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Gail commented on the article |I was not trying to make an ethical argument based on science. I was merely stating what should be obvious: That it is not natural for humans to consume the milk of another species, any more than it is natural for any other species to consume the milk of humans or any other species. Mammals produce milk for the benefit of their offspring. Period.
It should be noted that in nature, cows produce 6-7 gallons of milk per day, and like human babies, calves will feed whenever hungry throughout the day. Calves may consume between two and a half and three gallons of milk per day, meaning that cows do not produce ten times as much milk as their calves can consume, as Paul has stated. The only reason cows will produce that much milk is because they are given hormones, which force them to produce much more milk than nature intended. This is painful for the cows, and disgusting for the humans who consume milk that comes from their engorged, filthy, and diseased teats.
Having said that, if we are to return to an ethical argument, the truth of the matter is that the overwhelming majority of humans in developed nations get their dairy from factory-farmed cows. Far be it for me to tell someone who raises a cow humanely and feels compelled to share its milk with its offspring, that it's not okay to do that. But this is not what we're talking about here, and to try to make it so, is counter-productive to the goal of abolishing factory farming, which is what we all seem to be in agreement about. -
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I respect your religious beliefs as well, Paul. However, if we were to step away from approaching this as a religious argument, and view it from a purely scientific perspective, we would see that cow's milk is intended by nature to help baby cows quickly mature to 1,000+ lb. adults. It makes no more sense for humans to consume bovine mammary secrections than it does for humans to consume the mammary secretions of elephants, lions, rats, dogs, or cats. Just because humans have been doing it for thousands of years, it doesn't make it a healthful choice. Humans engage in lots of mass self-destructive behaviors, none of which are evidence of God-given rights. Proof that cow's milk was designed exclusively for baby cows can be readily seen in the epidemiological studies of populations with high dairy consumption, in which rates of heart disease, obesity, osteoporosis, and breast, prostate, and colon cancer run rampant. Cow's milk is nature's perfect food for baby cows, and the way in which dairy is mass-produced for human consumption is a horrendous example of human disregard for the lives of animals, regardless of any human's philosophical or religious point of view.
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My friend, Marr Nealon once said, "There are no ethical vegetarians." Ingrid Newkirk has said, "There's a piece of dairy calf in every glass of milk." They're both right. If you don't want to be part of factory farming atrocities, there is only one choice: Go vegan.
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