The dairy industry would have us believe that cows live happy lives; that they spend their days basking in the sunshine and roaming around in the grass with their young. But the reality is a different, far darker story.

All cows within the dairy industry – no matter how they are raised – will be forcibly impregnated, separated from their calves and, eventually, slaughtered at a young age. These truths are an inescapable part of commercial dairy production in the UK.