Quote Originally Posted by GLC1968 View Post
Would you feel ok going out to an organic, grass fed dairy and latching on to a teet and sucking? No, of course not. But have some farmer (or some machine) do it for you where you can't see it, and then 'clean' it for you by cooking the hell out of it makes it somehow less 'wrong'?
I don't see an issue with milking my own cows. A dairy farmer doesn't have to do it for me. As for the machine, it's just a breast pump. Women do it all the time. And as for cooking the hell out of it, even breast milk, when pumped and refrigerated is often heated to body temperature before going into the bottle. It's really not all that different.

Personally, I drink organic milk from local farms. Farms that I can visit and can see how the cows are treated. PETA can come talk to me anytime. Best of luck to them.