• Ephera@lemmy.ml
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    4 days ago

    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…

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      3 days ago

      I hope milk cows have a nice retirement after they can’t “produce” enough babies and milk anymore /s

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        3 days ago

        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…