Farms in the dairy industry in Europe are under threat of the economies of scale to be made from scaling up farming units to greater than 8,000 dairy cows.
Obviously, something is out of scale! We have seen large scale farming in the wheat industry, pigs, beef, chickens, etc. We have just experienced what scaling up can do in atomic weapons! Sure man can achieve economies of scale but just as easily achieve economies of destruction, mass destruction!
Obviously, something is out of scale! We have seen large scale farming in the wheat industry, pigs, beef, chickens, etc. We have just experienced what scaling up can do in atomic weapons! Sure man can achieve economies of scale but just as easily achieve economies of destruction, mass destruction!
Human beings are willing to treat animals with about as much respect as they really would like to treat human beings. Don't be surprised about where these trends of inhumanity to animals lead. One knows that humans that become serial killers are frequently abusers of animals. What about farmers that treat animals worse!?
Yes, it is a dog eat dog world in which the only thing stopping people from killing people is the threat of death itself, while the only thing stopping people killing animals or enslaving them is nothing at all!
http://m.guardian.co.uk/?id=102202&story=http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/sep/22/farmers-cow-super-dairy
http://m.guardian.co.uk/?id=102202&story=http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/sep/22/farmers-cow-super-dairy
