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Bobby Calf searches for mum Print E-mail
Friday, 03 April 2009
A Bobby calf is the Australian name for a male calf born into the dairy industry.
See the saddest film of a calf in search of his mother:
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Floss the fugitive granted her freedom Print E-mail
Wednesday, 01 April 2009
To see the lengths to which a cow will go to find her calf, read this story:

Floss the fugitive granted her freedom
A cow which spent nine months on the run after being destined for the abattoir will see out her days in an animal shelter. Floss the highland cow covered an estimated 60 miles and lived off council tips and stolen hay during her time as a fugitive after escaping from a farm in Goole, south Yorks, last May.
The Daily Telegraph

 
Tens of thousands of dairy calves are dying from starvation and dehydration... Print E-mail
Wednesday, 21 January 2009
Tens of thousands of baby dairy calves are dying in South Africa because - as males - they will never produce milk and are considered to be a waste product.
Just one of these calves can be seen on our video clip. At first, people think the calf's antics are funny, until they realise that the starving calf is desperate to stimulate the let-down reflex so that milk can flow and he can drink. Calves nudge the udder of their mothers with their heads in order to stimulate the let-down reflex. For the little calf in the video clip, there was no udder - nor anything else either. Compassion in World Farming (SA) thanks the Karoo Animal Protection Society for this clip. Please read the low-res version of our pdf news release 179.01 Kb on the bull calves and join our appeal to the South African Milk Processors Organisation.

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Water Footprint

On World Water Day (22nd March) and on every other day, for that matter, we need to remember that meat-eating carries a giant water footprint.
Did you know? It takes 13 million litres of water to raise and convert one cow or ox into meat!
Did you know? To produce one portion of beef (250g) requires the same amount of drinking water that one person needs (at one litre a day) for 34 years of life!
For further info, go to: http://www.waterfootprint.org/