On Tue, 01 Jul 2008 18:07:23 GMT, notbob > wrote:

>On 2008-07-01, sf <> wrote:
>> He's been in a bad mood ever since he left California.
>
>LOL......
>
>
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-B2dK4kr7o
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>Funny, but pure fantasy.
>
>CA dairy farms are filthy, muddy, hideous places that are pure torture for
>the cows. There are no barns or green pastures and the cows live outdoors
>in small 1 acre pens continually standing, up to their knees, in their own
>dung. In fact, dairy farms produce so much cow dung, it can't be disposed
>of and dairy farms must store it as huge 3-4 story high mounds, covered by
>plastic sheet and old car tires. Most farms have more than one and they
>dominate a dairy farm's landscape. The cows are pumped full of anti-biotics
>and other chemicals to fight the disease from constant immersion in their
>own waste and infections allegedly aggravated by BGH. It's really gross.
>BTW, as I understand it, those happy cow commercials are actually filmed in
>WI!
>
>I like milk and I eat beef, but CA dairy farms are beyond grim. If you have
>a weak stomach, you don't want to see a California dairy cow in its natural
>habitat.

They have the huge piles of shit with tarps and tires in Wisconsin
too. They look like mountains. In the summer they haul them away.
I'm sure the conditions are better in Wisconsin just by the fact that
there's so much more grazing land, but it's still not a perfect world.
Cows are as dumb as cybercat. We almost hit one in the middle of the
night. It was wandering in the middle of a 55 MPH farm road. Escaped
and Lost! It wouldn't move and we had to drive on the side of the
road to get past it. I suspect as long as they're not inflicted with
pain they have no clue of their lifestyle. Including living in their
own shit.

Lou