Animal Alliance of Canada Illustrates What Dairy Truly Stands For

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TORONTO, Feb. 27, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — As we continue to hear the progress and innovative creations of plant-based milk, cheese, ice cream, yogurt and butter, we are reminded of those who remain as victims of the dairy industry. “There are many dairy-free products in grocery stores now,” comments Nicole Sapalovski, Animal Alliance Campaigner. “It really makes one wonder – how does this exploitive and destructive industry still exist?”

Sapalovski continued, “I often use the story of Isa as an example. Isa was a calf we passed driving along the road outside of London Dairy Farms in 2018. Isa’s body lay lifeless in the field next to the road, and it seemed like no one had any idea she was there. We drove onto the property and went into what we quickly learned was the milking part of the farm. I had never been on a dairy farm before and my heart sank. I was with a friend and we thought we should alert the staff that a baby was laying dead outside. I wasn’t expecting to see cows connected to tubes, having their milk, designed to feed their babies, being pumped out of them en masse. It was a warehouse inside, a system of machinery used to commodify a sentient being and their babies – although those babies were nowhere in sight. Often people don’t realize that females across species have to have a baby to produce milk, and in the dairy industry various species – cows, sheep, and goats – are artificially inseminated and that alone is truly disturbing and unethical.”

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“The staff seemed to have no care in the world and didn’t seem at all concerned by the fact that a baby was just laying dead outside. We left horrified and shocked, and as we drove off, a staff member took a big truck out and tossed Isa’s body like a piece of trash onto the truck,” said Sapalovski.

The dairy industry is the epitome of both the destruction of the mother-baby bond and the oppression of the female body. London Dairy Farms is a…