Lord Krishna showed by His personal example how to love cows & drink cow milk & eat cow ghee, curd, maakhan etc.

Don't fall to this propaganda. They want you to stop drinking milk so that cows can be slaughtered.

Cows milk/ghee increases the fine intelligence of children's

Milk is the miracle food and contains all vitamins to sustain life. It is also brain food for the production of fine brain tissues for spiritual understanding.

A point of consideration is that milk is a food sanctioned and designed by God, by Krishna, for humans and not just for the calf. The cow produces more milk than the calf needs and this is not accidental but by design.

To get milk from a cow you need to impregnate the cow (there are numerous examples where some cows gave milk without impregnation but that is another story) and after a pregnancy of nine months a calf will be born and the cow will produce milk.

Out of affection for her calf the cow will give as much milk as possible. The first milk is full of colostrum and this will give the best start to the calf. After about five days the milk looks normal and this is then suitable for us to drink. The milk is for the calf and for us.

In our system of cow care we let the calf be with its mother for two weeks and drink whatever he or she likes and we will take the surplus. From the third week up to six months we graze or pen the calf separately and give him or her access to the mother twice a day.

The calf's share of the milk roughly equates to 25% of the day's total.
So to get milk you need to impregnate the cow and then you will need to arrange for a person to milk the cow, for the milk to be collected and then prepared in different ways.

It is natural for a cow to provide milk for people, this is how Krishna created it. Drinking milk from a cow is not wrong but is completely natural and Divinely arranged.

There are those who are feeling very strongly the pain of the modern dairy system & think that we should be vegan. Please remember the hand of God in the natural arrangement for the production of milk. Abstinence from milk is not the solution and neither is it helping the cow.

Imagine rejecting a piece of art or other contribution by a person who has been abused or harmed in some way just because they have been abused or harmed. That would be a double wrong. Similarly to reject the milk of a cow that has been abused is also a double wrong.

At various places around the world there are those who are working to provide the most ethically produced milk in an atmosphere of care and lifelong protection for the cows, calves and bulls. This comes from an understanding of the message of Lord Krishna.

In summation, producing milk and drinking milk is natural and food sanction by God. Offer your milk and products with a heart of devotion and actually benefit the cows further who have given so much. Don’t stop there; do something in pushing forward a cow protection alternative.

Push the establishment of cow protection farms. As keeping your own cows will likely be unpractical then help those who are protecting cows. Find out what cow protection milk and products would cost and pay the difference to help establish this part of the milk-drinking story.

If there is milk available that comes from lifelong protected herds then take it even at a higher cost.

Support a goshalla and use milk and offer it with devotion. Help cow protection projects and help establish an alternative.