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= The Horrors of Milk. =

When you think of dairy cows, you think of happy carefree animals living in the pasture grazing with their young. These are the lies that the dairy companies want you to believe. But what goes on behind the fence is more gruesome then those late night slasher film you watch.

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People honestly treat animals this way. Lots of people. This is one of thousands of undercover cameras from thousands of different dairy farms. Why do they do it? They feel that the animal is inferior to them thus treating it how ever they want. People like this are sick in the head.

=The milk you love to drink. = I have often thought to myself, "I wonder who was the first person to think of drinking cow's milk, and what were they doing there." Cow's milk is produced for nutrients for the offspring. Same as how a human mother produces breast milk for her child. This being said, milk is a wonderful source of nutrients, for a calf. There are components in cow's milk that just isn't good for our bodies. There is a higher fat and cholesterol content then what our bodies are used to. This could trigger things such as heart problems from build-up.

 Milk is made up of 87% water. So you are just paying $3.00 a gallon for white, fatty water.

Milk is also poorly regulated. You would think that something that is so widely populated would be cleaner. Well cow's milk is allowed to have feces in it. Just like you are allowed to have so many bugs in chocolate bars and things like that. This is a major source for bacteria. Milk is typically pasteurized more than once before it gets to your table. Each time it's for only 15 seconds at 162 degrees Fahrenheit. When people boil water to make it safe to drink and kill all the bacteria, they boil it at 212 degrees F for several minutes. As you saw in the video above, these animals get hurt. This causes wounds that get infected and pus. Where does all that pus go? It falls into the milk. One cubic centimeter of commercial cow's milk is allowed to have up to 750,000 somatic cells which is a fancy name for pus and 20,000 live bacteria, before it is kept off the market.

=And this little cow went to dairy. =



As you can see, Cows aren't given much room when they are "nursing". This is done to save money but who are they really helping? When cows are this close to each other they can give each other diseases such as mad cow. But even if the animals were to get this, the farmers would still use their milk.

Where are the big grassy fields? The happy content cows grazing on the grass with their young? Speaking of young. Did you know that in order for the cows to keep producing the milk, they need to be pregnant or giving birth. This mean that the farmers artificially inseminate the cows in order for the milk to keep being produced. When the cow gives birth, the calf don't stay with the mother. Most are sold for veal and the other are kept and raised to become future dairy cows.