Click on the image above to take a look at the real cost of milk production. (RealPlayer required.)

Today’s mother cows are treated like milk machines–chained by their necks in concrete stalls for months at a time, their udders are swollen so large that they sometimes drag on the ground. Cows give milk for the same reasons humans do–for their babies. To keep milk production high, cows are kept pregnant, and their male calves are taken away at 1 to 2 days old and chained inside cramped dark crates to be killed for veal. The milk-nature meant for them ends up on our supermarket shelves instead.