Mothers' Day

Are you giving your Mum a treat on Mothers’ Day? Breakfast in bed, scones with jam and cream, maybe a box of chocolates? Without thinking, you put milk on the cereal and in her breakfast tea and the chocolates you bought most likely contain it as well.

So spare a thought for the mothers from whom that milk was taken. They don’t get to be mothers other than for a few hours after their annual calf is born and before he or she is taken away forever – usually to slaughter – so that we can take the milk. This separation causes immense distress to both mother and baby.

After enduring this for seven years or so, cows are worn out and transported off to be made into hamburgers.

So give Mum her treats but out of respect to all mothers, use alternatives to dairy. Soy beans don’t suckle their young.

Happy Mothers' Day, Mums.