Dairy - the case for greener, healthier, lower performing cows

http://www.theecologist.org/blogs_and_comments/commentators/2546959/dairy_the_case_for_greener_healthier_lower_performing_cows.html
Date Written:  2014-09-08
Publisher:  The Ecologist
Year Published:  2014
Resource Type:  Article
Cx Number:  CX16752

With supermarket milk cheaper than spring water, it's time to rethink the modern dairy industry. It's not just the milk that's become a throwaway product - the high-octane Holstein cows that produce it are also in the knackers yard after just two or three lactations, the living waste of a loss-making, environment-trashing industry.

Subject Headings

• Cows
• Cows/Historic Breeds
• Dairy Farming