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Regardless of where they live, however, all dairy cows must give birth in order to begin producing milk.
Today, dairy cows are forced to have a calf every year. Like human beings, cows have a nine-month gestation period, and so giving birth every twelve months is physically demanding.
The cows are also artificially re-impregnated while they are still lactating from their previous birthing, so their bodies are still producing milk during seven months of their nine-month pregnancy.
With genetic manipulation and intensive production technologies, it is common for modern dairy cows to produce 100 pounds of milk a day — ten times more than they would produce naturally. As a result, the cows' bodies are under constant stress, and they are at risk for numerous health problems.
Approximately half of the country's dairy cows suffer from mastitis, a bacterial infection of their udders.
please read more at the link above and do everything you can to educate others about how animals are being treated in this country - like emotionless machines which they are not.Regardless of where they live, however, all dairy cows must give birth in order to... more
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More than a quarter of sharks and rays in the north-east Atlantic face extinction from overfishing, conservationists warned today.
A "red list" report from the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) found that 26% of all sharks, rays and related species in the regional waters are threatened with extinction. Seven per cent are classed as critically endangered, while a fifth are regarded as "near-threatened".
The total number of at-risk species may well be higher because scientists lack of sufficient information to assess the populations of more than a quarter (27%) of them, the report adds. Many are slow-breeding fish that are especially vulnerable to fisheries.
......save the oceans. They might save us all.
More than a quarter of sharks and rays in the north-east Atlantic face extinction from... more
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chilling to know that Asia is still in the dark ages w/ cruelty. Horrid. They cheaply club them to death when they are done with them. My heart sinks at this and the WEB is crawling with many more pictures...like the "Racoon dog" that China 'uses' for different purposes. I will no longer buy anything from this country until they clean up their human/animal cruelty! It won't be easy since everything is 'made in China' but I am committed. How about you?chilling to know that Asia is still in the dark ages w/ cruelty. Horrid. They cheaply... more
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