@[email protected] to World [email protected] • 1 year agoThe truth about organic milk: cows are suffering on even the most “humane” dairy farmswww.theatlantic.comexternal-linkmessage-square177fedilinkarrow-up1340cross-posted to: [email protected][email protected]
arrow-up1340external-linkThe truth about organic milk: cows are suffering on even the most “humane” dairy farmswww.theatlantic.com@[email protected] to World [email protected] • 1 year agomessage-square177fedilinkcross-posted to: [email protected][email protected]
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink43•1 year agoCows need to be pregnant to produce milk so dairy cows are artificially inseminated throughout most of their lives. They don’t tell you this in school.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink11•1 year agoIt’s obvious but blew my mind when I was told that
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink18•1 year agoNot only that but the calves would require a large percentage of that milk, and so a byproduct of dairy farms is often veal, at least for the male calves.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink4•1 year agoThey do tell it in school. What is meat. Vegan vegetarian… Ethical working with animals … 11-12 year old classes btw.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink3•1 year agoI don’t remember any of that from school. I got one year of food wheel followed by 11 of food pyramid, and that was the extent of diet and nutrition.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink2•1 year agoThat depends on your school, and when you went there. Many of us did not learn any of this.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink3•1 year agoI don’t remember ever getting a class like that, and if they tried to put one in they’d invite the considerably scary wrath of the farmers.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink7•1 year agoThen after only 4-5 years of this they are slaughtered because the milk production begins to diminish.
Cows need to be pregnant to produce milk so dairy cows are artificially inseminated throughout most of their lives.
They don’t tell you this in school.
It’s obvious but blew my mind when I was told that
Not only that but the calves would require a large percentage of that milk, and so a byproduct of dairy farms is often veal, at least for the male calves.
They do tell it in school. What is meat. Vegan vegetarian… Ethical working with animals … 11-12 year old classes btw.
I don’t remember any of that from school.
I got one year of food wheel followed by 11 of food pyramid, and that was the extent of diet and nutrition.
That depends on your school, and when you went there. Many of us did not learn any of this.
I don’t remember ever getting a class like that, and if they tried to put one in they’d invite the considerably scary wrath of the farmers.
Then after only 4-5 years of this they are slaughtered because the milk production begins to diminish.