You’ve undoubtedly heard your whole life that milk is good for you. For decades parents and the government has been telling children to drink milk every single day. Even celebrities are getting in the act, as they pose with a milk mustache in ads for the dairy industry. Dairy is everywhere, from ice cream to cheese to butter and sour cream. So you would think that drinking milk is healthy. But you would be wrong. But health concerns is just one reason to stop drinking milk. Here are several other reasons to stop drinking milk.
- Cow’s milk is intended for baby cows. Human beings are the only animals on Earth who drink milk after they are no longer infants. Humans are also the only ones who drink the milk of a different species. It’s not natural.
- Humans have a delicate hormonal balance. It can be thrown off since the naturally present hormones in cow’s milk is stronger than human hormones. Not only that, but cows are given steroids and other hormones to make them bigger and to increase their milk production.
- The highest occurrence of osteoporosis around the world happens in countries where its citizens consume dairy products.
- Soon after cows give birth, their children are taken away and chained to eventually become veal. Thus, you’re drinking milk from grieving mothers.
- Most cows live in inhumane conditions with no freedom to roam. Cows don’t live to their life expectancy, they are killed when they become fat enough. By drinking milk, you are giving money directly to the people who imprison them.
No offence Vegans, I appreciate your doing because it´s good for the enviroment, still I disagree with many of your arguments or actions, most of all the missionaric, agressive media/public-appearence of mostly young Vegans (young people normally cling to extremism and have serious problems with democratic pulralism and respecting other opinions) and with the quasi-religious ideology and the over-emotional and nearly unwanted-self-satiric campaigns of Vegans/PETA.
Talking about naturality is a farce anyways, of course drinking milk (as an adult) is not “natural” though that is an cultural invention like agriculture and livestock-farming but also domesting vegetables.
It´s like complaining about war including the killing or winter including coldness and snow or even more foundational: the night being without sunlight.
Also the argument with the intention of Cows milk is very poor. The intention of Cows in general for sure was not serving humans, neither any grain was intentionally dedicated for humans. It is humanitys ability to create and also to adapt.
We adapted for living from agriculture and with the end of the hunter-and gatherer-existence came the beginning of the farmer-and-butcher-existence and with that the using of livestock as a ressource with the included loss of respect.
I agree that this actual consuming on animals is far from rationality neither from being wise (ignoring the ethic tragedy of it), but that the greed, gluttony and exorbitance are the primary worths of the whole society and not only a symptomic in agriculture.
Also the disrepect for animals is included in the 3 great religions (like the Jewish kosher or the Islamic Halal slaughtering, but like the christian-european ideolgy of subduing the world because of being the summit of creation) but primary in the actual era; it is based in the capitalistic/nihilistic and materialistic western-globalized economy-fascist ideology.
I also drink Soda milk (for drinking, I prefer real dairy for cooking, because of better quality/cook-ability), but for the reason of saving envoriment, I would never say it´s wrong or shameful to utilize animals or any other live form or even come up with the pseudo-religious nonsense of those anti-speciesists. Because that´s not unnatural. All life except to plants it based on feeding and consuming on other life-forms, but though we have great opputinity we have great resposibility for the living beings serving as and if we want to feed on them we have to ensure them a goods ife and if needed to kill them (for flesh or skin) spare them from preventable and so unecessary suffering.
I repeat: I respect your opinion, Vegans, but as a convinced and proud democrat I urgently appeal to you to respect the democratic pluralism. Only because you believe in a certain ideology and the majority of the society seems to do not, you have not the right to deny the opinion of others only because they do not share your believe.
In hope of constructive change