Promotion and Purchases

 So trying to explain to a hateful community why farming is not cruel will always be a challenge when they have never experienced the farming lifestyle. In every farmer’s newspapers and magazines farmers are bombarded with advertisements on how to improve their farm. How to keep cows happy.

I have included some examples below.

From these examples you can see that all the advertisements are aimed at the quality, the improvement of care for the cattle, not priced focused or deals. Farmers are not like other businessmen, they make different decisions based on morals and values not on price and profit.

One story I would like to share is we had one calf that broke a leg during birth, now a cow with a broken leg is a dead cow, it’s extremely expensive to fix, they will never be worth the price to fix, and they will die from the broken leg as it rarely heals properly. Cows fart a lot, a lot of methane, a cow can never lie down for more than 12 hours or it’s a dead cow due to all the build-up of gas. So a cow must be able to walk and feed itself otherwise it is extremely uncomfortable and just ends up suffering extremely badly before eventually dying. Sad but very rare. We had a calf born with broken leg, a business man would shoot it, it’s not worth the time and care or cost. A business man would cut a lot of corners. We paid for it to be fixed. It lived in the house, it stank. It healed and was a brilliant cow, Charlie. He was an amazing cow and healed perfectly. Only a love of a farmer would make that financial and timely sacrifice for the care of every calf. And the only person who benefits from their sacrifice is the cow. Farmers are not evil. They never will be. Farmers care.

To emphasise this point, if a human has a urine infection, they go to hospital they get emergency treatment and then have to go to their GP and go through a lengthily process to get it fixed, for blood tests and urine tests, wait for them to come back referred to hospital which can take weeks, the whole process takes a lengthily amount of time having the disease. If a farmer has cattle which he knows have something as simple as a urine infection they can get done for animal cruelty. Cattle are literally looked after in some aspects better than humans especially when it comes to health. They are treated immediately for any health issue, humans are not.

However, animal welfare is something we are proud of and need to maintain especially with brexit just around the corner, read about it here;

http://www.thescottishfarmer.co.uk/news/16071216.Animal_welfare_protections_won__39_t_survive_post_Brexit/