1. Dairy Cows Fact Sheet // Animals Australia
Dairy Cows Fact Sheet
Calves are taken from their mothers within 12-24 hours of birth. The separation breaks a strong maternal bond, and both Cows and calves suffer.
To keep producing milk for human
http://www.animalsaustralia.org/factsheets/dairy_cows.php - 29.7kb
2. For the mothers who give us milk // Animals Australia
- if not all - mammals. Cows, like humans and other mammals, can only produce baby milk after they have given birth. For Cows the milking period lasts for approximately six months. With the milk production in decline the Cow is impregnated
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3. Milk is a feminist issue // Animals Australia
In order to produce milk, a cow must be kept pregnant and lactating. This is done by restraining her in a head stall and artificially inseminating her. Shortly after birth, calves are torn away from their mothers, who bellow for several weeks
http://www.animalsaustralia.org/media/opinion.php?op=112 - 29.7kb
4. More mastitis in dairy cows as farmers milk for every drop // Animals Australia
sizes have become bigger, cows are more densely populated within the farming system.
"There's more access of cows to where there's a reasonable amount of cow faeces
"We've got a higher rate of stocking and more ability for more cows
http://www.animalsaustralia.org/media/in_the_news.php?article=2689 - 19.8kb
5. A MOST Inconvenient Truth | Meat & Global Warming: What Al Gore forgot to me...
including how a single dairy cow produces 500-700 litres of methane a day . In one year that cow has created the same amount of greenhouse gas as a medium sized car travelling 70,000 kilometres .
Factory farming of animals also contributes
http://www.animalsaustralia.org/features/global-warming-film/ - 16.5kb
6. WA Labor sets sights on live export | Animals Australia
- it doesnt matter who's cow it is and the best way forward is to engage and influence.
Please put your efforts into changing the actual problem - cruelty, this wont be achieved by attacking the people who make up our rural communities, look
http://www.animalsaustralia.org/features/wa-labor-sets-sights-on-live-export.php - 72.6kb
7. The story of three very lucky calves | Animals Australia
farm to show hands who think cows produce milk, and just about every hand goes up, even the teachers. Puzzled I say, hang on a minute here, I am a female and just by virtue of being female doesn't mean I produce milk. cows like all mammals only
http://www.animalsaustralia.org/features/three-lucky-calves-their-story.php - 69.4kb
8. In the News // Animals Australia
Jul 2011
Dairy one cow short of panel scrutiny
12 Jul 2011
Better deal for animals in Blacktown pound
12 Jul 2011
Jumps on firm footing after funding lift
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http://www.animalsaustralia.org/media/in_the_news.php?page=5 - 22.5kb
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