The situation in a modern dairy farm is no less grim. Most newborn calves are
forcibly removed from their mothers within 12 hours so that milking can
begin. This separation is extremely distressing to both the mother and
her calf. They often call for each other for days. Then, the calf will
spend the first 2-3 months trapped alone in a small pen and fed special milk replaces engineered to fatten them up for production as quickly as possible.
Once
they are old enough to lactate, they begin a cycle of forced impregnation that
takes an increasingly heavy toll on their bodies. When production declines
around age four or five — less than a quarter of their natural lifespan — most
dairy cows are unceremoniously slaughtered and sold for meat.
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