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Cows have to be milked every day wherever they may be and Compassion in World Farming, an international animal charity, is warning farmers, and all of us, the day of the mega-dairy is upon us and, in the near future, Brand new HP Pavilion dv6000 Battery for HP Pavilion dv6000 laptops, Daisy and her sisters will be kept indoors all year round. She won't be called Daisy or Polly any more either, just a number.
The charity suggests that the sight of cows grazing in fields could soon become a distant memory with a future of thousands of animals confined indoors with little or no access to pasture. Much like Dell Latitude D820 Battery hens in fact.
In Britain, there are plans to build a super-dairy, home to 8,000 cows under roofs, the milk production plant of the future. Some details from the Nocton dairy project in Lincolnshire reveal cows will be kept indoors round-the-clock with access to 'loafing areas' of 4.5 acres for each mini-herd of 450 animals for six hours a day in summer -- but not for grazing.
For the rest of the time the animals will be kept in barns with 8.3 metres of sand and concrete space for each beast. The cows will be milked three times a day, each producing a total of 33 litres.
The project's promoters say their super-dairy is big enough to allow investment in modern buildings and round-the-clock veterinary care, and by having the animals indoors they can have a better diet than they would get from grazing.
They also point out (good PR, this!) that no soy protein will be fed to the cows (allaying concerns about rainforest destruction). And the surrounding land will be used for crops to feed the stock.
Cows have to be milked every day wherever they may be and Compassion in World Farming, an international animal charity, is warning farmers, and all of us, the day of the mega-dairy is upon us and, in the near future, Brand new HP Pavilion dv6000 Battery for HP Pavilion dv6000 laptops, Daisy and her sisters will be kept indoors all year round. She won't be called Daisy or Polly any more either, just a number.
The charity suggests that the sight of cows grazing in fields could soon become a distant memory with a future of thousands of animals confined indoors with little or no access to pasture. Much like Dell Latitude D820 Battery hens in fact.
In Britain, there are plans to build a super-dairy, home to 8,000 cows under roofs, the milk production plant of the future. Some details from the Nocton dairy project in Lincolnshire reveal cows will be kept indoors round-the-clock with access to 'loafing areas' of 4.5 acres for each mini-herd of 450 animals for six hours a day in summer -- but not for grazing.
For the rest of the time the animals will be kept in barns with 8.3 metres of sand and concrete space for each beast. The cows will be milked three times a day, each producing a total of 33 litres.
The project's promoters say their super-dairy is big enough to allow investment in modern buildings and round-the-clock veterinary care, and by having the animals indoors they can have a better diet than they would get from grazing.
They also point out (good PR, this!) that no soy protein will be fed to the cows (allaying concerns about rainforest destruction). And the surrounding land will be used for crops to feed the stock.