• JelleWho@lemmy.world
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      5 hours ago

      As a person who check all cheese in the supermarket for this. The current state (EU/NL) is almost 60%, 60% of the cheese in our supermarket is without murdering baby cows. Which I up from last year, and it has been trending up for a while.

      I have no clue how other countries are doing, my guess us worse. Some france people still label ‘Fish’ as ‘Vegan’

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        4 hours ago

        That number moves much closer to 0% if you start counting the baby cows killed in order to keep their mothers perpetually lactating, rather than just those whose bodies were used as a direct ingredient.

        A cow will be impregnated 6-8 times during her life on a typical dairy farm, before she is killed af half her natural lifespan to be replaced by a younger cow. One of those baby cows will be raised as that replacement cow, the rest will be killed shortly after birth.

        Killing baby cows is an inherent part of cow-milk production.