A Revolutionary Dairy for the Future – the Ahimsa Vision – Posted in: Uncategorized

The Ahimsa dairy is Britain’s first slaughter-free dairy where no cow or bull calf is ever killed We have been working with Commonwork, a large organic farm in Kent for three years and they have bred all of our cattle We are very grateful to have been associated with them during this time but we now want to move even closer to our revolutionary vision for dairy farming in Britain Our unique system of dairy…

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Touching tale of a loving mother… – Posted in: Uncategorized

By Holly Cheever, DVM, reprinted from Action for Animals (USA) I would like to tell you a story that is as true as it is heart-breaking. When I first graduated from Cornell’s School of Veterinary Medicine, I went into a busy dairy practice in Cortland County. I became a very popular practitioner due to my gentle handling of the dairy cows. One of my clients called me one day with a puzzling mystery: his Brown Swiss…

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The future is agro-ecology – Posted in: Uncategorized

The way to a sustainable, people-centred agriculture lies in agroecology – farming based on ecological principles, taking account of the interdependence of all living things. Global grains surpluses are now so great that half of them are fed wastefully to livestock, with an increasing amount turned into biofuels. In early January, Colin Tudge and Graham Harvey launched the ‘Manifesto for a new agriculture’ at the Oxford Real Farming Conference 2014. A key theme was ‘agro-ecology’…

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Peak soil: act now or the very ground beneath us will die – Posted in: Uncategorized

Article from the Ecologist: http://www.theecologist.org/ The health of our soils is more important now than ever, says the Soil Association’s Helen Browning – especially with the challenges that climate change will bring … We are destroying soils worldwide ten times faster than nature can restore them. As a farmer, my foremost responsibility is to protect and enhance the soil in my care. It can take more than 500 years to generate an inch of…

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