Cruelty-free milk

Time for a change!

Ahimsa is a charity I've been involved with for the last month or so. They are calling to prohibit the sale of all non-organic milk in the UK's five biggest supermarket chains (namely Tesco's Sainsbury's, Waitrose, Morrisons and Asda).

Ultimately, they want to see cruelty-free milk production where cows are allowed to live out their lives naturally and bullocks aren't slaughtered at birth.

Please sign the petition and help us take the first step towards cruelty-free milk...
http://www.thelotustrust.org/petition.php

We need 10'000 signitures, so if you guys helped me out I would actually love you for 79 years.

Please subscribe to the Ahimsa blog (written by me)
http://happyhealthycows.blogspot.com/

Join the Facebook group
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=40685205814&ref=mf

Join the myspace page
http://www.myspace.com/happyhealthycows

And we'll be uploading videos via our Ahimsa YouTube Channel
http://www.youtube.com/ahimsacows

Thankyou SO much guys
I'll have a new vid up soon =)

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TO MEAT EATERS
I know you probably don't care about this. To you I say please just go and watch Earthlings and see if you feel the same in about half an hour.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6361872964130308142

TO VEGETARIANS
You'll appreciate this more than anyone. Drinking milk from slaughtered cows is contributing to the meat industry. We don't want to be hypocritical so lets put a stop to it! =)

TO VEGANS
You are wonderful compassionate people, please continue to be so. I know organic milk isn't perfect, but its a step in the right direction. We have to move one step at a time. The main thing is we improve conditions for the animals and stop treating them like pieces of... well, meat.

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Nonprofits & Activism

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• ahimsa
• milk
• cruelty
• free
• cows
• organic

[none22100]

Ahimsa is the doctrine that holds that all forms of life are sacred and urges the avoidance of violence. Taking milk from a mother cow is inherently violent. Don't believe me? Just google "male calves" and see what is done to the babies that are denied their mother's milk so that people can "enjoy" it. Organic only refers to the animal feed, it has no bearing on how the animals are treated. Additionally, milk cows are cruelly slaughtered at the end of their lives. How is any of that "ahimsa?"

[themanwhoknew]

I'm hungry.....

...for humans!!

[rainbowsalads]

every ounce of milk sold should be traceable back to the farm, where the consumer can visit if they wish or visit on-line. With no hidden underground production facilities just to make money. Or just make almond milk cheaper and stop raping animals.

[YesIamJames]

Organic is such a vauge word, what exactly will this include. Chemical fertilisers aren't nessasarily bad.

This video is just showing the most extreme example, most dairy farms I've seen are nothing like that.

Unfortunately it's very difficult to both treat animals well and also feed over 6bn.

One answer may be artifical meat and possibly milk grown in labs, even peta is behind this

[rugbychewie]

That proposal is massively expensive. I am certainly not going to pay for it.

[JCB411abuser]

@RedPsycho666 plus forgot to mention that a milking machine doesn't work like a hoover, the cup holds the liner, the inside is vacuumed in so the liner squeezes the teat of the cow to extract the milk, and then the outside of the liner is vacuumed out to release the teat and let the milk down, it's actually alot gentler than milking by hand.

[JCB411abuser]

@3finker you are such an idiot, the cow doesn't care, all it wants is to eat sleep shit piss sleep and eat and drink, you know why???? because they know no better, same as a human wouldn't if our society worked the same way, and the reason why we have different cultures beliefs and morals. they might call for it for half an hour at most, soon as they eat the don't care.

[JCB411abuser]

@middy444 you have no idea, the majority of what cows eat we could not digest so YOU think before you type. go do some research into the actual diet of a dairy cow, visit a farm and see.

[middy444]

@JCB411abuser the food that is fed to animals on factory farms could feed the starving. Think before you type.

[middy444]

In the process of giving up dairy, I'm doing well! Also giving up meat and then veganising myself asap. I'm on the path!

[3finker]

Milk is madness, Why? because its linked to Leukaemia, Cancer, Diabetes, Heart Disease etc; look up the videos by Scientists & Doctors. To make milk pay farmers breed cows with colossal udders and take their calves away after 24 hours, the cows then grieve and bellow at the farm gate, suffering mental trauma. Its unlikely farmers will see Ahimsa dairy as viable unless cows produce far more than the calf needs; which "still" leads to lameness, disease and an earlier death. Milk Always Sucks.