Plans for 'super dairy' withdrawn

Hang on where do you get local milk??
I thought my local tescos sold local milk?
I just normally buy what they have stacks of.
I assumed the milk was like the potatos - from suffolk?!?!!
Am I wrong, i'd rather buy local then imported milk.
 
I live on a dairy farm and we are setting up with robots that will milk the cows for us. they will live in all year round but they have a 2 month 'holiday' if you like before they calve so they're not stuck in all the time! I also heard about a university study that has shown that cows prefer living indoors when they had the choice. With modern times as they are, these 'super dairies' will become all the more common in all areas.
 
I used to live on a dairy farm and used to think what a wonderful life the cows had. It is sad that everything is becoming bigger but not better and so impersonal - I robot cannot see if a cow looks off colour or is lame (even though it probably can detect mastitis).
Mind you overall, whether indoor or out, many cows get treated better than a lot of horses that are stuck in a 12x12 stable for hours on end!
 
most people agree that its good thing not to have super dairies, in an ideal world, and that we should , if possible pay a fair price for humanely reared meat and milk, to the benefit of the animals welfare, so the question is how do we go about changing things? not an easy one to answer! from the point of view of people who go to the shops to buy food to eat?

i for one believe that most ordinairy folk are humane and would be horrified to see what some animals are subjected to , even today we probaly have kids who have no idea where milk comes from and have never been on a farm, i don't think it fair to blame joe bloggs, folk who intensively rear animals do so out of choice, they alone are responsible for their actions, no one is holding a gun to their heads.

i recently bought one of the chickens mentioned by another poster with golden coloured meat, which costs about 5 quid more, and it was delicious, the flavour and texture of the meat was shockingly unlike the normal crap and to be honest it the quantity of meat made up for the extra cost.
 
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