What would be some positives for work on a dairy farm?
Depends on what kind of farm it is. There is mostly factory-farming these days, where the animals are confined. On 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. Dairy 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. The normal life expectancy of a dairy cow is 25-30 years. A
