Are There Antibiotics In My Milk?
Farmers use antibiotics. Like any other species, cows get sick, and it is in their best interests to be treated with antibiotics when necessary. The average dairy herd varies across the UK, but sizes range from 50 to over a thousand cows. If you picture a school or an office with as many people as that, at some point one of them will be ill and need antibiotic treatment. The same applies to cows- even under the best management systems some will become ill.
What You Should Know About Dairy Farming: Introduction
The more I read and the more I see, the more it becomes obvious that the general public want to know more about how their food is produced- and how animals are managed. It's very easy for those of us who exist within this milky echo chamber to be surprised when people comment on pictures of calves to say that they are cows missing their babies, or to roll around with laughter when a survey shows that children think chocolate milkshake is produced by brown cows, but the truth is that we can't expect anyone to understand our industry if they haven't been exposed to it. How many of you could recognise a coffee crop if you saw one? Or know how cotton is harvested? And those are two commodities that it's likely you are exposed to every day, that also exist in the wider agricultural industry.
Time To Cut Greedy Farmers Down To Size? No, Emma Duncan, No
That's the thing with farming- you can be wholly removed from it, understand nothing, completely hate it and yet your very survival hinges on it
25 Things You Know If You Grew Up On A Farm
On Farm Animal Welfare
22 Things You Know If You Work With Farmers
25 Things You Know if You Grew Up on a Dairy Farm
Of Lambs and Racehorses: Where the Animal Rights Movement is Wrong
The animal rights movement needs to take a step back, look at the real issues facing livestock globally, and work with farmers to ensure that everyone benefits. And ultimately, they have got to stop spreading lies.