Risks of Dairy Products and Problems Withing the Dairy Industry

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This project is to spread awareness of the health risks involved in the consumption of dairy products, as well as the inhumane treatment of the animals. People do not realize how dairy cows and their calves are treated and the cruelty and devastation they face. Many people believe that dairy products are good for your body and can help prevent osteoporosis and other ailments, when in fact they do much more harm than good for your body. Most doctors will not endorse milk products, but rather the Dairy Farming Industry does. Most people consider milk and other dairy products ethical, humane, and/or nutritious, but products made from cow's milk are far from. Milk is an unnatural food for humans to consume. ...

... to make them go into heat within days of giving birth so that they can almost immediately be impregnated again. When her calves are born, females are saved to become dairy cows, and males are chained inside crates so cramped they cannot even turn around for 16 to 20 weeks, only to be killed for veal, and the milk meant for them in consumed by humans. Their four stomachs are also used in cheese making because they contain rennin, an enzyme used to curdle milk. In nature, cows typically live between 20 and 25 years, but a genetically altered dairy cow forced to produce more milk than naturally intended is useless for milk production after four

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