Myth # 50 : " But I only consume goat dairy ."
Myth # 50 : " But I only consume goat dairy ."
This excuse is actually almost dear to me , as it was the very last excuse I used before finally going vegan . My addiction to dairy ( primarily the casein in the massive amounts of cheese I was eating ) was so strong that I actually convinced myself for a few weeks that dairy goats were treated humanely ; that dairy goats were not forcibly impregnated like their bovine cousins – that they didn ' t have their babies stolen from them immediately after birth , that they weren ' t over-milked , and that they weren ' t slaughtered after only a few short years of abuse after their milk production dropped and they no longer remained profitable .
Of course , after only a few short weeks steeped in this delusion , I knew that something was amiss . I knew that – just like with their cow-based cousins – there is no way for goat farms to avoid bankruptcy ( let alone make any money ) if they treat their older , non-milk producing goats with respect and allow them to live out their lives naturally . I also intuitively knew that male kids on all of these farms were slaughtered shortly after birth and that " used up " adolescent female goats met a similarly brutal end .
And it was at that moment that I finally accepted the fact that there is no way to humanely treat another sentient being as either a slave or as a commodity ; I knew that there is no way to force another conscious being into service that involved immense suffering , and I knew that there is simply no way to caringly terminate another being ' s life merely because he or she no longer satisfies my own wants or desires .
So after researching the goat dairy industry and finding out that my hunches were glaringly correct ... I became a vegan the very next day .
Current status of this Myth : Rebutted Justification it provides for eating animals : NONE
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