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A Compassion Over Killing investigation inside a massive Pennsylvania dairy factory uncovered extreme violence toward defenseless baby calves and mother cows, treated as nothing more than milk-producing machines. COK was determined to find out how this cruelty was making its way to American consumers—so we followed a truck carrying Martin Farms’ miserable milk straight to one of the world’s largest ice cream plants, churning out Dreyer’s, Edy’s, and Häagen-Dazs ice cream for the world's largest food and dairy company: Nestlé.
When alerted to the abuse we documented, Nestlé responded that it immediately severed ties with Martin Farms--and later, after hearing from tens of thousands of you, the food giant announced it was launching a vegan cheeseburger and ditching its dirty US ice cream business for good.
But even though Nestlé is scooping a huge chunk of cruelty out of its supply chain, the dairy industry continues churning out abuse like the horrors our investigation uncovered. The dairy industry’s profits depend on a cycle of cruelty: Like all mammals, in order to produce milk, a cow must have recently given birth. Female cows are repeatedly forcibly impregnated and have their day-old babies ripped from their side so that their milk can be used for humans. After spending years mired in their own waste and suffering routine abuse, their 20-year natural lifespan is cut short when their exhausted, depleted bodies are no longer considered useful and they are sent to slaughter for beef, largely low-grade meat like hamburger, at just 5 years old.
Millions of consumers are discovering the best way we can spare gentle cows from abuse in the dairy industry: keeping the milk they produce for their babies out of our shopping carts. In response to this surging demand, The Economist recently named 2019 the “year of the vegan.” Non-dairy milks already comprise 13 percent of total milk sales, and the market for plant-based milk products is projected to double in size to $30 billion in 2023!
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