tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31560408.post1702596455923156671..comments2008-05-06T18:43:55.485+01:00Balabhadra dashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08956476914184793775noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31560408.post-75632565092305797392008-05-06T18:43:00.000+01:002008-05-06T18:43:00.000+01:00Nice to hear that we care about cows. How many of us have thought about the cows forced to endure a life of unspeakable suffering in the commercial dairy industry? Forced to overproduce milk and made sick with rBGH regular injections; regularly artificially inseminated so that they always lactate only to perpetually have their beloved calves torn away from them at birth; and when they are too crippled and sick to keep producing milk, sent to brutal slaughter and turned into hamburger. <BR/><BR/>Did you know that spent dairy cows are the primary source of ground beef? Did you know that a cow's normal lifespan exceeds 20 years, yet since it is unprofitable to keep cows alive once their milk production declines, they are normally killed at 5-6 years old?<BR/><BR/>Devotees support this cruelty industry every time we purchase dairy, something all the temples without their own Krishna farm regularly participate in.<BR/><BR/>In supporting the dairy industry, we also support the horrors of the veal industry because this is the fate for calves torn away from their mothers at birth who are not slaughtered immediately, just to satisfy our taste for their mother's milk. A taste even less natural for us than a taste for our own species' milk when we are no longer children.<BR/><BR/>Difficult for some to believe that we really care about cows when we regularly and tangibly support with our dollars the commercial dairy industry. Difficult to believe when we choose milk from sacred cow's to drink in preference to delicious healthy alternatives like soymilk, rice milk, oat milk, hemp milk or almond milk!<BR/><BR/>I wonder what percent of the milk devotees consume comes from our own farms and how much greater a percent comes from the cruelty industry.<BR/><BR/>Much easier to dismiss all this suffering we cause cows and just believe that our victims will be rewarded with a better reincarnation. I think that instead we can do better!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com