The dairy industry regularly puts cows on what the factory farmers call “rape racks”, because the cows have to regularly give birth in order to constantly produce milk (mammals produce milk after giving birth). These cows are “used up” so quickly on factory farms, that they live only about 20% as long as unfarmed cows. Watch for free Dominion (or download) and Earthlings.
Dairy farms somehow managed to become more cruel than the chicken and fur industry (the latter sometimes skin animals alive because killing them damages the fur, or anally electrocutes them).
The worst 2 industries when it comes to the total amount of pain caused are:
the fish factory-farming industry which kills more fish than the fishing industry, enslaving them in torturous conditions their entire lives before slowly torturing them to death, and
the fishing industry which slowly tortures 1-3 trillion fish to death every year - usually by slowly suffocating them to death and/or slowly crushing them to death.
Is there any way to obtain more humane dairy products (in Europe/Germany)? I don’t mind paying ridiculous prices for dairy, I don’t use it too often, so when I do, I absolutely wouldn’t mind spending more. Same for eggs. Mostly I can do without, so if I actually want egg, I’ll happily pay 2€ for an egg as long as I can lower the suffering. I just don’t know if that’s even an option, all I can do right now is buy organic, despite not liking the “organic” part of it. I just know that their minimal standards/requirements for farming are the highest.
The dairy industry regularly puts cows on what the factory farmers call “rape racks”, because the cows have to regularly give birth in order to constantly produce milk (mammals produce milk after giving birth). These cows are “used up” so quickly on factory farms, that they live only about 20% as long as unfarmed cows. Watch for free Dominion (or download) and Earthlings.
Dairy farms somehow managed to become more cruel than the chicken and fur industry (the latter sometimes skin animals alive because killing them damages the fur, or anally electrocutes them).
The worst 2 industries when it comes to the total amount of pain caused are:
Is there any way to obtain more humane dairy products (in Europe/Germany)? I don’t mind paying ridiculous prices for dairy, I don’t use it too often, so when I do, I absolutely wouldn’t mind spending more. Same for eggs. Mostly I can do without, so if I actually want egg, I’ll happily pay 2€ for an egg as long as I can lower the suffering. I just don’t know if that’s even an option, all I can do right now is buy organic, despite not liking the “organic” part of it. I just know that their minimal standards/requirements for farming are the highest.
/c/ethicalconsumerism@sh.itjust.works doesn’t have any recent posts, but maybe it can be revived with such a question.
I’m not sure that’s there’s anything in this post that is true.
Correction: the 1 to 3 trillion fishing industry figure estimated in 2010, has now been improved and the 2024 estimate (excluding unrecorded capture such as illegal fishing, discards, etc.) is 1.1 to 2.2 trillion wild finfishes caught annually. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/animal-welfare/article/estimating-global-numbers-of-fishes-caught-from-the-wild-annually-from-2000-to-2019/83F1B933E8691F3A552636620E8C7A01
More than half of seafood eaten comes from factory farms rather than directly from the fishing industry. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/10/08/magazine/farm-raised-fish-aquaculture-overfishing.html
See the links to Dominion and Earthlings for dairy, fur, etc. factory farming.