Industrial-scale murder: milk production’s blood-soaked secret  

I would like to thank Jenny Moxham for her exposition of the dairy industry, though the truth is even more horrific than she dares write. It’s a heinous crime from beginning to end. The only time in its life that a dairy cow is free from abuse and suffering is when its heart stops and its lungs cease breathing. Right up to that point its short life is one of abject misery that’s hidden from the public with propaganda.
The popular image promoted by the Dairy Council of Great Britain is one of serenity, where the animals peacefully offer their milk to nourish the noble human being. In blunt terms milk production starts with wilful murder. Male calves are unwanted and thrown to hounds to devour. Females are retained to suffer the same fate as their mother, who cries out for days when her babies are torn away from her care and denied their mother’s milk.
A cow’s milk sack in its natural state should be barely visible. The milk is intended specifically for its babies until weaned, as with all mammals. On dairy farms the milk sacks are the size of two footballs due to incessant, forced production. Their teats are injected with penicillin to control disease caused through crowding of animals in unsanitary conditions. This remains in the milk together with puss, chemicals, and hormones to increase production while causing greater suffering.
After years of this misery, the poor creature is rewarded for the money it created with a bullet, if it is lucky. In the production of kosher and halal meat, it is bolted into a metal frame, has its throat slashed and is left to die slowly, eyes wide open, soaked in its own blood. 
The sick irony is that humans have absolutely no nutritional need for cow’s milk. The horrendous cruelty continues for no other reason than the promotion of an industry in the interests of employment and money. For further details readers might want to consult the book “Milk is Poison”, authored by scientist Robert Cohen.
I write having had hands-on experience in the industry in the UK and Spain and as a former area officer for Compassion in World Farming (CIWF).
JC Wilcox