To: <cayadopi AT yahoo.com>, <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [Homestead] Excellent NYT editorial
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 21:11:15 -0800
We still have *real* dairies like your grandparents up here in No.
California. Hundreds of acres of green pasture, some irrigated, some not
but still 100s of acres of it for the cows to roam through.
We're talking the old type farms. I know Camozzi's is 615 acres (Petaluma)
and St. Anthony's (Two Rock) is 339 acres, Stornetta's (Pt. Arena) is 550
acres.
So, if you want milk from real cows at real dairies and you can't raise it
yourself, I recommend Humboldt Cremery or Clover-Stornetta.
Lynda
----- Original Message -----
From: "Leslie" <cayadopi AT yahoo.com>
Having been on my grandparent's dairy farm as a kid - where the cows were
turn out and rotated thru various tracts of land during the day,,,, I was
shocked, I mean drop dead shocked when I saw how dairy cows are treated here
in NM. I now wonder if this is what dairy farms have become all over the
country.
There are literally hundreds of cows enclosed in a hot sunny, manure filled
pens, with a central metal roof. The pen is fenced around the permiter with
the "things" the cows put their heads thru to eat food. The workers spread
alfalfa all around the perimeter, and the cows eat whenever they want. Then
they lay in piles of manure chewing their cud. The smell can be smelled a
mile away.
And there are pens after pens after pens,,,, The largest that I have seen so
far is along I-10 between Las Cruces, NM and El Paso, TX
No wonder they need antibiotics! The cows were filthy. I'm sure they must go
thru some kind of a shower before milking but what a waste of water in the
desert. On top of truly horrible conditions for those cows.
Maybe the NYT needs photos of where milk comes from....
--- On Thu, 12/11/08, Lynn Wigglesworth <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com> wrote:
From: Lynn Wigglesworth <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com>
Subject: [Homestead] Excellent NYT editorial
To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
Date: Thursday, December 11, 2008, 9:02 AM
As Barack Obama ponders whom to pick as agriculture secretary, he should
reframe the question. What he needs is actually a bold reformer in a
position renamed "secretary of food."