Thread from @JessLReid "Like so many Canadians, I grew up consuming dairy, believing it to be an essential food. I never considered where it came from, beyond the cow who obviously just made milk for people."
"But undercover footage from an organic dairy farm in B.C., recently obtained and published by Animal Justice, exposed what I learned later in life: cows don’t make milk for us, they make it for their babies."
"And as part of standard farming practices, those newborn calves must be removed from their mothers in order for that milk to be rerouted for human consumption."
"This is done despite, as the footage shows, causing mother cows obvious distress as their babies are hauled away in wheelbarrows." @JessLReid @AnimalJustice @angie_karan thestar.com/opinion/contri…
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