tofujesus:
for the billionth time: mother cows produce (mother’s-)milk solely for the nourishment of their calves not for you anthropocentric, exploitative, selfish, speciesist assholes. you all should have been weaned off milk a long fucking time ago, but if you think you need it so bad, at least get it from your own mothers, seriously go ask them, instead of destroying families and killing mothers and their babies.
it doesn’t matter if you get it from a cute little mom & pop farm far away from town or from a factory farm, exhausted dairy cows are still sent to slaughter and their calves are either sold for veal or grow up to be the next generation of milk machine slaves.
dairy is slavery. dairy is (female) oppression. dairy is rape. dairy is kidnapping. there is no humane way to commit either of these vile acts. go vegan or die in denial (and with fucked up bones).
You are my favorite.
"My perspective of veganism was most affected by learning that the veal calf is a by-product of dairying, and that in essence there is a slice of veal in every glass of what I had thought was an innocuous white liquid – milk."
rynn berry (via paulyunstoppable)
It’s frustrating when people get so mad about veal, but continue to drink milk. I had a conversation with a man about this today, actually. People have no idea that in order for a cow to produce milk, she has to have a baby.
(via veganbroad)
(Source: fuckyeahveganlife, via veganchickadee)
“Fundamentally, cow’s milk is a substance designed by nature for baby cows, not for humans. We are the only species that drinks the milk intended for the young of other species, and we are the only species that insists on drinking milk beyond the time of weaning. It seems we cannot bear the thought of growing up and leaving home. Perhaps we long for infancy and the peaceful oblivion of our mother’s breast, and if hers isn’t available, then we’ll use the breast of any lactating mother, even if she’s a cow and we have to kill her babies to get to it. Just as the complete unnaturalness of humans killing and eating animals is obvious if we contemplate trying to do it without implements, so is the drinking of milk.
The easy availability of veal cutlets and cheap hamburger masks their true cost and the cruelty of their dairy-farm origin, as do the tidy packages of cheese, milk, cream, and butter in the refrigerated dairy sections. In the wild, it is doubtful we’d ever be able to get close enough to a lactating cow, in a forest or grassland somewhere in Asia where cows naturally live, to obtain any milk. Wild bulls are ferociously protective and would gore us or chase us off first. If we managed to get by the bulls, it is unlikely any cow would allow us to get under her and suck on her teats. We would have to compete with the cow’s own baby, the rightful recipient of her milk, and push or kick the calf away, and somehow get the mother to hold still for us while we sucked or squeezed on her teats. The whole image is so absurd that not even the most committed milk-bibber would ever contemplate attempting it. It is only through an ongoing tradition of vicious domination that humans can drink cows’ milk, an unhealthy and perverse action at its core. The dairy products in our grocery stores are the result of many centuries of human manipulation and horrific brutality against cows— a brutality epitomized by today’s mechanized dairy operations, both large and small…” (Article continued here)
