The Plain City dairy farm targeted in an undercover video released by Mercy for Animals (MFA) this week responded swiftly to animal abuses depicted in the footage. A spokesman for the farm confirmed the employee prominently featured willfully abusing animals was fired immediately Wednesday morning following the video’s release. “As fourth-generation farmers, our family takes the care of our cows … Read More
These Cows are All aTwitter!
Wondering what your cows are thinking? Well, a group of Candain Holsteins is telling the world through Twitter, exactly what they are mooing about. Called “The Teat Tweet“, the project comes from the University of Waterloo’s critical media lab. You can visit this website to follow all 12 Holsteins on Twitter. “As far as we know they’re the only cows … Read More
Community Trying to Save Dairy Herd
I was surprised to read this story about a community trying to save a small dairy farm that operated on a nonprofit environmental educational center in Connecticut. New Pond Farm has sold milk and yogurt and cheese made on site from its small herd of 22 cows. Recently the board of directors decided to sell most of the herd and … Read More