The lack of pesticides, hormones and antibiotics in organic foods is great. I support that wholeheartedly. There is a whole large group of people who buy organic beef, chicken, pork, milk, cheese and eggs, and they are definitely getting a health benefit. The bovine growth hormones in milk and cheese increase cancer risk, for example:
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But I think these people do think the animals are being treated better than is actually the case. For example, cows on organic dairy farms are still artificially inseminated once a year (which I consider rape) so that they always produce milk. Their calves are taken away from them immediately, and the male calves are crated up and tortured for veal production and then killed. The girls end up like their mothers, living short and miserable lives with sore, swollen udders, mourning for their stolen young, and then being sent off to be slaughtered for hamburger when they cannot produce enough milk. While dairy cows on organic dairy farms are not given antibiotics or growth hormones, everything else in this expose is as accurate for them as it is for factory dairy farm cows:
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