Hi guys, this is a bit of a tough one for me. I am in the process of opening my own dairy farm and wanted to create a kind of organic protein, milk drink.

For context, I am vegetarian, but I absolutely love dairy products and milk. Milk is something that I am genuinely addicted to and most of my meals consist of milk or milk products.

Initially, when this idea came to me, I thought let me buy some cows maybe 100 or so and start my own farm and I will love the cows. They will not go to slaughter and they will live a very good life, etc.

But whilst researching I found out how the dairy industry works, and I was trying to figure out ways to make it ethical, but with the repeated pregnancies, the diseases and the actual impossibility of having a sustainable farm without going into massive losses because once the cows don’t naturally give milk they will be a huge cost for the business and adding that cost to a product will make it non-affordable for most people.

So I have put a halt on this whole business idea of my own dairy product, but I love milk and now every time I see a bottle of milk all I think about is what the cows are going through because I want to drink this.

How do I approach this? I genuinely cannot see myself enjoying food in my life if I’m not able to have milk or milk based products of cheese or Greek yogurt or things of that sort.