* Fact : After insemination , every impregnated dairy cow gives birth roughly ten months later , and then within 24 hours of doing so her baby calf is forcibly taken from her ( and this , despite her enraged protests -- and ultimately mournful cries )...
* Fact : She is then confined and mechanically milked for roughly 16 months – forced to produce up to 10 times more milk than she normally would have for her stolen baby during the same amount of time ; a radical " overmilking " that is cost efficient for the farmer , and yet that is extremely painful for the cow
( frequently causing mastitis – a chronic swelling of her udder ) ...
* Fact : This process ( from forced pregnancy - to stolen calf - to manipulated over-milking ) is repeated with each gentle girl at least three more times , after which she can no longer produce enough milk to be profitable – and is shipped off at the tender age of 4-6 ( Again , cows have a normal lifespan of 20-25 ) to a slaughterhouse to be ruthlessly murdered and ground into cheap meat ...
* Fact : Her children , disturbingly enough , have it no better … If she gives birth to a healthy female calf , the child is set aside to be made pregnancy-ready as quickly as possible – essentially taking her mother ' s place once she has been turned into hamburger …
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