Cows today are forced to produce a far greater quantity of milk than they ever would in the wild. This is accomplished through two types of manipulation - of food and of hormones. In the wild, a cow, like all mammals, will produce milk after giving birth to a baby, and does so in a classic bell curve for about seven months, beginning at less than ten pounds of milk per day, climaxing at about twenty-five pounds per day, and then tapering back to ten pounds and then to zero as the calf begines to eat solid food. On today's dairies the newborn calf is immediately removed from the mother, causing ENORMOUS ANGUISH to both, and the mother is artificially forced to produce from 90 to 110 pounds of milk per day for a full seven to eight months!.

Dairy cows are impregnated at a much younger age than would ever occur in the wild, and are kept pregnat virtually continuously, even while they are lactating from the previous pregnancy. The enormous strain of being pushed so hard to produce such abnormally large quantities of milk quickly destroys the health of these poor cows. Though they would naturally live 25 years in the wild, after about 4 years of this dairy ABUSE their "productivity" drops off significantly. They are then forced to endure the brutality of the slaughterhouse and be reduced to inexpensive hamburger meat, leather, and animal feed.