Why are vegans so against milking cows? OK I live in the country by many diary farms, I've seen cows get milked they're not harmed in any way and they are healthy as ever and it does not harm the calves.

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PJ Stein answered

Many cows are given hormones so that they will produce milk even though they don't have a calf to feed. That is considered unatural and against what vegans believe.

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Some cows do not live in very pleasant conditions.  They are treated cruelly, and the milking is painful for them.  That is why.  Honestly, I think that if you know that the company treats their cows properly, it's all right for vegans to drink/ use cow milk.

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star gazing answered

Apparently there are some dairy "factories" that just line up the cows and milk by machine, and I forgot what I read but they either inseminate the cow over and over or they make the cow take hormones to make her continuously produce milk. Then they kill off the calves because there are too many.

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Dance like a gypsy
That's not true, the calves are usually in fields with the Mothers. They do put them on a milk machine but they released them after they're through. I've been to dairy farms growing up the cows aren't even bothered by it
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There are the more humane farms. I was thinking of a "factory farm", where the cows are crowded together so they can mass produce. The cows are artificially impregnated over and over to produce milk, and that's probably one of the reasons why ppl are against dairy
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http://livestocktrail.illinois.edu/dairynet/paperDisplay.cfm?ContentID=548 : this link is mostly about feeding the cows but scroll down to the subheadings "phase 4-phase6" and it mentions calving and once the cow "dries", it would have to be bred again to produce more milk. But of course, some cows produce more milk for a longer time than others and they're also given hormones to increase milk production : http://livestocktrail.illinois.edu/uploads/dairynet/papers/SystematicBreeding.pdf

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