What’s in YOUR milk?
Livestock has been reported to account for about 18% of global gas emissions.
We demand Milk> Milk needs Cows >Cows ^^^> GHG emissions ^^^^>Environment negatively impacted ^^^.
*Deforestation to create land/fields to hold them.
*Soil Pollution from their waste
*Account for 80% of grain used in United States.
“Eighty percent of the grain the United States produces goes to livestock. Seventy-eight percent of all of our beef comes from feed lots, where the cattle eat grain, mostly corn and wheat. The cattle spend their adult lives packed shoulder to shoulder in a space not much bigger than their bodies, up to their knees in shit, being stuffed with grain and a constant stream of antibiotics to prevent the disease this sort of confinement invariably engenders. The manure is rich in nitrogen and once provided a farm’s fertilizer. The feedlots, however, are now far removed from farm fields, so it is simply not “efficient” to haul it to cornfields. It is waste. It exhales methane, a global-warming gas. It pollutes streams. ” Richard Manning
Milk is produced in female animals to nourish their young. Once the young are weaned off the milk the female will stop lactating. Milk farmers will use artificial insemination to keep the cows almost constantly pregnant or lactating. After the calves are born they are taken from their parent. Males are sent to another location to be made into veal or are fed and made plump for beef, and female calves will endure the same life as their mothers. Female cows are attached, numerous times a day, to milking mechanisms. Using influencing genes, giving potent hormones, and continuous milking, factory farmers cause the cows to create 10 times more milk then they would organically.
