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3. Animals used to graze in open field 3. Animals are confined in one single
location.
The romantic image of cows grazing in lush meadows and happily returning home to be milked is becoming a phenomenon of the past as dairy production intensified.
4. Use of natural ways to increase 4. Use of Oxitocin injection and other animal milk supply drugs/chemicals to increase milk supply.
In the villages they practise phukan. A stick is poked into the cow's uterus and wiggled, causing her intense pain. Villagers believe this leads to more milk.
It is difficult to imagine the cruel practices employed by mankind to increase milk production.
5. Extracting milk with human hands, 5. Dairy uses machines to extract milk. aided by touch and reflexes
While the human hands and heart knows when to stop when it pains to the animal, milk extracting machines cannot feel pain. At times, blood and
other fluids also get
extracted
along with milk.
6. The calf always has the first right for 6. Calves are being separated from
its mother's milk
their mothers immediately on birth. The enormous pain suffered by mother and child on being separated just after childbirth is unimaginable. This is done as it would be a loss to dairy if the cow's milk is consumed by the calf.
