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roguetrick@lemmy.world 4 days agoThat’s absolutely incorrect. It’s a significant amount of time, around 10 months, but you have to repeatedly get a cow pregnant over their useful life in order to continue getting milk from them.
davidagain@lemmy.world 4 days ago
I stand corrected.
Gloomy@mander.xyz 4 days ago
This is btw one main reason why milk is murder, because many of those calves are often killed for their meat. The other reason is that cows stop beeing productive and are killed way before their natural death, since the replacement calves are rdy to go (I think it was something like after 5 years with their natural life span beeing around 25, but I’m not sure if I remember correctly).
A bit oversimplified, but just to add a bit more context why vegans don’t drink milk.
davidagain@lemmy.world 4 days ago
At least 50% of them are killed - very, very few males make it to adulthood.
commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 days ago
this is incorrect
Ardyssian@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
What about plant-based milk such as Soy Bean Milk - would that work as a suitable less resource intensive alternative?
prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
Plant based alternates aren’t necessarily better for the environment or use less resources but they do get around the animal cruelty part.
They’re just usually woefully terribly for the environment in their farming and production.
commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 days ago
“many” is doing a lot of lifting here.
the majority of Castle are slaughtered at full weight. hardly any become veal
davidagain@lemmy.world 4 days ago
The majority are killed at 18 months for meat (equivalent of about 6 in human age) once they’ve put on enough weight. “Veal” is if they’re killed under 12 months, which is rarer, but adulthood is a couple of years later, and yes, not just many of the calves, almost all of the male ones.