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22nd March 2017
08:52am GMT

In the video, Erin explains that, like other mammals, cows only lactate when they have a baby to feed, so the dairy industry inseminates cows over and over again from the age of about 12 months so they keep making milk.
Grim.
The campaigner reminds viewers there are hundreds of plant-based sources of calcium and protein to choose from so, despite what most of us have been raised to believe, dairy is not essential to the human diet.
The video has racked up 1.7m views on YouTube but be warned; it makes for disturbing viewing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcN7SGGoCNI
Images: The Field's Beneath/Facebook
We got in touch with the National Dairy Council to ask them their views on this divisive issue;
"Ireland is recognised globally for the high quality of our pasture-based farming with a number of milk quality programmes being rolled out by organisations such as Teagasc and Animal Health Ireland. Combined with Ireland’s moderate climate, our rainfall creates vibrantly green grasslands where our herds are free to graze for more than 300 days a year. Suggestions of 'cruel' is by no means reflective of the high quality of dairy farming that exists in Ireland or the basic quality standards accepted for quality and regulatory compliance's".