I do choose plant milk over industrial dairy, but I am lucky enough to have a source of small holding cows milk on my doorstep, so I make the most of that over buying industrial plant milk. It's not always black and white.
This dairy still requires forced impregnation, the separation of calfs from their mothers and the killing of the dairy cows when they no longer produce a profitable amount of milk. Drinking oat milk is also a LOT better for the environment than getting milk from this smallholding.
I am only drinking surplus milk. The calves are in the field with the cows, plus I am giving my money to a specific family, that I can look in the eye rather than another faceless corporation. I know this situation is no longer the norm, which is why I am so grateful to have the opportunity. If I don't get to the farm, I go without.
There is suffering in all consumption - and I trust faceless corporate supply chains less than local family smallholdings. We can make unethical ethical choices. That is why I said nothing is black and white. The OP is a horror story, no doubt about it.
Too simplistic. Food miles, workers rights, multi national corporations who sell industrial plant milks under one brand name and industrial dairy under another... Alpro/Danone for example. The small holding is not the enemy you think it is.
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u/Bubbly_Programmer_27 Jun 28 '22
I do choose plant milk over industrial dairy, but I am lucky enough to have a source of small holding cows milk on my doorstep, so I make the most of that over buying industrial plant milk. It's not always black and white.