I see the TV ads with all the happy cows grazing on endless sunny green pastures under blue skies. What is the reality?
2007-02-04 14:11:50 · 21 answers · asked by Steve71 4 in Food & Drink ➔ Other - Food & Drink
No. I'm a native Californian (born & lived here 47+yrs). I've never seen a dairy cattle farm that looks like the ones on the commercials. The ones I've seen are in central California, and like someone else described they are smallish, mud pens w/ huge mounds of dirt in them. They smell really bad so you want to make sure you roll your windows up and keep air recirculating in your car. Once we saw a place where a dairy cow had died, they just put her on the side of the road (in a state of rigamortis) for the tallow truck to pick up at some point.
Dairy cattle are bred in order to keep the milk production flowing, and the calfs are immediately taken away since the cows milk is for human consumption (milking is all done by machinery) ... if the calf is a male, it is generally gotten rid or right away (no use for too many bulls on a dairy farm).
There is a very small natural food store in our town, she sells organic milk products that come in the old fashioned bottles ... the kind where the cream all rises to the top (yum). Otherwise, at the normal grocery store I buy Horizon or Strauss milk ... organic milk tastes better (in my opinion).
Free range beef cattle have a better life since they get to roam over thousands of acres. I've helped ranchers check their fence lines, so know those cattle have pretty natural lifes until their "end")
2007-02-10 03:28:52 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Cows might be happy for a little while, or for a long time if they're lucky enough not to put in cramped quarters, injected with hormones and antibiotics, and eventually smacked in the head with a hammer before their bodies are cut up into meat. Sometimes the body is still moving while they get cut into pieces.
I think those ads are bull s*** (pun intended). As you may have guessed, I'm vegetarian. I wanted to be a vegetarian ever since my grade school took a field trip to a pig farm. I saw a dead pig laying on the ground and it really affected me.
2007-02-10 06:14:34 · answer #2 · answered by majnun99 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I would like to think so but I don't believe it. No cow thats being used for mass production is happy.
2007-02-11 19:10:28 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yep, and there's happy cows in Oregon, too...grazing in green pastures, etc. Most of the dairies here treat their cows very well, thank goodness.
2007-02-04 14:25:06 · answer #4 · answered by wolfsong1111 2 · 0⤊ 3⤋
well thats california for u i do believe happy cows come from california cuz a lot of happy people come from california i came from california and im happy cuz im still here and a lot of cows i see are happy and graze in endless green pastures so ya i do believe
2007-02-04 14:16:29 · answer #5 · answered by Jenna 3 · 0⤊ 3⤋
I'm sure they're happier than cows in Iowa. Iowa cows are kept in confined quarters, fed modified foods when they aren't grazing, and have to endure massive swings in the climate.
I'm from Iowa, and I know I'm happier here in California. Why not the cows?
2007-02-04 14:41:13 · answer #6 · answered by chefgrille 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Cows don't have any idea what state they're in. If you want your cows to be happy, tell them they're in California.
2007-02-12 12:45:49 · answer #7 · answered by Bob 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
they actually do. dairy cows do much better in milk production in nice enviornments and temperature. the tv ad is correct.
2007-02-12 12:13:35 · answer #8 · answered by kaybee 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you knew how dairy cows, all cows, and in fact all animals are farmed these days, you'd know that there is no way on this earth that they could possibly be happy, ANYWHERE.
2007-02-04 14:43:00 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
NO!!!!!!! Who or What in any shape or form of life could be happy living in a state so full of sin?
Cows are happy living in the country
2007-02-08 17:12:42 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋