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Dairy cows are overworked
Madam, With Mother's Day fast approaching, thoughts rightly turn to all those hard working mums. Well, please spare a thought for Britain's hardest working mother – the dairy cow.
She suffers the dual burden of being milked while pregnant seven months of the year.
Cows – just like human mothers – produce milk to feed their babies, and she produces up to 120 exhausting pints a day.
For us to drink that milk the baby is taken away from her – year after year.
Imagine the heartache if that was your child? The only thanks she gets after five years of service is to be sent to the slaughterhouse when her productivity drops.
Unbelievably, things are set to get worse for this most over-worked of all farmed animals.
Britain is fast adopting the American zero-grazing system as a way of squeezing every last drop out of Britain's dairy cows. A new unit in Lincolnshire is set to house over 8,000 cows – and if this goes ahead it will be the first of many that might spring up in your area.
Give Britain's hardest working mother a break this year – say "No!" to dairy.
For more on Britain's intensive dairy farming visit www.milkmyths.org.uk and for lots of cruelty-free vegan recipe ideas visit www.viva.org.uk/recipes.
Juliet Gellatley
Viva!
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