“In order to maintain uninterrupted milk production, cows are forced year after year to go through an endless cycle of pregnancy and birth, only to have their calves immediately taken from shortly thereafter. Every single time this separation happens, the mother cows and their calves cry out for each other as they are pulled apart … Both end up mourning each others’ absence for weeks.

All forms of dairy farming involve forcibly impregnating cows, most often requiring a human farm worker to insert his or her arm far into the cow’s rectum in order to position the uterus, and then forcing an insemination instrument into her vagina. The restraining apparatus used to keep the cow still during this violation is commonly called a “rape rack.”

After just 4 to 6 years, the bodies of dairy cows are “spent” from being forced to over-produce milk. Often weak and ill, they are then forced to endure an overcrowded transport to the slaughterhouse, and a violent death once they arrive there. If they were allowed to exist free of exploitation, abuse and slaughter, cows can live up to 25 years or more.” ~ unknown