Interestingly they are not necessarily against drinking milk, as milking an animal is viewed similarly to harvesting a fruit. Though its my understanding that they may still object to industrial milk production.
In traditional agriculture, you just feed, house and care for an animal, and when its young stops drinking milk, you keep milking the mother so it doesn’t stop making milk.
I can’t see any suffering in that.
Industrialized milk production is a complete perversion of that. It’s what happens when you take a symbiotic relationship and add Capitalism.
There is a religion called Jainism that actually tries to avoid harming even tiny organisms and plants. As such they avoid eating things like root vegetables that require the entire plant to be killed in order to harvest them.
Interestingly they are not necessarily against drinking milk, as milking an animal is viewed similarly to harvesting a fruit. Though its my understanding that they may still object to industrial milk production.
In traditional agriculture, you just feed, house and care for an animal, and when its young stops drinking milk, you keep milking the mother so it doesn’t stop making milk.
I can’t see any suffering in that.
Industrialized milk production is a complete perversion of that. It’s what happens when you take a symbiotic relationship and add Capitalism.