Myth # 48 : " But dairy cows need to be milked ."
Myth # 48 : " But dairy cows need to be milked ."
It is indeed true that if a dairy cow is not relieved of her milk , her udders can become painfully distended . Of course , this almost never happens in nature because cows , like all other mammals – including humans , only lactate while nursing their young after having given birth to them . In essence , then , the only reason that a dairy cow " needs to be milked " is because the dairy farmer has forcibly impregnated her and then stolen her baby calf after it was born . As such , it is absolutely preposterous for a dairy farmer to even indirectly claim to be milking a cow for her own benefit – when those same farmers are the ones who caused her suffering in the first place !
In addition , this argument completely neglects the fact that dairy cows are forced to produce far more milk than they ever would naturally . Left to her own life , the average cow would produce roughly one gallon of milk per day for her baby calf ... On the average dairy farm ( where cows are frequently given large quantities of hormones to keep their milk production high – hormones like " Insulin-like Growth Factor One " that have been scientifically linked to breast , prostate and colon cancer in humans ), she is hooked up to a machine that sucks 6-10 gallons from her udders every day , and this , for months at a time .
Logically , such aggressive over-milking causes the average cow ' s udder to quickly bloat well beyond its normal size , resulting in severe pain , and frequently leading to the development of open sores and chronic mastitis . Because of this , over 50 different antibiotics are regularly used to control the infections that invariably ensue – antibiotics that not only make it into the customer ' s milk supply , but that also provide a happy breeding ground for fast-mutating “ super-viruses ”. The prevalence of these serious health problems in dairy cows explains why the U . S . Food & Drug Administration is practically forced to allow the presence of 750,000 blood & puss cells and 20,000 living bacteria in every cubic centimeter of milk produced – which is , without any doubt , patently disgusting .
All in all , regardless of where a dairy cow is found – whether painfully enslaved on a factory farm or coddled gently on an organic one – one thing remains certain : the only time she ever truly " needs to be milked " is shortly after she has been deeply abused – and shortly before she will be brutally murdered .
Current status of this Myth : Cancelled Justification it provides for eating animals : NONE
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