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Hence there will not be enough milk for the calf when she recovers from her sickness.
In conclusion, we can safely state that:
Any drop of milk that we drink or we use in dairy products is considered stolen from the mother cow that was meant for her baby calf under normal healthy environment.
Any other reasons that we hear (we use excess milk of mother cow) from our religious scholars and leaders or from other sources are totally incorrect under natural healthy environment. They do not possess good knowledge of this subject.
From the Jain principle point view, by consuming dairy product we commit highest sin of violence and stealing.
4.0 Justification of Dairy Product Consumptions in the Past:
All Jains believe in vegetarianism and most Jains are vegetarians. However, a majority of Jains consume dairy products because animals are not directly killed during the milking operation and ancient Jain literature indicates the milk was consumed by our religious leaders including Lord Mahavir and other Tirthankars.
Hence most adult Jains and leaders believe that the dairy consumption is not in violation of the fundamental principle of Ahimsa and non-stealing.
Somehow they do not think of the basic laws of Mother Nature but assume that the cows produce large quantity of milk and the dairy farmers remove only access milk after the calf is fed.
After the investigation of history of the Indian literature and culture, we can easily conclude the following reasons for the usage of dairy products in the past.
In olden times:
• The agricultural industry was not developed. Bulls were used to farm the land. Also the fertilizer industry was not developed. India was not producing enough crops to feed its large human population. (Even about 65 years ago India was heavily importing grains and other foods from America under the PL480 program and distributing it to common people through the ration system. I use to stand in line to receive some grains from rationing).
The cow's milk provided additional food. The cow's male calf (bull) was used to farm the land. The cow's dung was used for fertilizer and fire, to cook the family meal and its urine used for medicine.
Hence the usage of cow and their bull, milk, and other products was essential for the survival of the large human population in India.
Since cows were essential for human survival, they treated the cows as a member of the family (mother cow). After the delivery of a baby calf, they allowed the calf to consume entire mother's milk for about two weeks. Then they use a small portion of the total milk for their food. The majority of milk was consumed by the baby calves. They took care of cows with very minimum violence. Cows were useful not only for their milk but also for farming, for their dung and for their urine.
My grandmother (about 65 years ago) knew that cow's milk was for her baby calf and she allowed her calf to consume milk from 3 udders and only one udder of milk was consumed by the family. She indicated that the baby calf would have consumed all the milk if she would have allowed her. Even though my grandmother was not educated but she understood the basic laws of Mother Nature very well.
5.0 Contemporary Dairy Product
Today the output of modern agricultural production of the world is such that it can feed the world population several times over. Also heavy machinery replaced the bulls for farming, modern medicine replaced the usage of cow's urine, and fertilizer and natural gas and electricity replaced the usage of cow dung.
Agriculturally India is independent. Hence for our survival there is no need to consume dairy products and to raise cows and to torture them and steal their milk that was meant for their calves.
5.1 Contemporary Dairy Industry
In recent times, the demand of dairy products has increased significantly after the invention of refrigeration and improved packaging technology. To meet the increased demand, the dairy industry is commercialized. The dairy
