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Article #27680Re: Genocide by Milk; (An open letter to dr. J. Kennelly, Univ. of Alberta, Dept. of Agriculture, Food, Nutritional Scien
From: Rex Harrill
Date: Wed, 04 Mar 1998 00:00
Date: Wed, 04 Mar 1998 00:00
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Oz wrote a comment about Rex's report that cows in a "model" Pennsylvania milk herd had their tails removed: [snip] > Now this makes it impossible for the cow to swat flies and is probably > enough to cause dislocation of the tail vertebrae due to recoil effects... The fly problem was my thought when I noticed all the Holstein's tails had been docked to about 12-15 inches length. I just couldn't square Tracy's "pet" concept with an animal being deprived of its genetically designed fly swatter. I didn't notice any dislocation and can't report on that. To carry this a little further, I have visited quite a few older diary barns that had ingenious, and quite various, schemes to remove manure so that the cow was kept in a much more sanitary manner. However, in this modern facility I described, the cows only had a little concrete pad to lay on and their back ends (with tail) hung out over a concrete channel that was wide enough for a skid-loader to periodically scrape. Obviously, a relaxed tail would lie precisely in the sh*t. There seemed to be no concern that the cow was so confined as to be mandated to stand in the sh*t to feed through a grate on the far side of the channel. Did the cows have access to pasture? *I don't think so.* I'm sure there are various engineers ready to point out the efficiencies of such a system, but it's doubtful any simultaneously belong to the humane society. Regards, Rex Harrill
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f504b,b3d7ce04b42c9889 X-Google-Attributes: gidf504b,public X-Google-Thread: 109985,151075c09efcae31 X-Google-Attributes: gid109985,public X-Google-Thread: 10a626,b3d7ce04b42c9889 X-Google-Attributes: gid10a626,public X-Google-Thread: f4acb,b3d7ce04b42c9889 X-Google-Attributes: gidf4acb,public X-Google-Thread: 111cd5,b3d7ce04b42c9889 X-Google-Attributes: gid111cd5,public X-Google-Thread: 10a7f6,b3d7ce04b42c9889 X-Google-Attributes: gid10a7f6,public X-Google-Thread: 112f74,b3d7ce04b42c9889 X-Google-Attributes: gid112f74,public X-Google-Thread: fff05,f8eb846c94647f11 X-Google-Attributes: gidfff05,public From: Rex Harrill <brixman@erols.com> Subject: Re: Genocide by Milk; (An open letter to dr. J. Kennelly, Univ. of Alberta, Dept. of Agriculture, Food, Nutritional Scien Date: 1998/03/04 Message-ID: <34FD721C.A649CFE2@erols.com> X-Deja-AN: 330765191 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <6d2q06$pvq@news.auaracom.net> <BA$1NYA47R90Ewxd@upthorpe.demon.co.uk> <34F69B0B.5E45@enterprise.net> <ijPNFAA2eS+0Ew+h@upthorpe.demon.co.uk> <taquilla.1239151668C@news.erols.com> <34F9E47D.2B3E5378@erols.com> <taquilla.1239255977I@news.erols.com> <YhpjlFAslw+0Ew4a@upthorpe.demon.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: abuse@erols.com X-Trace: winter.news.erols.com 889025117 20114 207.172.143.64 (4 Mar 1998 15:25:17 GMT) Organization: Erol's Internet Services Mime-Version: 1.0 Reply-To: brixman@erols.com Newsgroups: ab.general,can.general,can.med.misc,can.schoolnet.biomed,rec.food.veg,sci.agriculture,sci.med.diseases.cancer,sci.med.diseases.osteoporosis,sci.med.nutrition