As livestock numbers grow, wild animal populations plummet. Giving all creatures a better future will take a major rethink
- Written by Clive Phillips, Adjunct Professor in Animal Welfare, Curtin University
Toa55/ShutterstockAs a teenager in the 1970s, I worked on a typical dairy farm in England. Fifty cows grazed on lush pastures for most of their long lives, each producing about 12 litres of milk daily. They were loved and cared for by two herdsmen.
About 50 years later, I visited a dairy farm in China. There, 30,000 cows lived indoors. Most of...
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