I don’t drink milk. It grosses me out. I do care about that fact that we inject hormones and inseminate cows to stimulate their milk production (lactation), but that’s just one of the many reasons why I don’t drink milk. It’s way more than whether it’s organic or not.
In fact, whether it’s cow’s milk, goats or sheep’s, milk just grosses me out.
Imagine women are being milked, and then their milk is used to feed cattle. Does this picture seem weird to you? Why is it okay for us (humans, being a different species), milking other species (cows, for example) and drinking their mammary secretion, but not the other way around? Cows don’t secrete milk for other species’ consumption, do they? Do we really need the antibodies from cows?
I think if we ‘have’ to drink milk, we should drink human’s milk.
Oh, but then again, humans are the only mammals that consume milk after infant stage… why do we drink milk?
Let’s add more this picture: injecting hormones to women, inseminating women to make them constantly produce milk in high quantity, and maybe attaching mechanical pump to their breasts. Do you want to drink some human’s milk, cattle?
For communities or eras that do not have enough food supply, I could understand why they would resort to drinking milk. And I have no problem with that. But for those of us who live with an abundance of food resources and nutrition, do we really need to drink milk?
Picture from wired.com.