VeganRabbit.com
February 2013
If you are a feminist like I am, dairy should really hit home for you. This is because dairy is a business that profits off of the exploitation of the female reproductive system. The entire life of a dairy cow is a never-ending nightmarish cycle of depression, torture and rape. Yes, rape.
Most people believe that dairy isn’t a bad thing because an animal doesn’t have to die in order for you to get it. But the truth is that an animal DOES have to die – in fact, MANY animals have to die – for the sake of that slice of cheese on your sandwich, or that milk in your cereal. If you really care about animal rights, the first things you must eliminate from your diet are eggs and dairy.
If you are a feminist like I am, dairy should really hit home for you. This
is because dairy is a business that profits off of the exploitation of the
female reproductive system. The entire life of a dairy cow is a never-ending
nightmarish cycle of depression, torture and rape. Yes, rape. Many people
believe that cows just naturally produce milk and that their udders would
explode if we didn’t milk them. To these uninformed people we are actually
doing dairy cows a favor by milking them. This however, couldn’t be farther
from the truth.
Cows produce milk for the same reasons humans produce milk. They are mammals
like us, and produce milk for the sole purpose of feeding and nourishing
their young. Cows must give birth in order to produce milk. But in order to
give birth a cow must first be pregnant, and in order for a cow to become
pregnant, she must be impregnated. This is called by the dairy industry:
“artificial insemination“.
Artificial insemination is done by restraining the female cow in what is
known as a “rape rack”. A rape rack is a torture device created by a
unappologetic vivisector named Harry Harlow (largely famous for his other
disturbing creation: The Pit of Despair). This disgusting excuse for a man
created this device to force male and female monkeys who had been kept in
isolation their entire lives (by him) to have intercourse. He wanted to see
how these poor, tortured monkeys would raise their young. The tortures he
forced them to endure for their entire lives affected their social abilities
to such an extent that when the female monkeys became mothers, they actually
killed and sometimes even ate their own offspring.
This same device — this “rape rack” – is what is used today to restrain
female cows for artificial insemination. Once a female is restrained so that
she will not pose a danger to the person impregnating her (by possibly
trying to avoid being raped), they insert their arm far down her rectum to
position her uterus correctly and then insert a metal instrument into her
vagina. If this was done to a human it would be called “rape”, but because
it is done to a cow it is called “artificial insemination”.
I don’t care what species of animal you are, if someone must restrain you to
forcibly insert an object into your vagina and rectum that you don’t want
there — that is RAPE. As far as I’m concerned there is absolutely no other
word for it.
Cows do not like to be milked. Suckling their young is a much different
sensation than being pumped dry by a machine.
When a dairy cow gives birth she has no time to bond with her child. Her
child is taken away from her, never to be seen by her again. This causes an
unimaginable amount of stress for both the mother cow and the baby calf.
This is the horrifying truth about the dairy industry. This is the truth
they don’t want you to know about. By consuming dairy products you are
supporting the production of veal.
Veal is a type of meat known for its tenderness and delicate flavor. Veal
comes from the meat of cows, but not just any cows – it comes from baby
calves. Half of all calves born are male and because they do not have the
ability to give milk, they are seen by the dairy industry as a liability.
But the dairy and meat industries have partnered up to make sure that they
both will still be able to make a profit off the lives and deaths of these
poor baby cows. They sell the calves meat as “veal” to people who usually
buy it at least partially because it is seen as a status symbol and because
of how tender the baby animal’s meat is. To get the meat so tender, it
wouldn’t be enough to just kill a baby calf – first they have to weaken
their bodies.
When a baby calf is taken from his mother (the dairy cow), he is then
chained in a tiny metal, plastic, or wooden crate in a way that makes it
impossible for him to turn around, walk, stand, or lay down comfortably.
This is done so that he will not have developed muscles. He is kept in this
crate, often forced to lay in his own waste. Veal calves are fed a liquid
diet of a synthetic formula boosted with chemicals to ward off any disease
that thrives in the disgusting conditions the calves are kept in.
Who drinks the milk that should be feeding these baby cows? HUMANS DO.
Veal calves are only a few months old when they are slaughtered for their
emaciated, white tender flesh. Throughout the entirety of their short lives
they will never know what it feels like to be loved, cared for and nurtured.
This is where your money goes every time you buy a dairy product, whether
it’s milk, cheese, butter, or any other product made with dairy.
Many other boy calves will be packed onto a feedlot and forced to eat,
sleep, and live their lives in their own excrement until they are
slaughtered for beef. The baby female cows are sentenced to a life of rape,
torture, confinement, and physical and psychological and emotional stress,
just as their mothers were. Cows are also slaughtered for an enzyme in their
stomachs called rennet which is used to make cheese.
Once dairy cow’s bodies are all used up and their productivity declines,
they are shipped off to slaughter and are ground up to become the meat in
your burger – which usually has a nice big slice of cheese melting right on
top of it.
Chew on this: milk from a cow (meant to give life and sustenance to baby
calves) is melting on top of the ground up dead bodies of hundreds of
different cows that spent their life producing the milk that it took to make
that cheese. How wrong is that?
Every year, the California Milk Advisory Board spends $37 million promoting
the Happy Cows Campaign. They want you to think that the milk you are
drinking and the cheese you are eating comes from happy cows that live on
big green rolling hills and are actually happy to give us their milk.
The truth is that no cow would want to GIVE us her milk. We have to TAKE it
from her. We have to TAKE it from her child. We take so many things from
these poor animals: their milk, their freedom, their children, their
dignity. Why? Because throughout our lives we have been conditioned by
advertisements, rigged lab tests, and bought out scientists who promote
dairy products as being a health food, part of a balanced diet, and “doing a
body good”. Here are the REAL facts about what dairy does to the human body.
Can you think of a single other animal that still drinks milk after it has
grown into an adult? It would be laughable if an adult human still
breast-fed from his or her mother, so why is it considered normal to still
be drinking animal’s milk into adulthood? It would seem that in order for
adults to drink milk and have it still viewed as “normal” they must drink
the milk of an entirely different species of animal. And not just any animal
would do, after all, how many people are lining up to drink beaver milk or
cat milk? For an adult to drink milk and not be ridiculed they must drink
milk from a socially “approved” animal such as a goat or sheep, but most
often from a cow.
There is no other species on the face of this planet that drinks
milk past infancy from an animal of a different species than their own.
There have been instances where an abandoned puppy is found by a goat or
some other mammal who takes the responsibility of raising and suckling her
adopted puppy child, but these rare instances only occur out of necessity.
As humans we have no such need for milk. In fact, most people are actually
lactose intolerant to some degree. Upon drinking milk humans can feel
anything from slight intestinal discomfort to mild gas to full blown
diarrhea. It is actually normal to be lactose intolerant because our bodies
are not designed to digest milk past a certain age — and certainly not from
an animal of another species. The only reason why some people are not
lactose intolerant is because somewhere along the line in history they
developed a mutation that allowed them to drink milk without feeling
discomfort — most likely for them to better survive in the winter months
when food was more scarce. We are accustomed to ignoring this discomfort
because we are not taught to look for it, or associate the pain we feel with
something touted as being good for us.
But you mustn’t forget who is telling us this: the dairy
industry!
Milk steals calcium from our bones. Yes, milk has plenty of calcium — but
it’s not the right kind of calcium. You see, milk is put through processes
to make it more uniform and attractive in appearance to us humans, as well
as making it less likely to be a breeding ground for harmful bacteria.
Processes like bleaching, homogenizing and pasteurizing. These processes
destroy an enzyme called phosphatase. Phosphatase is essential for the
absorption of calcium found in dairy products. By destroying phosphatase,
the calcium from dairy products deposits into our arteries and joints,
causing osteoporosis and hardening of the arteries. Because the calcium is
going to our arteries and joints, and not being absorbed and used to help
build strong bones, our bodies are forced to take calcium out of our bones
to compensate.
On top of that, the excess animal protein in milk causes our bodies to steal
calcium from our bones. This is because when humans drink milk from a cow
(another species of animal) our bodies becomes acidic, and in order to
balance all of that acidity our body takes calcium away from our bones. This
is why even though we drink more milk than any other country, we also have
the highest level of osteoporosis and heart disease. People living in
developing nations who drink little to no milk actually have stronger bones
than we do.
Yes, drinking milk is actually bad for bone growth.
Feminists, listen up: milk is not only obtained by raping a female cow,
stealing and murdering her offspring, and using, abusing and exploiting her
body — but it also causes the number one killer of women in America: breast
cancer.
The three biggest causes of breast cancer are animal protein, fat and
estrogen. All three are found in dairy products. Even if you only consume
organic dairy products, you are still getting all the fat and animal protein
found in cows milk, as well as estrogen. Even organic milk has estrogen —
it’s just a lower amount — and it still does damage to your body. It’s time
to take a stand against cruelty to females across all species. It’s time to
say an emphatic NO to dairy products!
A very big link to cancer is a protein in milk called casein. Casein was
intended by nature to bond the mother cow and her calf. Its purpose was to
cause a feeling of bliss for the calf so that he or she would want to
continue suckling and stay near to his or her mother and thus be safe from
predators. If a calf wants to drink milk and likes to drink milk, they will
eventually grow into a big strong adult cow.
The blissful feeling baby calves feel when drinking milk is caused by
casein, which when ingested is turned into casomorphins which act as a low
dose of morphine. This morphine fix we get from milk is what keeps us
addicted to it — and it is even stronger in cheese.
Dairy products do nothing for our health and are unavoidably cruel, even for
the most “caring” of farmers. It is impossible to take a baby animal away
from its mother and call it anything but cruel. It is impossible to rape a
sentient being and call it anything but cruel. And it is impossible to know
all of this is going on, but still continue to fund it anyway and call it
anything but cruel.
You are responsible for your actions. Saying you care about animals, and yet
still supporting the industries that exploit them shows what little value
your words hold. Join me and millions of other animal lovers around the
world in our fight to end animal cruelty and abuse. LIVE VEGAN!
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