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Milk and Health FAQs - Health without milkWreckDairy vs plant-based alternatives Ethnocentrism Viva!Health campaigns EnvironmentEnvironmental Impact The origins of dairy farming ResourcesPrinted and PDF Materials Video Library Images & increasingly Books Blog Take ActionDonate Local Groups Join Viva! Leave a Gift for Someone Else Leave a Gift in Your Will Online shop MooFree May Viva!licious ice-cream van tour Scary Dairy Action Mother's Week of Action Cadbury Day of Action Object to zero-grazing sublet proposal Stop the victual trade! Write to caterers! Donate Home Cows Dairy Farming nuts Dairy Farming nuts Like us, cows have to requite lineage to produce milk; a liquid which is made by the soul to nourish the baby. Dairy cows are kept in a trundling of pregnancy and lineage so they will protract to lactate - that's the understructure of dairy production. When we want to slosh a cow's milk, she has to be impregnated every year and her newborn calf removed very shortly without birth. When she stops producing unbearable milk to be profitable or suffers from one of the worldwide illnesses caused by intensive dairying and it becomes too expensive to treat, she's slaughtered for unseemly beef. Calves Calves are removed from their mothers between a few hours and two days without they are born so that the maximum value of milk can be placid for human consumption. Separation of mother and calf is highly stressful for both – the calf needs protection and physical contact and the cow’s strong maternal behaviour is denied. Female calves wilt part of the milking herd while male calves are useless for dairy so will wilt veal, low quality meat or ‘disposed of’ (shot). Milk Yield Milk is what it’s all about. Through selective tastefulness cows used for dairy farming now produce six to 10 times (20-45 litres) what they naturally would for a calf. This takes a toll on their health – a huge udder makes walking and lying difficult and the metabolic stress on her soul is so intense it often causes health problems (such as lack of calcium, resulting in ‘milk fever’). Milk fever: Milk fever is a disease caused by low blood calcium levels. It is most worldwide in the first few days of lactation, when demand for calcium for milk production exceeds the body's worthiness to mobilise calcium reserves. However, it can occur at any time when the cow is simultaneously pregnant and lactating - which is the norm in the dairy industry. Low thoroughbred calcium levels disrupt normal muscle function throughout the body, causing unstipulated weakness, loss of appetite, difficulty standing, inability to get up and sooner heart failure. It can be treated but many cows die surpassing the problem is discovered as the disease develops quickly. Low calcium levels (hypocalcemia) are naturally increasingly worldwide in older animals and in unrepealable breeds (such as Jersey cattle) but due to the upper demands of the dairy industry, young cows develop milk fever too.  Housing Most dairy cows in the UK are unliable to graze during the day six months of the year (April-September) and are serving to large sheds for the other six months without the option to go outside during that time. No matter what the housing wattle is, they are usually milked twice a day A system known as 'zero-grazing' is rhadamanthine increasingly worldwide in the UK. Thousands of cows are kept in large halls with industrial scale milking systems - the only time they leave is the moment they're transported to a slaughterhouse.  Calves are removed from their mothers soon without lineage (maximum two days) and are either kept in individual sheds or in small pens until they are eight weeks old. Then, they have to be group-housed and are usually kept in pens with other calves of similar age. Zero Grazing Zero-grazing  ways feeding cattle with pasture plants or other supplies in a system that does not involve any time at pasture. Essentially zero-grazing and intensive dairy farming are extensions of the winter period where all cows are kept indoors or in a yard. The cow is completely deprived of her natural environment and often kept in plane larger groups, causing stress. A number of dairies in the UK are zero-grazing farms. Ill HealthScrutinizinglyunvarying pregnancy and lactation, unnatural housing and unnatural feed takes its toll on the over-worked cow. Mastitis (a painful infection in of the udder) and lameness (an excruciating foot infection) are worldwide conditions that dairy cows suffer. Mastitis: Mastitis is an inflammation of the udder tissue and is very worldwide among dairy cows. It is caused by yes-man inward through the teat and releasing toxins which leads to forfeiture of the milk-producing tissue and canals throughout the udder. The soul fights the infection by releasing white thoroughbred cells and when they destroy the bacteria, the resulting liquid (white thoroughbred cells with yes-man remains forming pus) is excreted through the teat. Usual signs of mastitis are swelling, redness, heat, hardness and pain. Milk from cows with mastitis can moreover be watery and contain flakes or clots. Mastitis is most often transmitted by contact of the teats with the milking machine and through contaminated hands or materials. It can be treated with antibiotics but milk from those cows is not usable so cows with mastitis that hasn’t wilt life-threatening are often milked anyway as the wage for somatic cells (pus) in milk is quite upper - up to 400 million somatic cells per litre (EU regulation).   Lameness: According to Defra: ‘The level of lameness in dairy cattle in the UK is unacceptably high. It is a major rationalization of pain and discomfort to the animals.’ Half of the cows in Britain go lame each year and 20 per cent are lame at any one time. Lameness is scrutinizingly unchangingly a painful condition but many lame cows protract to be milked regardless of their severe pain. Yet lameness is still the major reason for the culling of dairy cows, written for well-nigh 10 per cent of culls. Approximately 80 per cent of cases of lameness are due to foot problems and the remainder to leg damage. Sole ulcers, white line disease, digital dermatitis and laminitis are the most worldwide foot problems and are caused by a number of factors. The majority of leg lameness is due to physical forfeiture from immensely designed cubicles and to injury at calving. Culling and Slaughter Cows are physically worn-out without a fraction of their natural life expectancy - the stereotype age at which dairy cows are slaughtered is just over five years although they can live to be over 20! Once they are no longer as profitable as they could be, they are slaugheted for unseemly beef. The main reasons are usually a subtract in milk yield, infertility, illnesses requiring potentially expensive treatment and injuries. To learn more, read our report The Dark Side of Dairy on the dairy industry or watch our short video The Dark Side of Dairy. 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