Question: What would be some positives for work on a dairy farm? I have a interview today. I'm just trying a new experience, think it would be fun! I have never worked on a farm though.

Answer: Depends on what kind of farm it is. There is mostly factory-farming these days, where the animals are confined.\nOn a dairy factory farm, the cows will not leave their confines, they are made pregnant artificially so they continue to generate milk. Their calves are taken away at birth and confined to crates in the dark, where they cannot even stand up, to become veal. Keeping the calves from developing muscle equals anemia, but makes the farmer more money. The colustrum (produced by the mother as super nourishment for baby calves right after they are born) is not given to the calves, it is used in other profitable products, like supplements for body builders. The females are slaughtered or kept to raise as milk machines as the older dairy cows become less productive.\nDairy cows are fed hormones to make them produce much more milk than is normal and antibiotics to keep sickness down when confined with hundreds of other animals.\nThe normal life expectancy of a dairy cow is 25-30 years. A factory farmed cow, 3-4 years and then they are hauled off to the slaughterhouse for more abuse and the torture that ends their pitiful lives. They are not free to roam in pastures, raise their young or do any of the things instinctive to cows.\nCows get mastitis and illness from being constantly milked.\nEven if this is an organic dairy farm, they have slightly better conditions, I wouldn't want this job.\nI understand you may like "working on a farm", just please understand it's not like what's portrayed on TV and fairytale books. It's big business. There ARE no happy cows, in CA or anywhere else.\nI don't think there are ANY positives to this job.
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