Making Hay
A Meat and Diary Industries Article from All-Creatures.org

All of God's creatures have rights, a fact that most people don't seem to recognize. This includes both human and non-human animals, but not all of them can speak for themselves. As we continue to disregard the value of the lives of the billions of animals we eat, we also are destroying our air, land and water.

FROM

NotMilk.com
June 2014

Because there is no rain, there is a water shortage too. There is no shortage of hamburger or filet mignon in your supermarket. Rising meat prices have yet to deter barbecue-crazed heat-stroked consumers.

Whan the sunne shinth make hay. Whiche is to say. Take time whan time cometh, lest time steale away.
- John Jeywood, 1546

California Weather: It ain't raining, it ain't pouring; agriculture's drought's a-soaring.

California dairy farmers and cattlemen are being forced to send their cattle to slaughter because they cannot afford to feed them. The cost of hay has doubled in the past few months due to a lack of rain.

In January of 2014, hay was selling for $115 per ton. In June of 2014, the cost of hay is now $230 per ton. A cow can eat 80 pounds of hay each day. That's works out to as daily cost of $9. Farmers say "That ain't hay!"

That typical cow eating $9 worth of hay produces 50 pounds of milk daily. The dairyman receives $9 for that milk. It would all work so well, if only the cows learned to milk themselves (to eliminate below minimum wage pay which dairymen get away with giving to abused illegal alien/migrant workers from Mexico and Costa Rica), but like old pups, you cannot teach dairy cows new tricks.

Because there is no rain, there is a water shortage too. There is no shortage of hamburger or filet mignon in your supermarket. Rising meat prices have yet to deter barbecue-crazed heat-stroked consumers.

Work and pray, live on hay. You'll get pie in the sky when you die.
- Joe Hill

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