A hot cup of tea, an evening coffee, after dinner sweets, a big bowl of ice-cream- comfort food such as these have been so persuasively knitted into our lives that we overlook a simple fact - its real cost. You might be surprised to know:
- For a cow to produce milk, she needs to be impregnated. This is done artificially under the harshest of conditions.
- Most cows are genetically modified to yield 25x their natural milking capacity. Contrary to popular belief, this is extremely painful.
- There is almost no veterinary care at dairy farms and tabelas, thus animals are given over the counter anti-biotics to cope, which one ingests while consuming their milk.
- Male calves are either left to starve or kept alive to be sold for illegal slaughter.
