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To: Grainne who wrote (103900)	5/14/2005 12:24:04 PM
From: Oral Roberts	Read Replies (2) of 108807

and their udders are swollen and distended This has absolutely nothing to do with being a factory farm, it just means it's milking time. Newly fresh cows will all be swollen and distended at the end of 12 hours. It means nothing more then it's probably time to get milked. Approximately half of the country's dairy cows suffer from mastitis What does this mean, half the cows in the nation at any given point has mastitis? That is total nonsense. My somatic cell count ran less then 50,000 qualifying me for the top premiums and I don't think I treated 3 cows a year for mastitis. 3 out of a 120 is a damn site less then half. Another dairy industry disease caused by intensive milk production is "Milk Fever." This ailment is caused by calcium deficiency, and it occurs when milk secretion depletes calcium faster than it can be replenished in the blood. This has nothing to do with intensive milk production. It happens to cows that are newly freshened and their body just wasn't ready to start gobbling calcium. Never seen it happen except in the first 2/3 days after their milk comes in, it has nothing to do with intensive production. Beef cattle get it also and they are only producing for their calf. The unnaturally rich diet causes metabolic disorders including ketosis, I again must say BS. Ketosis is not having enough sugar in your bloodstream. A diet lacking in energy can cause the cow to begin eating it's fat at to high of a level for energy and this is what causes the ketone level in their blood to get too high. In other words the exact opposite of the statement being made. n a healthy environment, cows would live in excess of twenty-five years, but on modern dairies, they are slaughtered and made into ground beef after just three or four years. I think 25 is too high though I'm guessing but I can promise you 3/4 years is BS. They don't give their first calf until 2 are you trying to tell me we only milk cows 1 maybe 2 years. Nonsense. I had cows that were over 10 years old when shipped. You should read some articles by people who have actually been to a farm once in awhile rather then quoting from people who are obviously clueless.

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