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…
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.