Cows are treated as though they are inanimate machinery – you turn on a tap and out

comes the milk.

As we know, cows produce milk only when they are pregnant, as their breast milk is
intended for their babies. Every day that pregnancy is delayed is a day’s loss of milk, and so
pregnancy is not left to chance. Cows are artificially inseminated which involves one human
hand entering the cow’s anus to manipulate her cervix into position while the other hand
inserts a tube of semen into her vagina. Suddenly, milk doesn’t seem quite so wholesome,
does it?