Not your mum, not your milk.

People ask me why I don't drink milk. But have you ever really stopped to think about what you're drinking? What kind of process did this milk go through to get to me from the dairy farm? Cows make milk for the same reason we do, to feed their young. Now think about it again. If were drinking that milk, what does the calf live off?

Well, Dairy cows in order to keep producing milk for the ever rising demand are repeatedly impregnated. As soon as that calf is born it is taken away from its mother. A boy calf is generally killed on its first day of life, if not it is raised on milk replacers to be killed and sold as veal. Female calf’s are feed milk replacers and raised to the same fate as their mothers.

Naturally a mother cow would only make as much milk to feed their calf but now, thanks to the dairy farming industry and hormones the cows over 5 times the natural amount of milk. The hormones used cause massive health effects for the cow and birth defects for the calf. A common hormone used is BHG which causes very painful mastitis, yet they do not stop using it.

The natural life spand of a cow is about twenty five years, but the stress of producing so much milk, having her children taken away from her, the hormones pumped into her and the health problems caused by such poor living conditions usually leaves them useless by four or five years old and they are sent to the slaughter house. Being vegetarian is all well and good but I don't think most people realize that eating dairy products is ultimately supporting the veal industry.

Now, I ask you. Why would I drink milk when there are plenty of healthier alternatives like hemp, oat, soy, rice or coconut milk?

He Is just so cute, look at that.