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There are a lot of misconceptions surrounding dairy farming.

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Now this isn’t about pointing fingers but
certain groups of certain people

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[coughs and very obviously say “vegans”]

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Excuse me!

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...have made it their mission to spread harmful lies about dairy, threatening the livelihood

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of hardworking farmers.

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So if you want to survive in today’s kill-or-be-subjected-to-the-aggressive-sanctimonious-whinging-of-animal-

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activists-surpassed-in-grating-annoyance-only-by-utter-inaccuracy-to-the-point-where-you-pray-they-renounce-

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veganism-just-so-you-can-be-killed-world...listen up!

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Hey there, modern Dairy Queen.

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You work long, hard hours to feed your family—and
families all across this great nation—with

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wholesome, quality nutrition pumped fresh
from the nipples of a 1,300-pound mammal by

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sterilized machinery, into a metal storage
vat, transferred to a tanker truck, driven

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to a factory, tested for all sorts of strange,
pasteurized, homogenized, separated, processed,

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packaged, shelved, purchased, and drunk up
by kids everywhere—just like nature intended!

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So you don’t have time for any anti-dairy
propaganda-wielding wingnuts trying to give

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honest, hardworking people like you a bad
name!

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That’s why today we’re going to learn
how to answer these ungrounded activist accusations

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head on—show them you’ve got nothing to
hide by telling the truth, the whole truth

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and something but the truth.

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[wink]

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Let’s jump right in and start with the most
controversial dairy industry practice: the

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removal of dairy calves from their mothers.

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This thoughtful and loving act is unjustly
warped into emotionally-manipulative rhetoric

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of the mother cows grieving their “babies”
who are “kidnapped” in order to “steal”

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their milk.

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That’s where the brilliance of this approach
shines—who better to put these concerns

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to rest than actual mothers!

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Laurie: Hi I’m Laurie Spahr with Spahr Jersey
Farms.

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I live here with my husband Brian and our
two daughters.

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To dispel any talk of industry insider propaganda
bring in an outsider to ask the really tough

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questions

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Liz: My name is Liz Fourez and I blog at LoveGrowsWild.com

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Now throw in some inspiring music and sweeping
visual shots.

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That’s just @#$%& beautiful.

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Now it’s time to get serious and tackle
these absurd lies head-on.

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Liz: I noticed that I don’t see any babies
around here.

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Where are the calves—

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Laurie: Yeah, yeah

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Liz: —at?

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That’s right—show how eager you are to
share the truth by not even letting that #^$ finish

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her thought.

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Laurie: That’s a good question.

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All of the cows in this barn are girls, and
only girls can make milk, so girls are what

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keep our business rolling.

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Some constructive criticism: maybe try to
sound less like you’re running a house of

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ill-repute.

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And it’s quite a bold move bringing up the
whole male/female thing—best to gloss-over

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any questions about how an all-girl herd keeps
gettin’ knocked up.

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Don’t want to open the door for ridiculous
“rape” accusations from activists taking

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forced vaginal and anal penetration out of
context!

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And any troubling questions about where the
baby boys go…

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Laurie: And people always ask, “Well, where
are your babies?”

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Quick tip: If you have any inkling of maternal
instincts, be sure to put those on hold for

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the time being.

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And if you’re nervous, just remember—you’re
telling people to do something they already

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want to do: eat ice cream, cheese, milk, and
yogurt.

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It’s not about convincing them, it’s about
giving them the peace of mind to keep doing

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what they want to do anyways!

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Honestly, it doesn’t even have to make sense!

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You can even try tossing out completely irrelevant
statement like they’re commendable acts:

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Laurie: We do birth our own babies here so
that the calves are delivered on site.

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Nailed it.

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And now for the true brilliance—not only
own up to removing calves, but show how this

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so-called “kidnapping” is really an act
of compassion from a caring mother.

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I’m mean, you’re pretty much a god-d^&n
bovine Mother Theresa!

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Laurie: Then it’s actually safer to move
them to a different facility so that they

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don’t get stepped on, they don’t get sat
on—‘cause these are large animals and

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sometimes when they plop down, sometimes they’re
not really looking where they’re gonna sit.

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Brilliant!

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See, you’re not tearing apart families—No!—you’re
saving lives!

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Never mind that you’re the one actually
confining these cows in an unnaturally crowded

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environment and then using that to justify
taking their babies away.

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Most people won’t take the time to think
that through.

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They just want to be able to down a pint of
Häagen Dazs in peace.

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Now you’re getting crap for keeping your
cows inside, just offer another straightforward

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response:

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Liz: Do the cows have a chance to go out to
pasture at all?

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Or you said they’re all—

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Laurie: well

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Liz: —inside?

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Laurie: What happens is, just like the human
cycle when a woman is nursing, they dry ‘em

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up, which means they just stop milking them.

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That’s exactly like how humans nurse!

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Laurie: And then they have a little vacation
and they do hang out in the pasture.

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And they sort of just, um, take some time
off…

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See, dairy farms aren’t slave labor camps
like those activists would have you think.

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They’re f&*$% 5-star spa resorts!

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Now illustrate how your iron-clad logic has
the skeptical outsider.

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Liz: So it’s for their own benefit—

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Laurie: It really is

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Liz: —to take them and put them in their
own separate area.

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Laurie: Absolutely.

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Fantastic.

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Now, even though you’ve already won, why
not go the extra mile and finish strong:

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Laurie: We can keep them in an environment
that’s very clean and make sure they’re

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being cared for the way they should be.

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Then before anyone has a chance to question
why taking a baby away from their mother is

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the way it should be, just shut that &$*^ down.

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Like before she’s even done getting that
final word out.

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Now that you have mothers endorsing this whole
practice, feel free to bring in the big guns

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for reinforcement:

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Make sure to toss in how dangerous mothers
and babies are to one another!

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Fred: The biggest advantage to individual
rooms and hutches for calves, is it prevents

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disease transmission.

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We have known for a long time that calves
and heifers that are raised separately from

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the adult herd have less disease.

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It’s a wonder how any animal reproduced
before you intervened!

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And if anyone tries to point out that issues
of cleanliness could arise from the conditions

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and stressors on the cows, just nip that $%^# in
the bud.

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Feel free to go bold, like this dairy blogger’s
expert answer to a beef farmer’s wife, whose

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“instincts told her that it was cruel to
separate a mother cow and her calf.”

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Oh, what you poor dairy farmers have to deal
with!

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Even other people in the industry think you’re
@#& monsters!

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From blog: Cows are all too well-known for
their willingness to lay in manure, even when

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clean bedding is available.

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Any manure or bacteria on a cow’s udder
would be ingested by the calf when it tried

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to drink.

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What #$@* filthy animals.

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Don’t forget to still assure any skeptical
mothers out there by identifying with their

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experience:

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Fred: Just like baby infants are removed and
put in a nursery, we kind of do the same thing

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with baby calves for their health.

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Of course human mothers get their babies back,
but don’t get lost in the minutia.

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Instead, show how good these calves have it!

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Fred: In the summer time, when it’s really
warm out, a hutch is really nice because they

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have a little outside area in front of the
hutch, kind of like a patio where they can

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go out and they have fresh air and sunlight.

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See, I’d take a luxury condo over maternal
bond any day!

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Fred: In the wintertime, they’re protected
from the wind in that hutch—deep straw bedding,

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and we also put what’s called a “calf
coat” on them or a calf blanket to keep

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‘em warm.

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Who needs the warmth of a mother’s embrace
when you’ve got some straw and a blanket.

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Fred: And then at a certain age they’re
grouped according to age—much like schoolchildren

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are.

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We’re grouped according to age and with
our pen-mates

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Y’know how it was in school.

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Hanging out with your peers, eating lunch
through metal bars, going through the right

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of passage into womanhood of losing your virginity
to a gloved appendage.

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Brings me back.

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Before we close out, let’s go over a few
Don’t’s to keep in mind.

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Never show calves actually being taken from
their mothers, or the mother’s reaction.

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If you’ve leaned heavily on the whole “cows
make horrible mothers” approach, do not

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show them defending their young.

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The sanctuary workers realized Clarabell had
given birth in secret and hid her calf so

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well in the tall grass it took workers a while
to find her.

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Becaise every baby she'd ever had had been
taken away from her by the dairy farmers.

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Clarabell assumed her new humans would do
the same.

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Definitely don’t mention how dairy cows
bodies give out almost two decades prior to

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their natural lifespan.

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(That doesn’t go over well.)

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And whatever you do, never EVER say anything
about where the male calves go.

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Don’t.

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Don’t watch that!

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I hope you enjoyed this instructional video.

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Don’t let manipulative vegan propaganda
soil your good name!

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Give the video a thumbs-up and share it around
to spread the truth about the wonders of dairy.

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Now go fly your dairy flag with pride!

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Go.

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Just go.

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Don’t look over there, just go!

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Go eat your ice cream.

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The mothers said it was okay!