Is Cheese Made From Just Milk Or Does It Have Other Animal Ingrediants?
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I dont understand why milk, cheese, and eggs are against vegan diets. You’re not hurting the animal. (i know it doesnt feel nice to have your nipples pulled for milk, but it also hurts if you let it build up in there, so you’re helping the cow out) and its natural for chickens to lay eggs….
what is it that makes it bad? im learning that theres so much harsh treatment to animals, and thats why vegetarianism is so popular, and I’m honestly being swayed,
but I cant figure out why the by-products aren’t allowed
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dont worry
cheese is an entirely milk product it is made by action of citric acid on milk.and yes milk is completly a vegeterian diet (although not literally).Milking of cows dont hurt them but if all the stored milk is drawn out the the calf remains hungry.
But there is an exception to eggs the are a non vegetarian diet because by eating an egg u r probhiting the existance of a chick that is technically killing it before it is born.It also deprives the hen of being a mother.So it is better if u dont consume eggs but the decision is yours and only yours.
REMEMBER “If u r a vegetarian to be kind to animals then why are u eating their food.” and carry on as u like.
It does not help a cow to be kept nearly continually pregnant and have its calves taken away so that we can take her milk.This is the case on factory farms.As for milk build-up, a nursing calf is what is supposed to relieve it.Being given hormones to maximize her milk output harms a cow, and being milked all year long, year in and year out wears her out.For instance, mastitis, a disease of the mammary glands, occurs far more frequently in factory farm dairy cows than it does among cows that are raising their calves the way they should be able(and not having to give milk to us).And that’s not even mentioning the other problems.And the conditions that factory laying hens live in are horrendous.At any rate, vegans are against any type of animal exploitation-and taking things that belong to animals-such as their milk and their eggs or their wool-is exploitation, pure and simple.
I guess people can eat what they want. However, many people eat or don’t eat thing for the wrong or mislead reasons. I think that vegans take it too far. Animal by-products offers a lot of nutritional benefits that cannot be replaced.
Vegans don’t eat anything that comes from an amimal because they think that animals are mistreated and abused. Did they ever think about the vegetables that they eat. Who grows and harvests them. Mainly, migrant workers that are underpaid and work in 100 degree heat. These migrant workers are treated, sometimes, worse than the animals in most farmers and dairies.
no its milk with preservetives depends wat kind you buy or make it yourself
“Is cheese made from just milk or does it have other animal ingrediants?”
There can be rennet, which is an enzyme from the intestine of a calf.
“You’re not hurting the animal. (i know it doesnt feel nice to have your nipples pulled for milk, but it also hurts if you let it build up in there, so you’re helping the cow out”
Depends on where you are. In America, the cows lactate almost continuously. Their babies are taken away and either killed or raised as dairy cows. In India, things are much more humane in regard to cows and milk.
“You’re not hurting the animal.”
I guess a small private farm that collected eggs from their chickens wouldn’t hurt the animal, but the methods used in factory farming do put chickens in harm.
“but I cant figure out why the by-products aren’t allowed”
It’s from an animal. One that was killed for meat in a factory farm most likely.
As far as your first question goes..many cheeses have animal rennet in them. Animal rennet is the stomach lining enzyme found in calves. A person that does not eat meat should be avoiding those cheeses. I do eat cheese but only from companies that don’t use rennet. Cabot has several varieties that are animal rennet free.
Vegans do not use anything or eat anything from any animal because more often then not, the animal was expoited in some fashion to get the product.
Sometimes cheese can have other ingredients in it like herbs. But I think most of the flavor just comes from it being aged. I see no reason why vegetarians shouldn’t eat it. And you’re right. It would be cruel not to milk cows.
Dont worry cheese is entirely milk Im Italian and I love mozzerella cheese my sis is vegitarian and she eats bianca(cheese) pizzas all the time!
For an in-depth look at the world of dairy, I would suggest the book Animal Factories, which describes the horrible conditions that animals are forced to survive before they are used for their eggs or milk. It is terribly sad. Chickens are kept in wire cages without any room to move, and their beaks are clipped so they won’t turn to cannibilism when they start going crazy with claustrophobia. Male chicks born into egg laying chicken factories are placed in plastic bags & suffocated because they cannot lay eggs. Horrible, horrible stuff.
Many vegetarians/vegans just don’t want to support this awful industry.
Oh, and about the cheese thing, yes it is mostly milk, but check labels! If it has “rennet” in it, that’s enzymes from cows’ stomach linings.
I’m not vegan by any means, but I think that they don’t eat those products because the animal treatment. It doesn’t hurt the animal do do it’s normal thing. That’s not the issue. It’s the housing, feed etc… that hurts it. By products had to get there somehow. They just don’t appear from out of thin air.