Ask environmental organizations More inspections of the constant abuses that explain the cows that are part of exploitations of the dairy industry. A conclusion that they have reached after conducting an investigation into eleven dairy farms in Asturia (November 2023 and February 2024) and checking the bad praxis with these animals to Intensify the milk production.
According to these complainants, the cows are «beaten, chained, subject to continuous reproduction cycles to produce milk and separate from their young people after each delivery. Moreover, they are sent to the slaughterhouse as soon as their production descends, With about 6 years«They remember it.
In that sense they require more inspections and not as those performed. «Those who are being done now are not enough, and they even inform them from 72 hours in advance, so it one Only bureaucratic procedure for these farms«.
Animalist organizations turn the “constant abuses” on the basis of cows in the dairy industry
Environmental organizations have denounced that Dairy industry It makes “constant abuse” to cows to intensify milk production. As reported today, the conclusion arrives after a study that was carried out in eleven dairy farms in Asturia between November 2023 and February 2024, and where the cows are “beaten, chained, subjected to continuous reproduction cycles to produce milk and separated from their offest after every delivery”.
In addition, according to your complaint, the cows They are sent to the slaughterhouse “as soon as their production drops, with about 6 years.”
Not only that, according to this animal platform, in some of the facilities the cows live constantly tied up and under electrification systems to prevent their movements. “Another of the systems to immobilize the documented cows in the study is to place a ring in the nose tied to a chain, a method that is intended to facilitate the management and control of cows that is extremely painful for the animal,” they arrive.
Claim of more inspections before the abuse of these cows
In the thread of their complaint, they also added that the inspections are “not enough” and that it is even informed of them 72 hours in advance, “become a purely bureaucratic process.”
“In the farms investigated, family businesses that have raised the number of animals and most are more technical to be more competitive, cows are subjected to artificial insemination with sexed semen to increase the birth of women, which they use as replacements for their mothers,” this organization argues.
The entity explains that the sperm selection is also planning to perpetuate “specific genetic lines that produce more milk and benefit producers”, while during pregnancy “cows are still exploited by milking.” According to the testimonies of the farmers of the farms investigated, production per cow has increased to More than double compared to 30 years ago, mainly because of genetic selection.
Similarly, they separate the newborn calves of the mother in most farms immediately after the birth “even prevent the colostrum”, the first milk produced by the cow, of great importance to stimulate the immune system.
The number of milking differs between the farms investigated, and in some it is done up to three times a day. After giving birth and after more than two months of milking, the cows are again inseminated and the cycle starts again, says this organization to defend this animal. EFE / ECOTICIA.COM