Namaste
I drink milk, for example I love goat milk. There is also cow milk.
Some vegans think they a good vegans, and they drink milk. But I am now considering a question... Are milk drinkers true vegans?
I know many in India for example give the cow a good life. And they also milk these cows for the milk to drink. The same with goats.
But that is not necessarily the case in the US.
Some "true vegans" are now saying, if you drink commercial milk then you are supporting slavery (of the cow or goat) and thus you are not a true vegan.
Take this article below:
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Factory-farmed dairy cows endure annual cycles of artificial insemination, mechanized milking for 10 out of 12 months (including 7 months of their 9-month pregnancies), and giving birth. On industrialized dairy facilities, these animals are denied nearly all of their natural behaviors and instincts.
Even if dairy cows are "free range" and "organic" (as if that changes what happens to the male calves) ... slavery and early death is *still* wrong.
http://www.vegetarianveganvillage.or...s-slavery.html
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Are such so-called "vegans" who drink commercial milk actually not much better than Bengali Hindus who eat goat, in that these milk drinking vegans are actually supporting slavery of the cow or goat?
Are these cows shown in the link above, slaves?
Om Namah Sivaya
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