She's not a milk machine.

She's someone's mother, someone's daughter.

They keep her in a tiny stall and use her as a piece of property.

They'll take away all of her children.

At age six they'll kill her, even though she'd naturally live to be twenty.*

Dairy cows spend years in a concrete stall or filthy feed lot before they dry up and are sent to slaughter. Calves are quickly separated from their mothers, confined in tiny pens, and killed for veal.

*From Joanne and Vincent's blog. See entire brochure here.

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So You're a Vegetarian?

"There is no distinction between meat and other animal products. Animals used for dairy are kept alive longer, treated at least as badly as animals used for meat, and end up in the same slaughterhouse. There is probably more suffering in a glass of milk than in a pound of steak."

Gary Francione, scholar of law and philosophy at Rutgers University School of Law. Visit his website: www.abolitionistapproach.com.

Cows Do Not "Give" Milk

Cows, like humans, produce milk for their babies, period.

In order to continue milk production, dairy farmers force cows year after year to go through an endless cycle of pregnancy and birth.

In order to impregnate the cow, a technician will insert his arm far into the cow's rectum to position the uterus, then forces an instrument into her vagina. The restraining apparatus is commonly called a rape rack.

Once her baby is born, that baby is the only thing the mother cow wants. Normally peaceful and docile, she puts up a fight when her child is taken from her. Who wouldn't?

Both the cow and the calf cry out for each other as they are being separated.

If her child is born male, he will slaughtereed for veal. If her child is born female, she will live her life as her mother - impregnated, babies taken away, and killed at a very young age for hamburger. Yes, cows raised for their milk end up being slaughtered very young.

You can live your life knowing that you do not contribute to this endless suffering by simply living a plant-based, vegan diet. It's that simple.

Read more at Happy Cows: Beyond the Myth.

I Don't Eat Chickens (but I do eat eggs). What's Wrong with That?

The eggs sold in grocery stores today come from chickens who live their lives so intensively confined inside a wire "battery" cage, she can barely even move.

She can not flap her wings, perch, dust bathe, let alone build a nest. It is an unnatural in unacceptable business.

The Virtual Battery Cage (below) was created by Animal Visuals to help visualize this extreme and unnecessary intensive confinement system from the perspective of one of its victims

"I Only Buy Humane Meat and Eggs"

There is no such thing as "humane" slaughter. There is no such thing as "humane" animal expolitation. Kinder, gentler exploitation is not the answer. Words like humane and free range, if anything, only encourage more animal use.

Visit HumaneMyth.org.

Change starts with you. Go vegan. Lives depend on it.

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