Farms: Intensive cattle farming indoors & free range milk (UK) - BBC - 3rd April 2016

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1. I have pretty much stopped drinking and buying dairy milk. It is not good.for my osteo arthritis. The entire milk consumption should be questioned and just like with meat consumption iit should become a luxury, not a daily staple. I consider it unlawful to deny a cow her pasture, especially when her calves are being ripped off her right after birth!
2. Cattle feet prove that they are not designed to be reared on concrete floors; rather on grass and soil. Concrete floors mean increases in foot problems higher disease transfer and of course an earlier death.
   Farming needs to revert back to what the land and its animals are capable of producing without farmers abusing the land and its animals.
3. fucking dik
4. the farmer with 1700 cows thats whats putting other farms who want to keep there cows properly out of business
5. the cow s look s healty . believe me if the cow do not have so good care they don't give so much milk.and why have housing cow more milk then grazing cow because they are hapier. this animal are breading to have a lot milk and for this they need special care and nutrition.
   Leo if you don't now life is a beach and we still live in a competitive world. and this cow have a bad or good luck depens how you look. if we don't have a farm this cow don't exist .
   
   all they all going to die and you and me to. but they have a purpose for us to give milk and meat for exchange for food care and protect from an other predators.
6. What a stupid investigation. You didn't even look at the price of grass versus the price of feed concentrates. Sure you produce more milk on concentrates but you pay a heck a lot more more for it.
7. I believe Neil has an exemplary farm, it was clean, the cows well taken care of, I am from a large rural mid-west section of the United States, and believe me cows will be standing in muck and wet fields often enough and thus dirty.  But they are magnificent creatures, nosy with different personalities.  Is free range better for the animals, I don't see much difference, with 1,700 cows Neil would have to have huge amounts of grazing fields, which will increase his cost.  I am just for the humane treatment of animals.  As for the consumer, free range will mean nothing if the cow continue to be fed Monsanto corn which is genetically modified, that is what will be the undoing of consumers and the undoing of generations to come.  As we educate ourselves by watching documentaries, each should be accompanied with GMO to farm to seeds to corn to animals to  family.
8. "I don't think it matters whether cows are in a barn or outside, cows don't some imagination of where they want to live" These types of statements outlines everything that is wrong with the attitudes of the people running the meat and dairy industries. They are outdoor animals by nature who like to graze on open pastures and engage in natural behaviors. Furthermore in no way is anyone justified to say the cows are happy living a life that has been forced on them because of our desire to use them for food and whose to say a mammal doesn't have an idea or preference of where they'd rather be. That's just humans dictatorship. I'd challenge you to prove your opinion by taking down all the fences, restraints and perimeters around your farm to see where the cows prefer to go. The dairy industry is a grotesque industry cows being kept and exploited for such a trivial food item which is little more than a convenience, this video is just propaganda and this not in any way representative of most dairy farms.
9. but what happen to the calfs?
10. thanks