Happy cows produce more milk.

From
http://www.abc.net.au/rural/vic/stories/s929181.htm

Happy cows - James Martin
If you were a cow what would make you happy? That's the question scientists at the National Milk Harvesting Center at Gippsland are asking dairy farmers. Their research has found if cows are happy they could produce up to ten per cent more milk, as well as taking less time to milk. It's all about creating good cow karma in the dairy. Little things like a cool breeze, and a firm surface to walk on and better stock handling can all help. According to researcher Darold Klindworth says good cow-karma, makes for good cow-flow.
Darold Klindworth, Research and Extension Scientist National Milk Harvesting Centre at Ellinbank

 

I realize that this thread is a bit dead but its the only one that is close to what I have to say.

I was watching a show on the travel channel and the guy that was eating all these weird foods learned how the cows in either Thailand or Taiwan (can't remember right now) are some of the most spoiled cows in the world. They let them run around the farm (which is huge), they give them massages in the morning to relax them, they give them a little amount of beer in their meal also to relax them.

I eat meat but am thinking of becoming vegetarian. For now, my mind is saying that If you're going to kill an animal for food, why not let it have a great life. Instead of having to suffer in crowded places and killed mercilessly.

My question is...Why is it that countries that are sometimes considered theird world countried treating their animals better than we do? We always want things to better, NEW AND IMPROVED! But instead they make it worse for these animals.

 

In Hindu thought, they believe that if the animal was killed in a bad way, that badness is passed on to those who consume that meat. A transfer of karma.

It also applies to those who prepare food. Angry cooks pass on that anger by what they serve others.

I think the program you're talking about is Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern. What little TV I watch, I try to make time for his show. He's great.

http://www.travelchannel.com/TV_Shows/Bizarre_Foods


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Make them happy, or give them rBGH...mmmm pus milk.

 

I'm quite frustrated about the way cows are treated today.
They are used like products. I'm even a bit disturbed by the fact that they're being milked with a machine instead of by hand, its like we have lost touch with our animals because of the money

 

I visited a farm a few weeks ago, and it was run by this single man, he had 35 cows, so he used the suction machines. I mean, try to milk 35 cows... twice a day. haha

but I agree... At first I would eat meat from "free range farms"... I was like, 'great, they're treated humanely, and thats all that matters' but really, since there is no legal definition of 'free range', companies and just slightly alter the way their naimals are kept, and call it free range. for example, with chicken farms, sure, they're not in cages, but they're in these big building with little or no natural sunlight

from wikipedia: "The USDA has no specific definition for "free-range" beef, pork, and other non-poultry products. All USDA definitions of "free-range" refer specifically to poultry.[4] No other criteria-such as the size of the range or the amount of space given to each animal-are required before beef, lamb, and pork can be called "free-range". Claims and labeling using "free range" are therefore unregulated. The USDA relies "upon producer testimonials to support the accuracy of these claims."

although the european union has its legal rules.

I mean, try and look up pictures of free range farms. you're not gonna get any.
The only meat I'll eat [so far, since I have not gotten proof of humane treatment from any other farms] is from a water buffalo farm in vermont, they're treated very fairly, and the buffalo love people... not that I'd be eating the meat i nthe near future, but just as an example

 

I'm gonna try to make sure my family drinks milk from The Organic Cow of Vermont. They treat their cows well...

 

yeah its shocking the way animals get treated its far 2 commercial . whether you believe in god or not or mother nature animals were put here yes so we could eat some yes like many years ago you would have some land with a few animals that would get a bit of quality time and then killed now its just massed produced on such a large scale that is what there born for and they have a shit time in their short life.
i try not and think of this lol when i am baked but sometimes it makes me want to join the veggie bergade

 

there's quite a few dairies around here in northern colorado. they look good to me. i think the only bad cattle usage organization i've personally seen was in southern california. it was disgusting.

 

I drink milk and I think with what cows go through they should be pampered, spoiled, and loved. Its obvious than when someone is unhappy, they don't function right.

 

I have a Jersey cow at our place that will give birth (and start milking) in April. She spends all day grazing on the pasture, gets treats of apples and grain and and spends the nights in a clean, dry stall. We plan on sharing the milk with the calf, which (if it's a male) will be trained into an ox to work on the farm and woodlot. This seems idilic now, but it was more or less the way cows were raised everywhere until the 1940's or so when most people stopped raising their own animals and became reliant on cheap factory farmed products. I say it's about time that we started moving towards a relationship with other animals based out of mutual respect, rather than seeing them merely as a commodity to be exploited.

Here's an interesting website: www.iscowp.org

 

delicious.

my question: who ever thought something called "bovine growth hormone" sounded like something humans should eat...

you know antibiotics in our food are the reasons for verility of disease today and ineefectiveness of commericial antiobiotics.

besides all that shit makes us fat Americans..

i really need to only eat organic. its the only way.

 

Actually it is high fructose corn syrup that is making Americans and some of the rest of the world's humans fat.