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floey | 19 | infp | vegan since 12/10/2015 | i'm mchalenski trash and allison's daughter. 

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lycanrocourse:

just wondering, do vegans really think that drinking milk is stealing from baby cows? do they really think that milk cows have babies that are starving? and not that they let the calf nurse until its old enough to not need milk and then keep milking the cow? because if you keep milking a cow she’ll keep producing milk? do vegans really think that we’re stealing milk from calves???

that’s completely not true- most (70%) of dairy cows are weaned at 7 weeks, though 5 weeks is common. compare this to beef calves, who stay with the herd and are able to wean naturally at 7-8 months. dairy cows do not stay with their mother, which is why weaning can be forced at an early age. they don’t even stay with them long enough to get colostrum (literally force fed via a tube down their throats), as seperating a early as possible reduces time for bonding. they are weaned early literally just to save milk and money x  x

they don’t let the babies starve, they’ll either kill them, use whole milk, or milk replacer. they are fed through a bucket or bottle, not their mothers. if they’re nursing, the milk cannot be sold for humans. 

cows don’t keep producing milk if they’re milked. which is why they have calves every 12-14 months because ‘every day a cow is not pregnant beyond 120 days after calving it costs about $3.00 per cow per day’. pregnancy is 9 months, the 2 months before calving is the ONLY time of the year she isn’t milked. that’s 273 days pregnant, 305 days milking, and 60 not. there’s no time or money available to lose milk to a calf. 

do vegans really think that we’re stealing milk from calves? yes.

Holy crap, how daft are non-vegans??

cows aren’t aliens, they’re mammals. they produce milk for their children. how many humans do you see lactating at the same rate indefinitely after their child has grown up?