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Also to ensure steady milk production the organic dairy farms:
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Keep cows pregnant all the time through artificial insemination or other means
Sell baby calves to veal or beef industry, where they are slaughtered in six months or five years.
Sell the adult cows to the slaughterhouses after four years when the milk production yield drops
Also milk yield of Organic cow is less than 50% of the regular cow. Hence for the same quantity of milk, the organic dairy farms raise more than twice the number of cows. Since all cows are slaughtered after 5 years, hence twice the number of organic cows are being slaughtered for the same quantity of milk consumed.
Hence the Organic milk is not cruelty free milk.
American Slaughterhouse Statistics:
New York Times on May 12, 1996 reported that on an average day the following numbers of animals are slaughtered in American slaughterhouses.
Animals/Birds
Cattle
Calves
Hogs
Chickens
Number Killed per day in USA
130,000
7,000
360,000
24,000,000
(Note - Please let me know if you have any statistics for India.)
Health Issues:
After becoming vegan, I have researched the following health related issues and summarized my findings as follows:
Calcium and Protein Issue:
Most Americans consume two to three times protein from animal source (milk, cheese, and meat) than their daily requirements. Many scientific studies show that the people who consume animal base high protein diet have lots of calcium in their urine but not in the people who use vegetarian diet.
The protein in animal products (such as milk, cheese or meat) is more acidic than the vegetable protein. The body neutralizes extra acid associated with animal protein by drawing calcium from bones. This causes calcium deficiency in the bones causing diseases like osteoporosis for the people who consume dairy or meat products. Also their kidneys have to work harder to remove the waste of calcium that leached from bones to blood. The net result is that the people who consume animal base high protein diet lose the calcium from their bones and their kidneys are more susceptible to fail.
Vegetarians get enough protein from their diet but not in excess. Also the vegetable protein is less acidic than animal protein; hence it does not leach calcium from bones. So the calcium absorbed by consuming dark green vegetables and other vegetarian sources is maintained by the bones at a much healthier rate. The end result is vegetarians who get their calcium from nonanimal sources such as dark green vegetables develop stronger bones, not weaker ones. Hence they do not find calcium in their urine. Many scientific evidences indicated that milk is not essential for strong bones.
