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The Vegetarian and Vegan Foundation’s 'White Lies' campaigning leaflet against dairy farming states that:

• Cows on intensive dairy farms are so overworked that one in three has mastitis. Painful, swollen udders issue copious amounts of pus, some of which is in your milk (up to 400 million cells/litre)
• Dairy cows are kept pregnant as much as possible so that they produce milk. Milk from pregnant or new mum cows contains 11 bovine (cow) growth factors and 35 bovine hormones which benefit calves
• Although brilliant for calves, mildly increased consumption of one of these growth factors, IGF-1, raises the risk of several cancers in humans

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