Cows need to lactate when they have calves. They're not unending milk machines. They're like other mammals: they lactate to help their young survive. If you don

Cows need to lactate when they have calves. They're not unending milk machines. They're like other mammals: they lactate to help their young survive. If you don't take away their calf and beat it to death, it'll drink all that milk and the mother cower won't suffer one bit. So is it just the hormones that make this cruel? What happened to the calf and why isn't that cruel?