About dairy cows

Dairy farming was a part of agriculture for thousands of years. Today, modern cows are used exclusively to produce large amounts of milk.

Like humans, cattle produce milk only after birth, and cows have to keep calves every year to keep producing milk. Usually, it will be artificially inseminated within 3 months after giving birth.

These high-yield cows produce milk within an average of 3 years, then slaughter them and use beef in the meat.

Approximately 250 million cows worldwide produce milk. There are about 10 million cows in North America, 23 million cows in the EU, and 6 million cows in Australia and New Zealand. More than 12 million cattle in China produce milk in China.

In the past 50 years, the dairy industry has become more precise in order to increase the milk yield per cow. Holstein - Friesian is the most common cattle in the United States (and the European Union (EU) and the UK), which produces large amounts of milk. Over the past 40 years, the milk yield per head has more than doubled. In the US, normal cattle produce more than 7 gallons a day. If her production is just enough to feed the calf, the cow will produce only 1 gallon of milk a day.

Most cows in the United States can not enter the pasture in most cases. This is called "zero glazing", and it is being practiced more and more in large-scale operations in parts of North America and the UK.

In homework, cows are usually placed in the hut. Some huts have an outdoor patio

I read American cattle research, but there was little difference in treatment standards between organic cattle and traditional cattle, and I showed that there are some similar drawbacks. When I asked them about that study, science-oriented dairymen who were very sincere about their animals did not show much worry. I have heard that people speculate that standards that often fail in this study are related to updating clerical work and preparing procedures for dealing with a number of issues. Animal treatment Anyway, purchasing organic food does not mean I will handle animals better.

Natural life expectancy of dairy cows is about 20 years, but cattle used in dairy are usually slaughtered in about 5 years because their bodies are exhausted by pregnancy and lactation. According to dairy research, nearly 50% of cattle were strictly restricted and dirty when standing on the concrete floor when killed. Cow's body often turns into soup, dog food, cat food, or ground beef.

All the cows are eventually slaughtered, the dairy industry and the beef industry all enter the same system. Abuse of a cow's body is so terrible that many cows have fallen. This term refers to diseased and / or injured cattle who can neither walk nor stand. Usually, a cow towed or pushed by a bulldozer attempts to transport them to a slaughterhouse, even if it is illegal to deal with animals that are not walking. During an unavoidable slaughterhouse cow, cows do not provide food, water, or protection for these elements for up to 28 hours.