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1. MY VISIT TO A DAIRY FARM
Pravin K. Shah
JAINA Education Committee
01 - My Visit to A Dairy Farm
Dairy Visit in USA:
I visited a dairy farm located on Route 2 north of Burlington, Vermont (USA) in May of 1995. The dairy owns approximately 150 cows. All its milk production is used to make ice cream.
Here is the summary of what I saw and learned:
It was milking time (5:00 PM) and the cows were being milked in 3.5 minutes each by a machine. This is done without regard to how hard it is on the cow. It was extremely difficult to watch the cows' sufferings during the milking. The machine has no feeling. To extract the last drop of milk sometimes traces of blood get mixed with the milk.
Since cows produce the most milk after pregnancy, they are kept pregnant for their entire fertile life through artificial insemination.
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