Ethical questions about milk?

Yes. Almost 1/5 of the beef in the U.S. comes from dairy cows that are culled when they're ill or stop producing. They are not all just sent out to pasture. Their male babies are also used for meat. Cows are kept in a cycle of pregnancy to make them keep producing milk. When the calves come, they are either go on to become new milk cows or meat such as veal. It's part of the business. Cows are bred to produce an unnatural amount of milk. Now scientists have mapped the cow's genome and are looking for ways to increase production even more. Cows in the west are milked late into pregnancy, which increases the estrogen and raises serious health questions due to this. a href="http://harvardmagazine.com/2007/05/modern-milk.html" rel="nofollow"http://harvardmagazine.com/2007/05/moder…/a Two years ago, the Humane Society pointed out that the dairy industry was selling their sick and injured cows, and they were going to slaughter that way. It caused the biggest beef recall in U.S. history. The way milk is produced in modern intensive industrialized farming is unethical. Unfortunately, it's not just farmer Joe with a bucket and stool.