Cattle

change worldwide, generating more methane gas than any other fossil fuel and carbon dioxide from cars combined. This ultimately makes it the leading cause for greenhouse emissions, causing the ozone layer to weaken leading to warming of the Earth. Cattle are producing about 150 billion gallons of methane every day through faeces, which is far more damaging to the planet than carbon dioxide. As demand for dairy is increasing, 98% of forests worldwide has already been cleared to create land for…

Amongst both sheep and cattle, there had previously been outbreaks of rotavirus. This is a virus that results in diarrhoea and intestinal issues, which can cause fatalities in young calves and lambs. This outbreak occurred because the enterprise previously had not vaccinated against rotavirus (the owners of the farm tend to limit their use of vaccines on the livestock). However, after this outbreak, stock units with the virus were culled and the enterprise now regularly vaccinates against it…

the Texas happy cows at a place called Dyer Dairy. Dyer Dairy is located on Highway 29, out east of Georgetown. They typically maintain somewhere in the neighborhood of 20 milk cows, consisting mostly of jersey, holstein, brown swiss and ayrshire cattle. Boy, do these cows have a great life! The dairy is owned and run by multi-generational…

My husband Kelvin’s grandparents lived through the Great Depression. Both his mother and father’s parents lived in the parkland area in the northern part of Saskatchewan. Between his father’s parents and his mother’s parents experience a different living situation in the north. Kevin’s grandfather, William Jr. on his mother’s side was already working and living on the homestead that his father had already established in the 1920s. This homestead was also the Little Buffalo Post Office. William…

In 2003, United States of America was a leading global exporter of beef and veal (Hanrahan & Becker, 2006, p.1). Unfortunately in that year Washington, D.C. recorded a single case of Mad Cow Disease (Hanrahan & Becker, 2006, p.1).When humans consume beef containing the disease, their brains begin to degenerate (Hanrahan & Becker, 2006). Upon the U.S. announcement of the case, Japan suspended all of its imports of U.S. beef products. It was a blow to the U.S. as she was losing the principal…

extended all the way down to Bega in southern NSW. In 1832, with two cows and two calves, John Fawkner arrived in what would become Melbourne. Ideal dairying conditions around Port Phillip Bay helped the herd to grow and within a year there were 155 cattle in the district. By 1850 there were 347,000. In 1891 there were almost one million dairy cows in Australia. The gold rush brought thousands of people to Australia. With its collapse, many were offered government pastoral leases on the…

had hogs. I say this because I have grown up around cattle only and have only handled pigs once where we were required to practice moving them at Kirkwood Community College in Cedar Rapids. I also wanted to help with harvest because I have never have gotten a lot of experience with helping at harvest since my family farm is a small acreage. Some of my goals for my experience were to get a better understanding of how pigs are moved compared to cattle and the importance of keeping them calm when…

Definition of Terms In this paper, plant-based will be used as an umbrella term for those diets which abstain from some or all animal by-products (such as veganism and vegetarianism). Veganism is the elimination of all animal by-products from consumption and vegetarianism is the elimination of all meat (including fish) from the diet with the inclusion of dairy and eggs. A pescatarian is one who abstains from all meat except for fish. Factory farming is used to describe intensive…

Cowspiracy is a documentary that focuses on the environmental issues, which are caused by animal agriculture and mainly cattle. The environment has become one of the central factors when relating it to world politics. These concerns have risen in importance over the years because of what the collective action problem has done to different parts of the world. This film also mentions non-governmental organizations, also known as NGOs, that are trying to change the way that we live in western…

Animal rights are defined as giving animals the consideration of their best interest. Weather it’s because they are “cute” or useful to the human race, and meaning that animals are not ours to manipulate. Recognizing that animals have just as much of a right to live on this planet without being threatened by humans hunting them or performing experiments on them. And it is not just wild animals, household pets and livestock are also a major part of animal rights becoming a global issue. The…