As consumers get more and more savvy, they’re ditching dairy foods faster than you can say ‘soya cheese’.
From health benefits to concern for animals, here are seven reasons why the white stuff is most definitely not the right stuff.
1. We are not baby cows
Cows produce milk for the same reason that humans do – to feed their babies. However, on all dairy farms, including organic ones, calves never taste a drop of their mother’s milk. Instead, they’re torn away from their mothers shortly after birth so that the milk nature intended for them can instead be consumed by humans.
Female calves often share the same cruel fate as their mothers – they’re forcefully impregnated, have their babies torn away from… Read the full story