Forums: January 2010 Kickstart Forum Archive: Dairy industry is no better than the beef industry
Created on: 01/07/10 09:49 PM Views: 896 Replies: 3
Richard Joined: 01/02/10 Location: Australia Posts: 15	Dairy industry is no better than the beef industry Posted Thursday, January 7, 2010 at 9:49 PM We should never use milk or milk products on humane grounds alone. Just like the battery hen-egg industry is silent on the issue of what they do with newborn male chickens, the dairy industry is very silent on what they do with newborn male calves that are born by their-milk producing mothers. In Oz, and I would suspect everywhere else too, they are taken from their mothers after just 2-3-4 days old and transported to saleyards where they are sold as 'veal' and 'waste products'. Much to its disgrace, the Australian Government recently refused to amend a 'code of practice' (these codes are used in Oz as a way of legalising the treatment of animals that would be unlawful if applied to domestic pets) that would have provided that calves left in trucks and slaughter yards overnight don't need to be given anything to drink. Still, I guess thirst is the least of their worries. Check out the Animals Australia website at http://www.animalsaustralia.org/ and the dairy cows factsheet at http://www.animalsaustralia.org/factsheets/dairy_cows.php I used to have milk in my tea and coffee (and sugar too) but gave them up to help me lose weight - which I did. If only I'd known about the tragic consequences of my milk drinking and cheese eating on calves and dairy cows I would have given it up sooner. And once you've given it up, you'll never go back to it. It tastes awful after doing without it for a while. Richard
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jgk177 Joined: 01/01/10 Posts: 29	RE: Dairy industry is no better than the beef indu Posted Thursday, January 7, 2010 at 10:11 PM I cant agree with you more..sometimes when I really think about the countless brutalities committed against the hundreds of thousands of innocent, helpless animals by our "fellow humans" I am sickened and I lose so much faith in my belief in the basic goodness of people. How could they...the people who actually do these things..how do the sleep at night, how do they collect a paycheck based on these disgraceful acts they commit? And worse than that, how do so many uninformed "good people" go on unknowingly supporting these brutalities by sheer nature of their ignorance. They eat these animals, they wear their remains on their feet, or shampoo their hair with bodily fluids from the very animals they have eaten...How did it come to this? I walk through the grocery store, look at all that packaged meat, all those eggs, and pounds of butter and cheese, and I wonder who is eating ALL this..truth is, much of it gets thrown away because it sits past it's shelf life. Half these animals are bred then slaughtered just to be thrown away anyway.
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Mariberry Joined: 01/02/10 Posts: 297	RE: Dairy industry is no better than the beef indu Posted Thursday, January 7, 2010 at 10:18 PM Ignorance is bliss. Once one starts to become enlightened on these issues, things change. The thing to say to people who say "I don't want to know!" is: if you keep your head stuck in the sand, what part of you is left sticking up??? We are the changes we want to see in the world. Good on us, mates! All we are saying is "Give Peas a Chance"
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shanna Joined: 12/30/09 Posts: 287	RE: Dairy industry is no better than the beef indu Posted Friday, January 8, 2010 at 12:37 AM Eloquent post, Richard. Thanks.
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