Pusville, California

The average Wisconsin dairy farmer milks 50 cows on 293
acres. That averages out to just under 6 acres of tranquil
grassy fields per cow.

Imagine that same farm containing 13,185 cows.

Such factory-farm density is soon to become moos for thought
in one of America's hottest places, the Mojave desert.
Holstein cows do not fare very well in heat conditions. From
June through September, the daily mean maximum temperature
in the Mojave reaches 100 degrees Fahrenheit. Each year, the
Mojave desert averages about four inches of rainfall. A cow
drinks one hundred pounds of water per day. Ninety thousand
overheated cows might drink the equivalent of Lake Erie, and
that's just on Monday.

A California developer plans to build a community dairy in
the Mojave Desert that will contain 90,000 lactating
Holsteins on 2,000 acres. If you mentioned to any farmer
worth his or her oats that you planned on putting 45 cows
per acre times 2,000, you would get a stupefied bovine
stare, followed by anger. To cheeseheads, that's nothing
less than animal abuse on an unprecedented level.

http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/5839943.htm

The new farm will produce over 2 million quarts of milk each
day, which will be added to America's enormous surplus. The
new development will become the final nail in the coffin for
Wisconsin's downwardly-spiraling dairy industry.

This single farm will produce 1.6 billion pounds of milk per
year, representing one-percent of America's entire milk
supply.

This state-of-the-art facility will inject their cows with
genetically engineered bovine growth hormones, and
antibiotic-treated cows with numbered ear tags will live
long enough to produce a pre-determined daily quota of
bovine somatotropin-treated milk. When daily production
falls below an arbitrarily determined number, the cow will
be taken off the production line and shipped to a
slaughterhouse to be instantly replaced by another milking
cow. At a cull-rate of 35%, the industry standard, an
average of 86 unhappy cows will be trucked to slaughter each
day.

The new condo-cow concept includes 600 dairy farmers each
managing 150 bovines, sharing waste-treatment facilities
that will result in the world's largest continuously
flushing toilet.

In case you were wondering, these cows will deposit twenty
million pounds of urine and excrement each day into our
already-challenged environment.

We might even get a new national park out of this one. With
apologies to Arizona's Painted Desert, Mojave's new park can
be called the "Tainted Desert."

There is no grass to graze upon in the Mojave. Let them eat
yucca? Not at all. Cows eat scientifically prepared formulas
which include fish meal, chicken feathers, and for dessert,
blood and bone meal from their sisters and brothers.
Holsteins in the desert will not see sunlight. They will be
housed in buildings with paved floors, and solar panels will
sit atop the roofs.

In 1964, I attended the World's Fair in Flushing, New York
(near Shea Stadium, where the NY Mets sometimes pretend to
play baseball). I was thrilled by the promise of future
scientific innovations. Monsanto's agricultural vision now
grows in the California desert. Sadly, we live in a world of
artificial cows who are little more than designer creatures
producing genetically modified foods for polluted human
bodies.

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