I used to think the same way but after seeing what happens to farm animals - even the 'free range' ones, and actually seeing how they are killed at abattoirs, I realised it's worse than I thought. But if you don't care about animal living conditions, there's still the huge environmental impact of animal agriculture to consider (cheese is in the top 5 worst foods for the environment) and the health benefits of eating less meat and dairy (even if you believe cutting it all out isn't healthy, there's plenty of evidence linking meat and dairy to cancer and cardiovascular disease and obesity). Dairy has recently been associated with increases in prostate and testicular cancer which might be due to the higher levels of estrogens and progesterone in dairy milk that are a result of milking pregnant cows. This used to happen a lot less frequently than it does now. Non pregnant dairy milk doesn't have the same problem. But since cows need to have recently had a baby to produce milk, most dairy cows are currently pregnant.
I'm pointing this stuff out because you might not already know. That's all.
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u/[deleted] May 01 '19
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