Is milking cows painful to cows?

Not to mention the milk of genetically manipulated, steroid ingested, depressed and tortured cows. So yes! milking is not only painful but it takes away their entire lives, billions of them each year. read more

Milking the cow may not be pain full, but in dairy farms, if the calf is a male, then they won't let the calf feed from its mother. Calf will be starved to death. In the absence of calf, some times the cow will not let them milk it. read more

For Dairy Cattle: The physical act of milking a cow is not painful unless they have mastitis or lesions on teats. Plus dairy cows do feel pain (especially high milk yielding cows like Holstein) before each milking when they are engorged with milk. This make walking very painful as their udder is pushed back & forth between their legs. read more