________________ Very Ideal scenario-Cows/buffalos should be on their own....in jungle or on farm...free from control of human being.... in limited numbers... following natural processes of birth and death ..humans don't intervene to do artificial insemination of animals or kill them for food or torture them for any animal product..live and let live........... What if some people have different opinion.. Very honestly, most of the problem starts when we try to put ourselves in to some box/category/group like Vegan or Vegetarianism, Jains. Christians, etc. People become very strict and somewhat stubborn when they try to follow some particular path. e.g. Jains on eating kandmul or some people follow some rituals. We should not worry about who is saying what. We need to follow a Lord Mahavir's principle of 'anekantvad' (respect for views of others). The most important thing is to follow 'ahimsa'.. which is a supreme religion (Ahimsa Parmo Dharma). We need to exercise our judgement and follow our heart and soul. Please note- We have not tocuhed upon four major issues in this note There are many research papers which clearly establish that humans do not need animal milk. They can get all nutritiions from plant based food. Kid just need his/her mother milk and no other milk when it grows up. Milk contains fat and cholesterol. No fibre. Milk is responsible for heart disease, diabetes and other serious diseases. Oxitocin and other injections and medicines are given to animals to increase milk production. Huge deterioration in quality of cattle feed. All these has resulted in very very low utility of animal milk. Due to excessive milk consumption and ever increasing milk price, adulteration in milk is a very serious issue and almost 78% of milk available in India is adulterated which is causing some serious health risks.