Where does milk? Just do not answer "the cow"! You will be surprised to learn that we get milk only because the cow was born calf, as well as the only reason for a woman's body produces milk - because she had a child. The only difference is that we do not take away the child from the mother and did not use her milk, adding to coffee. But this is what we do with dairy cows, and it happens every year of their life.
It would be nice, of course, if the cow gave enough milk to feed her calf and another for cheese, yogurt, ice cream, butter and other dairy products. Guess that makes the cow! Unhappy dairy cow is a product of selective breeding and give milk to ten times more than he can drink her calf. But still calves are taken from the mother within 24 hours of their birth, so we got all the milk - nearly 10,000 liters per cow per year.
Have you ever seen a cow with what anxiety the mother looks at her newborn calf when its gone in another barn, and she would never see if you could only hear her bellowing. Very hard look at how the dairy industry. But this is only the beginning of the history of the dairy cows. Their problem more difficult to see, in fact, dairy cows produce the impression of animals, happy with their lives. They seem to be so peacefully munching grass or lie in the sun and chew the cud.
Look at their udders, it's much more than that of wild animals. If you look closely, you can see how it affects the gait of the animal. Such an unnatural gait leads to leg injuries, so many lame cows. Foot problems exacerbate concrete floors in winter barns. Cow hooves are not designed for prolonged standing on a concrete floor.
As a result, the cow suffers from laminitis - inflammation of the membrane lining the inside of the hoof. Does it hurt? Sure, - said Professor John Webster.
If you look at their back, you can see that the sides are visible through the bone. Usually it looks as if a piece of fine cloth hung on a hanger. And all because of a cow or give milk or calf nurturing, or do both simultaneously. Cow not only produces a lot of milk for nine months after the birth of a calf, but most of that time she was pregnant, and should provide the following power of his unborn calf. The life of a cow becomes easier in the last three months of pregnancy, it ceases to milk and all its efforts are directed at the construction of the body unborn calf. Since dairy cows give birth every year, this monotonous routine never stops.
Wild cows produce milk in sufficient quantity to feed her calf, or one-tenth the amount of milk produced by dairy cows on farms, so wild cows udder is much smaller. Just wild cows pregnant during feeding her calf, as it takes almost all of their life energy and endangering their lives. Dairy cows, by contrast, requires more energy, her poor diet, it is always hungry and exhausted. Production of milk in large quantities, putting udders heavy loads and nearly one-third of the cows suffered inflammation of the body. This painful condition called mastitis, it ensures that the cows appear purulent discharge from the udder.
After the cow gave posterity two or three times, intrauterine tissues become weak and are easily torn from overload and poor nutrition. Therefore, dairy cows are sent to slaughter at the age of four to seven years, although they can live up to twenty or more.
Quite a different situation with the cows, which are grown for the production of beef. Their milk is used in the production, so they produce milk for their calves. As well as wild cattle, they dug a small size, but not as great as that of dairy cows, which in turn means that their bodies absorb all the nutrients.
You might think that the producers look at the miserable exhausted dairy cows, and say that it is time to give them a rest. Never! Corporation, dairy producers are experimenting with hormone BST (bovine somatotropin), which leads to the fact that cows produce more milk - 40% more. Through selective breeding, new kinds of displays of cows that will produce twice as much milk. A feeling that can not satisfy the greed!
Humans are the only representatives of the species on the planet who drinks the milk of other animals, then what happens to the calves? Not one in a million calves born each year in dairy cows in the UK would never see his mother. Nearly 330,000 female calves grow to replace his exhausted mothers dairy cows, which slaughtered in a slaughterhouse. Some calves with more weight to contain beef production. But the best part about 450,000 calves annually come to the market, at the age of a few days old, even before they are able to eat solid food or drink not from the nipples. Their fate - to become a piece of beef on the table.
After 22 weeks of this miserable existence, calves are sent to slaughter. For what? For white meat for gourmet dinner in a posh restaurant.
Calves will still take the cow-mother on the day of birth. As before it will provide only a liquid diet to maintain the desired color of meat, they will never see the sun, and will not graze in the meadow. But they will still be living in close quarters with an area 1.2 square meters, and in which there will be conditions for normal life. The only difference is that in the age of a few weeks, rather than to put them in single, narrow cells, they will be herded into overcrowded pens with other calves.
Now on to the calves that are raised for beef production. In the UK, like almost everywhere in the world, made from beef meat of castrated bulls, or, as they are called, the oxen, for the rapid growth they are fed foods high in protein.
Australians nearly as well as the Americans eat beef more than any other nation, every 24 hours, 100,000 cows are killed in slaughterhouses. The U.S. consumes so much meat that is not enough land for grazing, so the cattle are driven in close sheds. It is easier to feed and water them in the shed can be hundreds, even thousands of animals. This is just one of the ways to farm breeding.
In feedlots, where cattle contain very little space, they can not even turn around for years are in their own dung, and eat foods high in protein, which would quickly gain a lot of weight. Again, they are fed antibiotics and other chemicals in order to prevent diseases caused by overcrowding sheds. This system of beef production, is used in the UK since 1987.
There are other ways of growing beef cattle, the most humane of them allows cows nurse their calves. Calves stay with their mothers until the age of two, and until they learn to eat grass, they eat milk. The animals live in herds and can communicate freely, as in the wild. All, of course, very good, while the young bulls are taken to slaughter in order to kill him.
Large animal, so strong and powerful as the cow, can cause serious physical harm to any person, if he wants, but it does not. Instead, they pay a terrible price for their obedience. We take away the cow and its progeny are milking it for as long as she had no milk. Manufacturers have made a cow in milk or meat machine.
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