Recorded by Clayton McDonald Jacky Sutton representing Vegan ACT at the March Australia Canberra Rally 31 August in Garema Place. http://mpathe.org/btl/2014/08/20140831_canberra_march_australia_41_11.mp3 Click here to find out more about ag-gag and get a template to write to your local Senator.
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Jacky Sutton
What’s wrong with Dairy?
Written by Jacky Sutton Welcome to Veggie Bytes, addressing questions that vegans are often asked. Some of these questions are made in good faith. “Milk is good for you, so why are you against it?” There are two issues here: human health and animal welfare. Human health Humans are the only species on the planet that regularly drink the milk of other mammals beyond infanthood. Cow milk, like human milk or camel milk or cat milk or possum milk or any other milk produced by a mammal mother for her mammal baby, has evolved to provide species-specific nutrients to very young beings. Polar bear milk makes baby polar bears …
“Where do you get your protein and calcium?”
By Jacky Sutton, Vegan ACT If I had a dollar for every time I have been asked that I would be a wealthy woman. The idea that human mammals have to rely on the baby food of non-human animals well beyond their natural weaning for calcium has been drummed into our heads by the dairy industry lobbies for over a century. Cows, as mammals, also require protein – as do apes, giraffes, elephants, buffalo and dozens of other herbivorous species. Plants also contain calcium, without any of the harmful side effects of cows’ milk, which also contains pus, antibiotics, bio-engineered hormones, pesticides and acids, which leach calcium from human bones. The idea …