I may be biased when it comes to milk. I spent most of my non adult life on a dairy farm. I believe milk is truly a nectar of the gods.

Nothing comes close to a tall frosty glass of the white stuff for pure taste and good nutrition.

Don't believe me? Check out some facts.

P.E.T.A. would have you believe that as a dairy farmer I am some sort of sub-human animal torturer that wants to poison the world with the products, and by products of my business. Nothing could be further from the truth.

Here are a few lines from the P.E.T.A. fact sheet on milk and real facts from someone with firsthand experience.

At least half of the 10 million cows kept for milk in the United States live on factory farms in conditions that cause tremendous suffering to the animals. They do not spend hours grazing in fields but live crowded into concrete-floored milking pens or barns, where they are milked two or three times a day by machines.
I agree that factory farming is not pretty, but even factory farmers know that cows cannot be overcrowded and expected to produce. All dairy farmers are concerned with producing milk and unhappy cows don't do that. So it would be against our best interest to intentionally cause stress on our animals. Housing our animals in feed lots and barns allows us to better control the feed they receive and control their environment so that the cows may remain happy and healthy.
Milking by machines 2 or 3 times a day is in no way cruel. In fact not milking cows or allowing them to only be suckled by their young may lead to many forms of infection which can cause death.

Milking machines often cause cuts and injuries that would not occur were a person to do the milking. These injuries encourage the development of mastitis, a painful bacterial infection. More than 20 different types of bacteria cause the infection, which is easily spread from one cow to another and which, if left unchecked, can cause death.
The part of a milking machine that comes in contact with a cow is a stainless steel shell with a very soft rubber or urethane lining called an inflation. These machines when used and maintained properly cannot cut a cows teat. Dairy farmers who use proper milking practices and maintain their equipment in accordance with the manufacturers guidelines do not cause injuries to cows udders or teats. Mastitis is a common name given to a plethora of diseases that attack a cows udder. Some forms can be encouraged by improper milking practices but a large portion of them are found naturally and can be a bigger problem if cows are allowed out in pastures where cleanliness cannot be closely maintained. As far as spreading from cow to cow, most dairy farmers have adopted proper milking procedures which involve washing the udder and teats, dipping the teats with an antibacterial agent and wiping before attaching the milking unit, rinsing of the unit after each cow is milked and a post milking dipping of a cows teat with another antibacterial agent to cut down on the spread of such diseases.

In some cases, milking machines even give cows electric shocks due to stray voltage, causing them considerable discomfort, fear, and impaired immunity and sometimes leading to death. A single farm can lose several hundred cows to shocks from stray voltage.
Stray voltage is a horrible thing to have on a farm, P.E.T.A. is right that it can cause severe problems with animals, up to and including death, but milking machines cannot shock a cow. Stray voltage is caused by several other factors. Improperly installed electrical services to the buildings and improper grounding of the incoming power supply are the two biggest.
A milking machine is connected to a cow by a length of rubber hose and the only part of it that actually touches the cow is the rubber inflation. Last time I checked rubber is an electrical insulator.

Within 60 days(of calving), the cow will be impregnated again. For about seven months of her next nine-month pregnancy, the cow will continue to be milked for the fluid meant for her older calf
This is misleading, calves are usually weaned much earlier than that and not milking a cow in mid production can lead to development of mastitis which can kill a cow.

To keep the animals at high levels of productivity, dairy farmers keep them constantly pregnant through the use of artificial insemination.
There is nothing wrong with being constantly pregnant. I know hundreds of families with over 10 kids. Nobody is condemning them for being constantly pregnant. As for artificial insemination, P.E.T.A. is totally against humans furthering a species artificially. This include animals we have as pets too. I believe that Artificial Insemination is just natural selection accelerated a bit and has absolutely no detrimental effect.

As a dairy farmer my main goal is to produce milk. In order to produce that milk I must have animals that are happy and healthy.
I do not want to cram multitudes of animals in confined spaces or practice methods which will harm my animals.