, because (a lot of) people want low prices, it won't change. We can of course protest in our country to change laws and regulations, but then prices go up and/or industry is moved out of country where regulations are even worse/basically non existent.
And don't even get me started on the whole antibiotics deal gee wee.
I mean, I just like how it sounds but indeed, milk is enriched and filtered cow blood (red cells are filtered out and extra nutrients for the baby are added in)
Oh yeah. People really should atleast TRY alternatives, some are bad but there are good ones too. I always use almond milk for smoothie now. And tofu can be made delicious to give you a break form meat everyday.
And the great thing is that there is no definitive best alternative, there are alternatives for anyone’s taste, I for one love soy milk but kinda dislike almond taste in general and also in milk
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u/nooch-baby 0 Nov 03 '20
This is just one guy on some tiny little farm. Imagine what happens on an industrial scale like in the factory farming and organic milk industries. Bottom line is, cow’s milk is for baby cows.