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- From: la1002@albnyvms.bitnet (Clover M.)
- Subject: Re: Milk allergies
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.185827.13102@sarah.albany.edu>
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- Organization: University of NY at Albany
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- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 92 18:58:27 GMT
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- Not eating dairy products for ethical reason has many reasons.
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- First, by supporting the dairy industry, you are indirectly supporting
- the beef and veal industry. After all, milk is from pregnant cows,
- who give birth to approximately half male calves and half female.
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- The female ones are kept to raise for milking, the males are primarily
- sold for meat. Even if a dairy farm didn't use artificial insemination.
- which most do, it would be economically STUPID to keep all of the male
- steer, when you only need a few for a whole farm of females.
-
- Next is the environment of the dairy farm itself. I have seen small,
- family run dairies that still hand milk and know the cows personally.
- Most, though, are huge milk factories where the cows and calves are mistreated
- The calves are usually (almost always) separated from their mothers at the
- age of a few days old, and only fed gruel, instead of their mother's milk.
-
- Other reasons to not consume dairy include the fact that many people,
- including the vast majority of Nigerians (99%, I believe), most Asians,
- and a large percentage of Caucasians, among others, are sensitive or allergic to
- oops!
- Lactose.
-
- If you need more information, rec.food.veg may have what you are looking
- for. Many of the people who post there are vegan (no meat, no dairy,
- no eggs, some people even include honey in the restricted foods)
-
-
- Clover
- la1002@albnyvms.bitnet
- This is my very first sig.file
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