Helen spent the last 19 years on a dairy farm. At Uncle Neil’s Home, she experienced her first dust bath, and despite her osteoarthritis, she spends over 12 hours daily on her feet, grazing and feeling the wind.
Ditch dairy!
#dairytruth
This is the sound of 18,000 mothers trapped in a burning barn.
“Stop supporting the confinement, use, and exploitation of our fellow animals. Nothing good ever comes of it.”💔💔💔💔💔💔
via
@TorontoCowSave
📍 Texas
#dairytruth
#milk
If “most dairy farmers treat their animals like family” and “higher welfare = more milk” why is it so easy to find these cruel and horrifying videos?
The abuse is NOT the exception, or a bug, but the fundamental basis of this industry 😢😢
#dairytruth
💔 “For two weeks, our hidden cameras captured the handling and slaughter of hundreds of bobby calves - male dairy calves sold to the slaughterhouse at just five days old because they will never produce milk” 🥛
👉
via
@farmtransparencyproject
IG
This video is going viral right now on Instagram.
If this is hard to watch and/ or causes you to rage, it’s time to reconsider your dairy consumption.
#dairytruth
#milk
#gotmilk
Look at the size of her udders.
Look at the slippery floor.
Look at her bones sticking out.
Is this the price we are willing to pay for some milk and cheese?
Please,
#ditchdairy
.
#dairytruth
A little Irish calves, just over 2-weeks old, sold at a livestock auction in Ireland.
Only to be abused at the control post in northern France, be starved of milk for over 30 hours in one go & end up at a veal farm 3 days later.
via
@Eyes_on_Animals
#dairytruth
#milk
Still wet and barely able to stand.
Confused and frightened.
Stuffed in a tiny cage.
This is the beginning of life for calves in the dairy industry.
Please ditch dairy.
via
@MeatTheVictims
#dairytruth
#milk
It’s winter in the northern hemisphere and this is what it looks like on a dairy farm 😭
“The separation from their mother is animal abuse
To let them stand in a blizzard is criminal”
via
@PieterseMarc
#dairytruth
“This is the
#dairy
industry. 🐄🥛
Look what these mother
#cows
have to go through for our glass of milk, our pieces of cheese, yoghurt, butter icecream. 😔
We don’t have to contribute to this. There are vegan options instead.”
#dairytruth
(repost)
“Dragged to her slaughter 💔”
Once their lactation slows there is only one place to go for cows in the dairy industry …😢
Please ditch dairy.
#dairytruth
#milk
All she got left after 9 months of pregnancy are overflowing udders that have been breed to hold so much milk she can’t barely carry it.
She’ll go through this 4-5 times in her shortened life.
Please, for these mothers,
#ditchdairy
.
📽️
@animalsavemvmt
#dairytruth
This 5.5-year-old cow was thrown out of the cow shed.
Her rear legs are swollen, milk is dripping from her udder teats.
She tries to get up, but she can't.
The vet eventually euthanized her before she was taken to a slaughterhouse.
via
@zviratanejime
#dairytruth
🐮
A mother cow only produces milk for her calf.
Indian dairy farmers using a practice called ‘Khaal baccha’ (‘skin baby’) where a male calf is starved to death and the flesh is removed from its body and stuffed with hay.
via
@alsaceanimalsave
IG
#dairytruth
“One of the many tragedies of
#dairy
: This newborn calf will be separated within the hour.
It is a boy so he will be slaughtered
He will never see his mother again”
via
@PieterseMarc
#dairytruth
Thousand of stressed and confused babies locked away in tiny cages.
No social or physical interaction with their mothers or pears.
No space to move or play.
No way to hide from extreme cold or heat.
Mega dairy is on the rise and this is what it looks like.
#dairytruth
#milk
What you're witnessing isn't an isolated case.
Most dairy farms steal babies away from their mothers shortly after birth so that humans can consume the mother's milk instead.
📹
@TheSaveMovemen1
#ditchdairy
#dairymonth
“Many of the calves we witnessed at Tasmanian Quality Meats were so young that they were unable to stand or walk properly.
These calves are here because they are of no use to the dairy industry - taken from their mothers so that the milk intended for them can be sold to humans.”
Labeled an
"end of career cows: referring to adult female cattle that produce little milk and are destined for slaughter for production reasons."
After a life of exploitation, trapped in a cycle of inseminations, births, separation from their calves, and milking.
#dairytruth
Row after row after row…
…each pen contains a calf, separated from his mother at birth, and confined alone until he is slaughtered for veal at only 18 weeks old.
How can we ignore this senseless cruelty?
💔🐮
🎥
@WeAnimals
@GenV_Eng
Bobby calves at the slaughterhouse.
Every second of every minute of every day they are killed.
One of the many dark sides of dairy farming.
Say no to dairy products ✋ 🛑
⚠️ warning: distressing content ⚠️
Born at the slaughterhouse:
the mother of this poor being is already 🔪 he/she will be next .💔
Please ditch dairy.
#dairytruth
#milk
To ensure a constant supply of milk, the dairy industry impregnates cows shortly after they give birth.
The industry maximizes milk production, prioritizing profit over the natural reproductive and physiological needs of the animals.
Please
#ditchdairy
.
#dairytruth
To you, this may simply be grass...
To them, this is freedom 🥹
These rescue calves have narrowly escaped the grim fate many face when born on dairy farms.
via
@tiltheecowscomehome
#dairytruth
#milk
She was rescued from a local dairy farm.
9 months old,
thin and tiny,
her skin is raw from standing in feces & urine,
her body and face covered in parasites.
😢🐄😢
The beautiful people @ are trying to save her 🙏
#dairytruth
#gotmilk
#milk
❌🐮 From birth, 🥛 calves are born to suffer.
👉
🚨 their world is filled with fear & pain
🚨 their bodies pushed to the breaking point
🚨 their cries unheard behind closed doors
Ditch dairy, for them ❤️🩹🐮
🎥
@AnimalEquality
#dairytruth
#milk
This calf is alive.
This picture doesn’t even show the extent of her urine burns, open sores, and swollen joints that were allowed to fester for weeks at the dairy farm where she laid day after day.
This calf got a name today:
Hazelnut Cosmo
Please ditch dairy, for her ❤️🩹
The fundamental problem with dairy - the separation of mother and calf.
“She will follow her baby till the end of the world. Like any mother will do“
via
@PieterseMarc
#dairytruth
#milk
“Cows are sometimes misunderstood due to their size and what we are often taught about them. However, once you get to know them they can surprise you with their wonderful personalities. 💜🐮”
via
@teamveganfta
#dairytruth
#milk
#veganuary
#februdairy
“These mother cows are forced down a cramped and dirty path towards the milking parlor—the cries of their young confuse and sadden them.
Every day, two times per day.”
#dairytruth
#milk
“I looked into her eyes, and all I saw was fear, terror, and helplessness. 😞
At the slaughterhouse, cows and other animals can sense what is about to happen to them.”
via
@TorontoCowSave
@TheSaveMovemen1
#dairytruth
#milk
You’ll never see a calf jumping and frolicking in the dairy industry, where they are stuffed in tiny pens.
May all cows live freely one day 💙
via
@TorontoCowSave
#dairytruth
#milk
Cows only start to produce milk after they have given birth. The calf is removed quickly, so the mother can be milked.
Please ditch dairy to stop this.
via
@PieterseMarc
#dairytruth
Cows are capable of showing empathy towards other cows in need. They can sense distress and comfort their herd mates, demonstrating their compassionate nature.
#dairytruth
#milk
Milk dumped in fields, a grim reminder of cows caught in a broken system. They endure birthing & loss while their milk goes to waste. This time, in the Upper Midwest, left among chopped rye.
Animals pay the price in a flooded milk market.
👉
#dairytruth
Did you know separating a mother and her calf can negatively affect both?
It can cause emotional distress, disrupt milk production, impact socialization, and even influence their health.
#dairytruth
#milk
#mothersday
“She can’t even lie down comfortably 😢
Disabled by selective breeding for production
There is no welfare there
There is only misery”
via
@PieterseMarc
#dairytruth
Separating newborn calves from their grieving mothers is not an isolated case but a standard practice in the dairy industry 💔
If calves were allowed to be with their mothers, they would drink all their milk, and the dairy industry would cease to exist. 🐮
If you’re drinking
Animals are mothers,
they are sentient beings.
How cruel can we be to rip the bond between a mother and her baby?
That’s the dairy industry.
That’s the meat industry.
#dairytruth
#milk
🐄
“The number of lives destroyed and taken by the
#dairy
industry every day is staggering 💔
The suffering is unimaginable 😢
For products you don’t need and aren’t even healthy for you”
#DitchDairy
#dairytruth
via
@PieterseMarc
After days of exhausting sea transport Irish calves arrive at a Dutch veal farm.
Only able to take a few steps or lie on hard slatted floor. Forever inside.
No mothers .
Nothing to do.
Standard housing for millions of calves.
via
@Eyes_on_Animals
#dairytruth
#milk
⚠️ This is hard to watch! ⚠️
These are little babies and this farmer straps them onto bars right in front of their mothers. 😣😵
These calves are the only ones that have the right to drink the milk, not humans! We don’t it to survive, they do!
Please
#ditchdairy
!
#dairytruth
“Shocking scenes of animal abuse have been recorded at a 500-cow dairy farm in west Wales in our latest farm investigation.
It revealed multiple instances of rough handling, with cows being hit, on average, 75 times per milking.”
via
@vivacampaigns
#dairytruth
#milk
Warning ⚠️
Calf Grafting
Placing the skin of the dead calf over another one to make the mother believe that it is her own child to stimulate milk production or keeping the calf alive for meat or milk too.
Repost
#dairytruth
This is what heat exhaustion looks like for cows. Just *some* of the suffering that we inadvertently inflict on them by consuming
#meat
and
#milk
. Please don't pay for this. 😓💔
Is this the way to treat a lactating mother?
Cows exploited on dairy farms are treated as nothing more than mere milk-producing machines.
via
@animalsavemvmt
#dairytruth
Not a place for a baby!
Animal auctions are the epiphany of commodification of sentient, living beings 😢😡
Please choose compassion! Go vegan!
#dairytruth
#milk
“Every day in the dairy industry newborns are taken from their mothers.
For minutes she stays with the trailer, looking and sniffing at her calf through the bars.
This was the last time she would ever see her baby 💔”
#dairytruth
#milk
via
@farmtransparencyproject
Cows Are Excellent Problem Solvers: 🧠 When faced with obstacles, cows have been observed using their intelligence to find solutions. From figuring out how to access food to navigating challenges, cows showcase their smarts.
#dairytruth
“Terms like "grass-fed" & "pasture-raised" are nothing but green-washing and humane-washing lies.
In reality, this industry is responsible for animal suffering & environmental destruction on a scale we should all be deeply concerned about.” 🥛🐄🩸
via
@animalsavemvmt
“With the emotional capacity for grief, cows have been documented to bellow in agony for days after their calves are taken. The mother-child bond is crucial to the welfare of both cow and calf, making it inhumane to break.”
#februdairy
#dairytruth
🎥 @/littleredbarn_sanctuary
Devastating scenes in Aotearoa/NZ as the dairy industry heads towards the peak of calving season.
What you see here is proudly marketed as clean, green NZ leading the world in free-range, grass-fed, humane animal farming – but don't buy the lies!
@animalsavemvmt
#milk
Veal is a baby cow, stolen from his mum (a cow used for dairy) within 24h from his birth and then killed at 17 weeks old.
Meat = Dairy = Meat
#dairytruth
#milk
The New York State Fair “Birthing Center”
“We
@WoodstockFarm
are continuing to work hard to make NY voices heard that this dairy industry propaganda is NOT acceptable. Listen, watch, share, and please sign our petition if you haven’t already.“
#milk
#dairytruth
Shel wanted to live and resisted with every ounce of her strength. 💔
Animals fight back, struggling against confinement, resisting transport, and refusing to succumb easily, displaying a will to survive until their very last breath.
via
@animalsavemvmt
#dairytruth
She is still dripping milk on her way to the slaughterhouse.
Milk for her baby.
Milk her baby will never get to drink.
via
@TorontoCowSave
#dairytruth
#milk
Milk is breastmilk meant for a mother's calf.
As
#Februdairy
celebrates dairy farmers' “love and care”, let's not forget the painful truths hidden behind the scenes: separated babies, grieving mothers, and the undeniable abuse of motherhood.
Please, ditch dairy!
#dairytruth
Breaking the bond between mother and calf is a standard practice in the dairy industry, but the case at Cedar Valley Farm reveals the extreme suffering. An isolated incident?
Watch the unfiltered camera footage, on our blog:
#dairytruth
#milk
“By the time you see this, this baby and thousands more like them will already be gone.
Saving their lives is as simple as swapping out a few items on your shopping list.
Ditch dairy to save lives.”
#dairytruth
#milk
🐄
Dairy Facts the Industry Doesn’t Want You to Know 🐄😡 After 4 years, her body is lame so she is going to be slaughtered! 💔🐄😣 Germany is the biggest milk producer of the EU
@GoVeganWorld
@dairy_truth
Every time you consume dairy, a mother loses her child. 💔
Are you gonna be the one that saves them? 🙏
Ditch dairy. Go vegan. 🌱💙
via
@darrellsawczuk
#dairytruth
#milk
🐄
“Is a glass of milk really worth this? 💔
Calves are taken from their mothers just hours after birth to ensure that the milk intended for their calves can instead be collected for human consumption. 😔”
via
@teamveganfta
#dairytruth
#milk
🐮
Dive deep into the hidden reality of dairy farming at Cedar Valley Farm, British Columbia.
We're revealing EVERYTHING, no filters.
It's cruel, heart-wrenching, and a global issue - affecting even small, local, and organic farms.
Learn more:
Dairy Industry = Meat Industry
Veal is flesh from the very youngest 😭
Now you know the truth, you can be part of the change 💖🐮
👉
#dairytruth
#veal
#milk
„She only just entered the world.. Look at how she is treated.. 😔💔
Cow’s milk is for baby cows. Don’t be the reason babies are torn from their mothers. 🐮“
🎥
@TheSaveMovemen1
#dairytruth
#milk
⚠️ distressing images ⚠️
Newly released footage shows cows kicked and punched, babies separated from their mothers, and cows with pus-covered udders. 💔
via
@MercyForAnimals
#dairytruth
#milk
Breaking! 🚨
8.30pm this evening a truck carrying dairy cows & calves crashed into the Cremorne railway bridge
📍 Melbourne, AUS.
The top sections were completely crushed, with many cows suffering excruciating injuries.
@farmtransparencyproject
IG
#dairytruth
‼️ New undercover footage “when no one is watching” by
@zviratanejime
How much more evidence of this does society need to understand that this is not an error in the work of an individual, but a chronic problem taking place every day in slaughterhouses around the world?
#dairy
Sorry to interrupt your
#Thanksgiving
, but you need to see this.
“Another burden of animal farming: stillbirths 💔
Selectively breeding cows for milk production comes with a high price for the mothers
Their DNA and bodies are distorted causing this suffering”
#dairytruth
Another dairy daycare. The saddest one you’ll ever find. 💔😢
Cows must give birth to a calf to produce milk. Until she “runs dry” and needs to be artificially inseminated again.
Please
#ditchdairy
!
#dairytruth
Physical abuse is commonplace in dairy farming
Shocking scenes of animal abuse have been recorded at a 500-cow dairy farm [Tafarn Y Bugail] in west Wales in our latest farm investigation.
via
@vivacampaigns
#dairytruth
#milk