Risks of Dairy Products and Problems Withing the Dairy Industry

This project is to spread awareness of the health risks involved in the consumption of dairy products, as well as the inhumane treatment of the animals. People do not realize how dairy cows and their calves are treated and the cruelty and devastation they face. Many people believe that dairy products are good for your body and can help prevent osteoporosis and other ailments, when in fact they do much more harm than good for …

…only are large dairy farms detrimental to the animals and the health of humans drinking and/or eating the byproducts, but also to the environment. Cows produce more than 120 pounds of excrement a day, equal to that of two dozen humans. In areas with large amounts of factory dairy farms, such as California, where 1/5 of the country's supply of milk comes from, thousands of square miles of underground water has been contaminated by cow manure.