> The claim that cows have to be 'raped' to give milk is absurd. Milking cows is not rape. If you don't milk them they just about burst - have you seen their udders when they aren't milked?
Cows only create milk to feed their young. Cows only have young if they are inseminated. Thus dairy cows are kept in a perpetual cycle of breeding to produce young (which are taken from them early) so they produce milk.
Half the young are male and thus useless; they are killed. Half the young are female and kept to replenish the dairy herds.
Right but it's still not 'rape'. The concept of rape doesn't apply to cows. Cows cannot and do not ever give informed consent to anything, because they are simply incapable of ever being informed of anything.
It isn't because humans decides so. But it's the same thing. Just like a child can't consent to sex, a cow can't neither. In Denmark, sex with animals is actually against the law, except if it's forced impregnation, because "we need our meat and milk", or some bullshit untrue statement like that.
Cows only create milk to feed their young. Cows only have young if they are inseminated. Thus dairy cows are kept in a perpetual cycle of breeding to produce young (which are taken from them early) so they produce milk.
Half the young are male and thus useless; they are killed. Half the young are female and kept to replenish the dairy herds.