Myth # 47 : " But I ’ m already a vegetarian ."
Myth # 47 : " But I ’ m already a vegetarian ."
As it turns out , I am more sympathetic to this particular argument than most others , if for no other reason than I myself was an " ethical vegetarian " ( an oxymoron , of course , as I ultimately came to understand ) for over nine years before finally going vegan . I too was unaware of the sordid Truths that the milk industry had purposefully hidden from me ( and everyone else as well ) for the first 4 + decades of my life : namely , that in actuality there is no independent milk industry at all ; that the meat industry & the milk industry are actually ONE & THE SAME !
To make matters even worse , milk cows – even before they are hauled off to be brutally slaughtered at the tender age of four ( despite having a normal life expectancy of over 20 ) – actually suffer far greater traumas & abuses than their beef-cow cousins . Milk , just like is meat , is murder – with an extra-heavy dose of mourning and mutilation thrown in to boot … Consider the following facts :
* Fact : Dairy cows , like meat cows , are almost exclusively confined for the entirety of the shortened lives in disgusting conditions . And unlike beef cows , dairy cows suffer the additional torture of being repeatedly raped ( or " artificially inseminated "; a process whereby each female cow is tied to a " rape rack " and then forcibly penetrated – simultaneously anally & vaginally – in order to assure an involuntary pregnancy ) …
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