Dead cows, dirty needles, and your dairy farm ..

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sure is ..

I've given up on drinking milk at all, and eat very little dairy. This is just DISGUSTING. I wouldn't eat dairy at all except that my father buys shitty food and I would starve if I didn't eat what he bought and I am trying to save money for my move (I think I already pay to much to stay here as it is). On the flip side I have lost weight. I feel for the poor cattle they are meat and dairy SLAVES.

My in laws run a dairy farm in PA. I can assure you that the farm you wrote about is the exception, not the norm. They are required both by state law and by the milk corporation, in our case, Swiss, to keep their facility as clean as possible. If a cow dies they have to pay to have it removed and burned. If a cow is sick, typically with mastitius, they are required to quarantine the cow until anti-bodies clear from its system, this can be about a month in some cases. If that cow is accidentally milked, which can happen because the entire operation is automated now, the entire milk supply must be poured out and all of the equipment disinfected.

One single cow, with elevated anti-bodies, could potentially taint 10,000 gallons of milk, even though that cow may only produce 20 gallons.

It's tough work, but most farmers do it because they love it.

I tend to disagree. My in laws cows are free to roam the pasture anytime they want. As I wrote, the entire operation is automated. The cows literally walk into the farm and walk right onto a carousel. The milker then puts the sucker things on them and as the carousel truns the cows are each milked. The machine detects when the cow is out of milk and the nipples fall off automatically and retract. During milking the cow is fed and gets access to clean water. In some cases the cows are hosed off to clean them. Once complete, the cow simply walks back out to the pasture.

In my opinion, and I am not a farmer, the only thing cruel done to them is removing their horns when they are young. But this is done to prevent them from harming each other and possibly causing sores that can become infected.

I can only speak about dairy farms, not farms that raise beef cattle.

Nice call ..

I don't eat much meat and don't drink milk .. cook it for the fam though and ALL meat seems to have been cured .. shiny oily gross look to it .. who knows how long that meat was around for ..

Can we agree to disagree ..

I think your in laws are the exception .. they do things the right way .. I believe there is a lot of filthy things going on ..

I live on a Dairy Farm that this EXACT same thing is happening. NOT only are they throwing deceased cows in the "dead cow pile" but they are ALSO dumping spent motor oil from the Semi trucks, cabodas, vehicles, tractors, loaders etc STRAIGHT ONTO THE GROUND!!! What do I do to get this to stop! What is this doing to the water I drink. There is something that needs to be done!! Help me please!

I don't drink or eat much dairy product type foods any more.
Since everytime I do I end up with a bad after taste.
Used to love cheese, but the after taste sort've on the fence of dislike and like.

Also doesn't help after my brother reminded me of milk being basically mucous, among all the other things that's going on with it. Like the radiation, pollution, and such.

Actually this article reminds me of all of the stories my dad told me about when he used to live on a dairy farm.
Be wary of pink milk by the way.