so what exactly are cows that are often seen standing in fields up to, are they just props for ad-men to film now and again? I doubt it.
Anyway, someone somewhere made the decision to increase the UK population by at least 10 million , and it wasn’t from British people having children, so all this food we need has to get made somewhere – we’ve already got the housing shortages, so we may need to compress agriculture even more.
The Guardian seems very positive about cramming yet more people onto our island BTW
Whatever your opinion on eating meat/dairy, using pictures of animals looking cute and happy to sell products obtained through harming or killing them is perverse and misleading.
They’ve certainly spent a lot of money on the subterfuge. Farmers in our local town and the surrounding countryside have spared no expense filling fields full of grazing sheep and cows to fool us that sheep and cows graze in fields….
The cow pats are extremely realistic.
Unrelated, but I’m certain that’s the exact picture they used in Earthworm Jim 2, when the cows say well done.
Today I learned what bucolic means! What a disgusting sounding word for something pleasant, sounds like a disease
Every advert for everything misrepresents the thing it’s selling. Burgers don’t look like in the photo. Your car isn’t from the future. Perfumes will not make you attractive.
The thing about ads is they can lie to you without explicitly lying. “I never said the cows just wander around on the green hills all day”.
For everyone disputing this because you’ve seen cows in the fields.
>It has been estimated that up to 20% of the UK dairy herd of 1.9 million cattle have no or very limited access to pasture, but regulators do not collate figures on intensive units. The average annual milk production of a dairy cow has risen significantly over the years, with many cows now producing as much as 12,000 litres of milk a year.
The dairy industry is the repeated forcible impregnation of cows and the repeated separation of her baby calves from her, before slaughtering her for meat. It is a crueller industry then the beef industry, and there is no way of doing it humanely or ethically when we don’t need to consume cow’s milk (which we don’t).
And it’s all unnecessary. Adults drinking the breast milk of an another species. Pretty messed up.
Even the cows in fields get slaughtered at around 5 years old when their milk production declines. They live on average in excess of 20 years.
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Battery cages have been banned in this country for over a decade
Completely agree that industrial scale agriculture needs to stop its cruel to animals and collapsing / degrading the environment. its the responsibility of the corporations / supermarkets and the government who need to change and restructure the system immediately by making oat milk and almond milk etc more affordable for consumers and selling oat milk in large litres rather than in the relatively small carton containers they’re usually sold in
It’s alright and quite comfortable for rich, guardian types with their wealthy London salaries to preach about their ethics but they have the luxury of affording ethical and sustainable products on a regular basis. The working classes on low incomes who are a large majority of the consumers can’t afford those prices so make reduced cost incentives to encourage consumers to buy alternatives to cow’s milk pronto
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so what exactly are cows that are often seen standing in fields up to, are they just props for ad-men to film now and again? I doubt it.
Anyway, someone somewhere made the decision to increase the UK population by at least 10 million , and it wasn’t from British people having children, so all this food we need has to get made somewhere – we’ve already got the housing shortages, so we may need to compress agriculture even more.
The Guardian seems very positive about cramming yet more people onto our island BTW
Whatever your opinion on eating meat/dairy, using pictures of animals looking cute and happy to sell products obtained through harming or killing them is perverse and misleading.
They’ve certainly spent a lot of money on the subterfuge. Farmers in our local town and the surrounding countryside have spared no expense filling fields full of grazing sheep and cows to fool us that sheep and cows graze in fields….
The cow pats are extremely realistic.
Unrelated, but I’m certain that’s the exact picture they used in Earthworm Jim 2, when the cows say well done.
Edit, yeah it is https://youtu.be/qC_pbzXn3YM
Today I learned what bucolic means! What a disgusting sounding word for something pleasant, sounds like a disease
Every advert for everything misrepresents the thing it’s selling. Burgers don’t look like in the photo. Your car isn’t from the future. Perfumes will not make you attractive.
The thing about ads is they can lie to you without explicitly lying. “I never said the cows just wander around on the green hills all day”.
For everyone disputing this because you’ve seen cows in the fields.
>It has been estimated that up to 20% of the UK dairy herd of 1.9 million cattle have no or very limited access to pasture, but regulators do not collate figures on intensive units. The average annual milk production of a dairy cow has risen significantly over the years, with many cows now producing as much as 12,000 litres of milk a year.
The dairy industry is the repeated forcible impregnation of cows and the repeated separation of her baby calves from her, before slaughtering her for meat. It is a crueller industry then the beef industry, and there is no way of doing it humanely or ethically when we don’t need to consume cow’s milk (which we don’t).
This 6min video covers it well: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UcN7SGGoCNI
And it’s all unnecessary. Adults drinking the breast milk of an another species. Pretty messed up.
Even the cows in fields get slaughtered at around 5 years old when their milk production declines. They live on average in excess of 20 years.
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Battery cages have been banned in this country for over a decade
Completely agree that industrial scale agriculture needs to stop its cruel to animals and collapsing / degrading the environment. its the responsibility of the corporations / supermarkets and the government who need to change and restructure the system immediately by making oat milk and almond milk etc more affordable for consumers and selling oat milk in large litres rather than in the relatively small carton containers they’re usually sold in
It’s alright and quite comfortable for rich, guardian types with their wealthy London salaries to preach about their ethics but they have the luxury of affording ethical and sustainable products on a regular basis. The working classes on low incomes who are a large majority of the consumers can’t afford those prices so make reduced cost incentives to encourage consumers to buy alternatives to cow’s milk pronto