Part 11: Milk and Eggs

The sages said: “more than the calf wishes to suck, the cow wants to suckle”.
The act of suckling is something God created as part of the nature of all mammals and just like any other mammal, a cow produces milk only after being pregnant and giving birth. The cow’s milk is produced, just like any other mother, for its baby.

Since milk production only starts after birth, cows are manually inseminated and their babies are cruelly taken away from them immediately after birth. Despite that a cow’s life in nature is around twenty years, dairy cows are sent to slaughter at the age of five as they become less productive.

The exploitation of the mother’s body and treating her like a product is not limited to cows and milk.

A chicken in nature would lay about thirty eggs per year. Today, we manipulate them lay about three hundred eggs per year. The chickens are inserted into small cages without the ability to spread their wings, they stand on metal wires their entire lives and when their egg production rate slows at two years old they are killed by electrocution although they could live fifteen years.

Male chicks are thrown into grinders and ground to death on the day they are born.

Milk and egg production involves a great tsaar baalei chayim, even more than the meat industry.