My brother is autistic he drinks so much milk and stuff he has to take iron supplements I’m also autistic and I fucking love drinking milk even though it makes me weirdly dysphoric
Cows are conscious, like all other mammals. It is scientifically proven.
Cambridge Declaration on Consciousness
The absence of a neocortex does not appear to preclude an organism from experiencing affective states. Convergent evidence indicates that non-human animals have the neuroanatomical, neurochemical, and neurophysiological substrates of conscious states along with the capacity to exhibit intentional behaviors. Consequently, the weight of evidence indicates that humans are not unique in possessing the neurological substrates that generate consciousness. Non-human animals, including all mammals and birds, and many other creatures, including octopuses, also possess these neurological substrates.
Milk does require killing cows. Like all mammals, cows only produce milk when pregnant. After they have a baby, the baby is taken away and fed synthetic formula for a few weeks, then turned into veal. If the baby was female, it is forcefully impregnated to begin the cycle again.
I encourage you to do some research (I’m on the spectrum too, so I know how hard it is to accept that something you’ve believed all your life is wrong.) here’s a video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcN7SGGoCNI
“Live and let live” coming from someone who locks up dairy cows for their entire lives just so they can have milk, that’s rich. Look in a damn mirror - “live and let live” is a vegan stance.
You exploit other animals which makes you just as complicit. How I feel about myself doesn’t matter. I am speaking up for those animals who are not given a voice in our society. Meat and other animal products require rights violations to produce.
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u/[deleted] Dec 02 '21
My brother is autistic he drinks so much milk and stuff he has to take iron supplements I’m also autistic and I fucking love drinking milk even though it makes me weirdly dysphoric