Nice false appeal to hypocrisy to deflect away from the issue of animal exploitation, and blatant whataboutism. 2 wrongs don’t make a right. That’s a terrible argument.

“Hey, stop beating kids!”

“BuT I sAw yOu UsInG a SmArTpHoNe!”

So as per your own admission (pretty much any device you could be using), that’s essentially unavoidable in the current world we live in if you want to be a functional person. Are animal products avoidable? Yes.

That said, I bought my phone second hand from someone who doesn’t have an incentive or means to sell more. So I did not financially support any of the practices involved in the production. And only once it breaks down completely, my next phone will be a Fairphone, which is essentially the only ethical phone and didn’t exist when I got my current phone. What’s your next argument? Oh wait, all the arguments against veganism/defending animal exploitation are just bad faith, rubbish attempts to avoid addressing your own behaviour anyway.

Am I a robot? No, I’m not going to reply on every comment. I guess you care more about nonsense arguments than animals, the planet and your health.

I don’t use Facebook lol. I’m glad we agree that dairy farming causes severe suffering for cows and their calves, hugely impacts climate change, and that we need to stop doing it for their own benefit, and ours.

All of these practices still definitely happen on various farms around the world, especially in factory farming, and the worst of them are the standard practice. For example, cows make breast milk for their baby calves, not for humans. It’s exploitation by its very nature for humans to steal that milk. In almost all cases, the calves are denied the milk, separated from their mothers and killed for veal. Cows are artificially inseminated to keep them continually pregnant to produce milk, and have been selectively bred to overproduce so much that it very often causes them mastitis, lameness, spinal issues and destroys their bodies over time; sometimes they collapse completely. Once they can no longer produce milk, they too are killed for cheap beef at only 4-6 years old when they can live until 20-25. Any exception to this is rare, still involves immense harm to cows and calves, and can’t provide enough dairy for everyone (especially for cheese, which uses 10x as much milk than milk itself).

Dairy farming is unsustainable and cruel, and the products are unhealthy for humans and contribute to inflammation and disease. Lactose intolerance in adulthood was the natural state of humans for a reason. The lactose persistent gene is an unnatural adaptation and doesn’t prevent the health impacts of dairy.

Taking our anger out on innocent animals and harming the environment and your own health because of a comment on the internet is the sign of a strong mind.

By consuming dairy, you’re funding these abuses done to innocent dairy cows:

1. Restraint / Restricted movement

2. Repeated Artificial insemination (anal and vaginal rape, sexual abuse) and forced pregnancies

3. Electroejaculation (Forced ejaculation, anal rape, sexual abuse)

4. Dehorning / debudding (cutting / burning off horns, without anesthetic)

5. Ear tagging (no anesthetic)

6. Tail docking (cutting off the tail, no anesthetic)

7. Branding (no anesthetic)

8. Nose ringing (to prevent the baby calve from suckling, no anesthetic)

9. Udder singe (burning an udder to remove the hair, no anesthetic)

10. High stocking density (cramped, unhygienic conditions, infections go untreated, shit everywhere)

11. Cannibalism (Blood and Bone Meal, How do you think Mad Cow started?)

12. Separation from child (calves) immediately after birth (so we can get that milk)

13. Killing of calves immediately if deemed unprofitable (throat slit alive, bolt to head, hammered to death)

14. Veal calves (Social deprivation, tight confinement, and restricted movement [to keep the meat tender], killed at 4-6 months of age)

15. Growth Hormones and antibiotics

16. Induced milk production through selective breeding and hormones (Leads to mastitis, milk fever, early death)

17. Pre-Slaughter Transportation and Starvation (Exposed to elements in extreme winter cold and summer heat, purposefully starved to decrease risk of fecal contamination)

18. The murder of someone who does not want to die (bolt in the head, throat slit, skinned alive)

19. Killed at only 5 years old on average (natural lifespan is 20 years)

Cows milk is for baby cows!

If you dislike these practices, you can easily stop funding them by going vegan.