Dairy cow

There is probably more suffering in a glass of milk or an ice cream cone than there is in a steak. Here is why dairy is not vegan. Dairy industry is the meat industry. Majority of people think it doesn't hurt a cow to be milked, but in reality, it does. Dairy is not kind and innocent, but cruel, violent and exploitative.

Facts
The Independent revealed Coombe Farm in Somerset:
 * All cows must be pregnant in order to produce milk, they cannot produce milk spontaneously without pregnancy hormones.
 * 21,000,000 dairy calves are slaughtered for veal or cheap beef.
 * 95,000 of them are in the UK alone, according to a report by Viva! in 2015.
 * ~500,000 of them are in Australia alone, according to Bear Witness Australia.
 * Pus (the creamy white stuff that oozes from wounds) or somatic cells, is often in cow's milk because many cows will suffer from mastitis, a painful inflammation of the udders.
 * The UK legally allows 40 million cells per litre, for human consumption.
 * The average somatic cell count in US milk per spoonful is 1,120,000.
 * Has given dead cows to the local hunt, as free food for hounds; shocking the consumers, as they didn't know they were indirectly supporting fox hunts.
 * Distressed newborn calves struggling as workers shoved feeding tubes down their throats
 * A calf thrown to the ground and slapped in the face during force-feeding
 * A worker standing on a calf with his full body weight, shouting: You f******. . .s***
 * Cows agitated and trying to intervene as calves call out in distress
 * A newborn calf dragged by its back legs into a separation pen away from its mother
 * Several cows with their back legs chained together in shackles

Health facts

 * According to a report published in the British Medical Journal in 1943, between 1912 and 1937 some 65,000 people died of tuberculosis contracted from consuming milk in England and Wales alone.