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Originally Posted by Sparky
I'm talking about genetically engineered cows. These cows only live a life span of 3 to 4 years and almost all of them get infected utters.
They're pumped with rbgh, a growth hormone that is banned in every other nation in the world.
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Yeah, the slaughterhouses are much different then dairy houses I should have made that clear.
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Sparky, why does it matter how the dairy was set up financially? Whether or not a farm is incorporated has nothing to do with how it’s run. Further, the implication that corporate farms are somehow antithetical or markedly different from family farms ignores that fact that many family farms ARE incorporated. What would you have, that farmers be banned from incorporating their business?
Regarding that video, talk about a hatchet job; here’s a list of some of the inaccuracies:
1) The notion that “big dairy” hires hit men. Really?
2) The “impact on family farms”…. What they’re discussing, poorly, is economies of scale. How on earth you’d get farmers from taking advantage of this is beyond me, but the other issue is the impact it’d have on food prices – which would be to dramatically increase them.
3) Family dairy farms are not just closing down because of economies scale; the nature of dairy farming is very rigorous – not many youths clamor for a life that involves waking up at dawn, working until sunset, and working year round with no time for vacation.
4) Economies of scale does not just apply to cow herd size but to technology as well; the differences between a traditional stall set up, small carousels, and large 30+ carousels should be obvious.
5) The organic dairy farmer says that corporate dairy farms are trying to be profitable. What farmer doesn’t try to be profitable and why is profit bad?
6) They don’t take into account that the organic dairy farmer actually has a financial interest in defaming these corporate farms. As do the small farmers who, of course, will take any and all opportunities to whine for legislation to protect (read: subsidize) them.
7) It ignores that corporate organic farms do exist.