07/11/2021
Unfortunately most modern dairies usually kill
Their cows, even though a cow can make milk for years after giving birth just by naming them.affection is key.
Milking actually doesn’t harm animals and is a complete protein etc. The way modern dairy farms milk the cows and treat them is non-different from slaughterhouses—especially the commercial big ag operations. There are many examples in nature of animals having a symbiotic relationship like that. When given love and affection cows will make milk years after birthing their calf out of affection. Just naming them increases milk out of motherly affection).
Even wolves have been known to suckle deer etc—even humans. Milk is a source of nutritional nourishment.
Ants belonging to the genus of Lasius are active animal breeders. Yellow meadow ants (Lasius flavus), for example, keep aphids as “milk cows.” They eat the aphids’ liquid f***s of high sugar content, the so-called honeydew, and in return they protect them and care for them. In case of danger, they carry their “domestic animals” with them. Although eggs are certainly gross and cruel.
Even milk in its natural state, heated and spiced over a fire provide all essential amino acids (a complete protein; even 12b traditionally gotten from gardens and streams; it stays in the system for years if digestion is good but most people have issues, especially parasites).
Cows are like giant pets like dogs. Vegans should start their own sanctuary dairies and people would choose their milk where cows aren’t slaughtered. The calf only takes a small amount of the total. Vegans have a great opportunity for capital and influence, and certainly you could save many more animals as it’s easy to give up meat. People could turn vegetarian much easier and the cows wouldn’t have to be killed.
If the milk isn’t homogenized or pasteurized and it’s a2 milk (from humoed or brahmin cows found in Australia, Brazil and India of course) it’s quite digestible and healthy. Pasteurization and homogenization allow the milk particles to enter the blood stream essentially. Still should be heated though. Cows have the same relationship with people as dogs. Milking causes them zero pain. Only the brute techniques of these modern dairies are bad. It’s better for them than roaming like stray dogs. Just google animals drinking milk from other animals.
Cows turn useless wheat chaffs, dark refuse, and grass into nutritious foodstuffs. Brahmin cows (Bos ta**us indicus, the cows with humps) for one produce A2 milk which can be digested easier by most humans. Milk also nutritious, contains vitamin D etc, and a complete protein and contains b12, something vegans find might find hard to come by in food form. When cows are shown affection they will produce milk for many years after giving birth. Milk is meant to be a nourishing foodstuff, unlike eggs or meat.
Humans have a symbiotic relationship with cows and bulls. Cows are also artificially forced to reproduce and increase their numbers. There are many such brahmin cows who thrive even better in a forest setting. Brahmin cows eat a variety of plants and graze in the forests, unlike most western breeds who mostly graze on grass. The variety further enriches it's milk. Brahmins have hooves specially made for rough, uneven surfaces ideal for forests.
If you want to save the planet, stop eating animals (meat, fish, eggs).
Pollution and environmental destruction is certainly an issue, but so-called Global warming is another pseudoscience canard to steal your tax dollars and lock you down. The original covid. We are in a cooling period in a slight rescind from the Maunder Minimum 400 years ago ending circa 1750, one of the coldest periods of the last 10,000. A few centuries before that we had the medieval warming period when temperatures were several degrees warmer. During the Dark Ages we had a cooling period, and a greco-roman warming before that. Then another cold spell during the greek dark ages and a warming era a few centuries before that, the Bronze Age minoan/Mycenaen warming before that.
The earth’s climate is always vacillating up and down by several degrees. That’s why Obama and al gore buy mansions at the edge of the coast.
Meat industry: Greatest environmental destroyer
The global scope of the livestock issue is huge. A 212-page online report published by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization says 26 percent of the earth’s terrestrial surface is used for livestock grazing. One-third of the planet’s arable land is occupied by livestock feed crop cultivation. Seventy percent of Brazil’s deforested land is used as pasture, with feed crop cultivation occupying much of the remainder. And in Botswana, the livestock industry consumes 23 percent of all water used. Globally, 18 percent of greenhouse gas emissions can be attributed to the livestock industry—more than is produced by transportation-related sources.
And in the United States, livestock production is responsible for 55 percent of erosion, 37 percent of all applied pesticides and 50 percent of antibiotics consumed, while the animals themselves directly consume 95 percent of our oat production and 80 percent of our corn, according to the Sierra Club.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/is-the-livestock-industry-destroying-the-planet-11308007/
In Ohio, farmers need 1-2 acres for every cow/calf pair they have. That acreage requirement goes up in other places–in some very dry areas of the Southwest, that may be 25 acres. While cattle that are also grain-fed go to market after just 13-15 months of life, cattle that are entirely grass fed take 20-24 months to be ready and result in lighter-weight cattle and less meat per animal. That requires an enormous amount of land and time, something that’s not feasible for many farmers. And in climates that have harsh winters (like Ohio), it’s impossible for cows to graze outdoors all year
http://long.https://www.realmomnutrition.com/what-is-grass-fed-beef/More (long.https://www.realmomnutrition.com/what-is-grass-fed-beef/
More than 90% of the rain forest since 1970 was cleared for cattle. It takes ten pounds of grain to get a pound of meat, and farmers could grow edible crops for humans instead of livestock-grade feed. It takes 2400 gallons of water to produce one pound of beef. The pollution is horrendous.Animals raised for food in the U.S. produce many times more excrement than does the entire human population of the country. According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), animals on U.S. factory farms produce about 500 million tons of manure each year. With no animal sewage processing plants, it is most often stored in waste “lagoons” (which can be seen in aerial views of factory farms) or it gets sprayed over fields.
Runoff from factory farms and livestock grazing is one of the leading causes of pollution in our rivers and lakes. The EPA notes that bacteria and viruses can be carried by the runoff and that groundwater can be contaminated.
Factory farms frequently dodge water pollution limits by spraying liquid manure into the air, creating mists that are carried away by the wind. People who live nearby are forced to inhale the toxins and pathogens from the sprayed manure. A report by the California State Senate noted, “Studies have shown that [animal waste] lagoons emit toxic airborne chemicals that can cause inflammatory, immune, irritation and neurochemical problems in humans.”
World hunger solved
“It is estimated that a staggering 925 million humans around the world are suffering from the effects of hunger (mostly in the poor and underdeveloped countries of Asia and Africa), and out of that original number, 870 million are affected with malnutrition. Those original 925 million actually outnumber the combined populace living in the United States, Canada, and the European Union. Think about that for a moment. That means that there are enough hungry people on this planet to fill up almost two entire continents. Furthermore, it must be made clear that this is not just benign hunger; the type felt by a person in the rich, developed world when they’ve missed their lunch break.
However, it has been proven that there is enough food on earth to feed every last man, woman, and child. Yet, if this is the case, why do people around the world continue to starve? The answer to that question lies in large part with the production of animal-based foods, such as meat, dairy, and eggs.
http://gentleworld.org/could-veganism-end-world-hunger/
Meat eating wouldn’t even be affordable or economical if it weren’t for government subsidies. The ironic socialism of cattle farmers:
Ever wonder why the cost of meat can be cheaper than a pint of blueberries? Or why fast-food burgers cost less than a dollar? Agricultural subsidies is why. These are financial grants funded by tax payers (you & me) to make inductors more “financially viable.” They can be useful during unforeseen events but usually not positive. Globally the world provides one million dollars per minute to agriculture. However only one percent is used to benefit the environment. Most go to animal farms or soy and corn, the majority of which go to feed livestock.
I other words the majority of subsidies does to drive down the cost of the foods that most damage the environment, breeding diseases and illnesses, drastically and causing the suffering of hundred of billions of animals per year.
The animal industry gets so much tax payer money that each cow on Europe gets a $2.20 a day—an annual income of more than the half the world’s human population.
In the UK alone, around 90% of farm profits come from such subsidies. The average farmer makes £12,000 even though they are given £44,000 a year. In contrast only 10% of fruit farmers’ profits come from subsidies. In other words our tax dollars go to industries that aren’t economically viable without such subsidies.
In the US farmers are given billions a year, with trump giving $28 billion in addition with $13 billion more on the way to win votes (one reason given was the trade war—though the amount given were worth double the amount lost from said trade war).
Even though farmers are the biggest recipients of corporate welfare, $5 billion was cut from services such as food stamps that provide food for low income families.
These policies are neither environmentally or financially sustainable, nor are they humane.
The elimination of animal industry subsidies on costs to a led to the return of rain forests, and the implementation of payments to improve nature. This can be implemented worldwide, providing cheaper healthier foods while helping struggling farmers by simply changing the way we eat.
https://npl971975.wordpress.com/2018/08/10/suu-tam-the-u-s-is-cow-country-and-other-lessons-from-this-land-use-map/
The truth is we don’t need to eat animals; we are anatomically frugívores (taxon of herbivore). Ancient man had more reverence for them than is commonly thought-Hunting wasn’t as prominent as we assume.
If someone started chewing in a living animal at a baseball game they would arrest you.
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/human-ancestors-were-nearly-all-vegetarians/
