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Pastimes : THE SLIGHTLY MODERATED BOXING RING
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To: Lazarus_Long who started this subject3/25/2002 11:29:46 PM
From: cosmicforce  Read Replies (1) of 21057
 
Since everyone has to eat, I thought I'd share this with those of you who care about food and food quality. Dean Foods (operator of Berkeley Farms) is running dairies all over the state of California. On a drive recently I came across a stinking, wet, festering instance of a dairy that disgusted me. I'm not a city boy and I'm familiar with how dairies should be run. I grew up in Washington state (dairy is big there). My cohort was also from a dairy state (Wisconsin).

What we came upon was such a foul place, I can't imaging how such places were allowed to exist. Granted this place was off the beaten track (I was pursuing a stereo photo of a thunderstorm at the time and the road we turned onto was just coincidentally running in the right direction to get the picture).

I'll attach the pictures through links. I'm sending the following pictures and my description of the fetid conditions to Dean Foods. There were animals lying in filth (one of the pictures shows what appears to be a downed animal). The smell was so bad there was no escape. We've had rains and the bacterial action on the massive amounts of cattle urine and fecal matter was execrable.

I'm hoping that this will create some awareness of the absolutely horrid conditions in which these animals were living (in preparation to be milked.) At first we thought it was a feed lot (one might expect that animals on the way to slaughter might temporarily be in such conditions). It wasn't -- these animals were right next to the milking stations. I hope you join me in criticizing these conditions.

Here are the pictures:
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