What do you think happens to male chicks in the egg industry? I’ll give you a hint, it involves industrial grinders and pink paste.
Cows produce milk for their young, like all mammals. The “need” to milk them arises from milk production, in which we forcibly impregnate cows and take their young away. You can hardly call something a “need” if it only happens once you purposefully impregnate a cow for its milk and abduct their calves.
And that’s disregarding the atrocious conditions in hatcheries and dairy farms.
The egg and dairy industries are the meat industry, and honestly anyone who’s vegetarian for “ethical” reasons without immediate plans to become vegan are deluding themselves.
Not only the male, the female chick are genetically selected and lead to female having more eggs. I don’t recall the numbers but I think it is something like an egg everyday but in reality they would not have eggs everyday.
This also took me far longer to realize than I’d like to admit:
Cows only need to be milked after a pregnancy. And pregnancies lead to babies. In effect, we’re talking about 5-6 calves over the lifetime of 1 milk cow. Some of those calves will become the next generation of milk cows, but you’re not gonna keep those 4-5 extra calves around. Those will get slaughtered.
So, yeah, consuming milk products directly leads to cows being killed…
They get slaughtered when their milk production goes down around 6 years old. Even though they could get 18 - 20 years old. So not only the calves are slaughtered, their moms as well…
I dont get it really… as long as i dont kill something and eat it, whats the problem?
Arent unfertiluzed eggs just little containers of protein? Dont cows need to be milked?
Am i missing something?
What do you think happens to male chicks in the egg industry? I’ll give you a hint, it involves industrial grinders and pink paste.
Cows produce milk for their young, like all mammals. The “need” to milk them arises from milk production, in which we forcibly impregnate cows and take their young away. You can hardly call something a “need” if it only happens once you purposefully impregnate a cow for its milk and abduct their calves.
And that’s disregarding the atrocious conditions in hatcheries and dairy farms.
The egg and dairy industries are the meat industry, and honestly anyone who’s vegetarian for “ethical” reasons without immediate plans to become vegan are deluding themselves.
Not only the male, the female chick are genetically selected and lead to female having more eggs. I don’t recall the numbers but I think it is something like an egg everyday but in reality they would not have eggs everyday.
This also took me far longer to realize than I’d like to admit:
Cows only need to be milked after a pregnancy. And pregnancies lead to babies. In effect, we’re talking about 5-6 calves over the lifetime of 1 milk cow. Some of those calves will become the next generation of milk cows, but you’re not gonna keep those 4-5 extra calves around. Those will get slaughtered.
So, yeah, consuming milk products directly leads to cows being killed…
I hope milk cows have a nice retirement after they can’t “produce” enough babies and milk anymore /s
They get slaughtered when their milk production goes down around 6 years old. Even though they could get 18 - 20 years old. So not only the calves are slaughtered, their moms as well…
Yeah i know, i was role-playing the candid vegetarian :D
Ah yes, you got me, missed the /s.