Like humans and other mammals, mother cows must become pregnant to produce milk. Mother cows and their calves experience stress when separated soon after birth on dairy farms.
The production of cow’s milk creates three times as much greenhouse gas emissions and uses up to twenty times as much freshwater compared to plant-based milks.
Male calves born on dairy farms are commonly taken and kept in cramped crates since they cannot produce milk. After several weeks in isolation, they are killed and sold as “veal.”
