On Saturday veggie and vegan campaigning group VIVA asked local activists in the UK to hold awareness raising stalls to highlight ‘Britains hardest working mother’ the cow in readiness for mothering Sunday.Cows in the milk industry are artificially inseminated on a regular basis. This is because to keep milk flowing the cow must have a calf. The calves are snatched away from their mother at only a young age and she will cry out in an attempt to find them. The female calves’ face the same fate as their mothers. The males are either shot (sometimes in front of each other) or are taken on long journeys overseas often for veal production. The veal crate is now banned however a system called ‘group housing’ is now used.
When milk production levels go down cows in the dairy industry themselves are killed.
