Acharya Prashant addresses the argument that if people stop consuming milk, cows will be disrespected and abandoned. He counters this by questioning the origin of the cow itself, stating that if one were not consuming milk, the cow would not have been born in the first place. The entire system, he explains, is based on artificial insemination. He dismisses the common fear that if milk consumption stops, all cows will end up on the streets in a worse condition. He argues that if the consumption of milk and other products derived from animal exploitation ceases, these cows will not be forcibly bred into existence. Acharya Prashant criticizes the ignorance of the average milk consumer, who is disconnected from the reality of villages, dairy farms, and large cooperatives. He describes their understanding as a childish and juvenile image of a cow simply giving milk, without any awareness of its origins. He details the cruel cycle where a cow is repeatedly and artificially inseminated, often while still lactating, to maximize milk production. This process, which is very harmful to the cow's body, renders it hollow from the inside. After about seven to eight years, the cow becomes a liability as its milk production wanes. He then questions what happens to this liability—an animal that needs to be fed but no longer provides milk. He implies it is sent to the slaughterhouse. This fate also befalls the male calves, which are of no use to the dairy industry and are therefore slaughtered. He calls the notion that boycotting milk would harm cows a foolish argument, emphasizing that these animals are forcibly bred for human consumption. If this exploitation stops, their forced birth will also stop, and the species will return to its natural population in the wild. He reminds the audience that the cow species existed and roamed freely long before humans began domesticating them for milk. The speaker further explains the economic link between the dairy and beef industries. The relatively low price of milk is subsidized by the beef and leather industries. The cost of raising a cow is recovered not just from its milk but also from its meat, hide, bones, and other by-products after it is slaughtered. If slaughter were to be banned, the price of milk would become prohibitively expensive, as the entire lifetime cost of the animal, including its unproductive old age, would have to be covered by milk sales alone. Therefore, he concludes that the cheap milk consumers drink is intrinsically linked to the blood of the slaughtered animal.