Why Being a Vegetarian is not enough?

If your main motto behind being a vegetarian is Peace and Non-Violence then, your efforts are not enough. If killing animals is immoral according to you, give it a thought how rape, genetically modifying, restraining the freedom is moral? These are equally immoral. As a vegetarian, people use all dairy products. Milk, ice cream, cheese, butter are being consumed by humans from centuries. Let's get into the details today, how dairy products used in diet is an outcome of immoral practices. 

Dairy Products

Artificial Insemination

Like any human, cows produce milk only when they give birth to young. But the demand for the milk is from humans who can pay for the milk, a good opportunity to make this as a business. But there is a problem cows can give milk only when they give birth, so the first task is to artificially or forcefully impregnate the cow against her will. Logically if this happens to human it is called rape, since it is happening to animals, we call it artificial insemination and it does not look that bad now. 60 percent of dairy cows in U.S. are artificially inseminated. Indian Government in budget 2020 announced to increase the coverage of artificial insemination from 30 percent to 70 percent to increase milk production.

Departing Love

The cow like any humans carries the baby in her stomach for nine months and a strong bond forms between the mother and her baby, like any other mother. If the mother nourishes her baby with milk, what about the demand from humans, so now comes the second task the baby will be taken away from the mother within first three days and the mother will never see her baby again.

Male Calves

The future of the calf depends upon its gender here. If it is a male calf, he will be sold to veal industry. Guess why? apparently veal is more expensive than beef because of its low fat content. Here in veal industry, the calves freedom is restrained by keeping them in tiny wooden or metal boxes, to keep their flesh tender. They have to spend few miserable months here before they are killed. The worst part of this reality is, these calves are not considered as babies but as byproducts from the dairy industry. So clearly, vegetarian's beliefs of them not being part of killing is just cancelled out.

Female Calves

Unfortunately the female calves has to follow her mothers' footsteps. The dairy industry will wait for 15 long months to impregnate this baby, so she will be two years old when she first delivers her baby. The cycle continues. This new mother will be now considered as a new milk machine and will be milked heavily. She will be impregnated, tortured every year until she can no longer produce milk. A cow can live for around 20 years but in dairy industry her life span will be for around 5 to 6 years and then she will be sent to slaughter house.

The deadly dairies also include

These cows are injected with oxytocin, an illegal drug to produce unnaturally large quantities of milk, this results in severe stomach cramps as though they were in labor. These cows will be tied up with short chains to consume less space, in most countries the movement is restrained by rope tied through her nose. Most of these cows suffer skin infections due to untidy environment surrounded by her own excretion. An investigation in India's dairy industries reveals the miserable conditions that cows live in. 

Conclusion

The milk in our glasses is in reality produced by a mother to nourish her baby. Since we demand for dairy products cows and buffaloes go through the cruel treatment. This becomes our moral obligation to understand the reality and stop consuming dairy products. Because, using animals for any reason is questionable and unacceptable and one must abstain from doing so.