Vinnicombe dairy farm

Thursday 15 May 2025 by

The Children of Dairy The first thing I noticed upon entering was the smell: A putrid mix of mud, feed and days-old feces. Evidently the result of the automated “sanitisation” procedure that failed to adequately remove the muck, these washings merely aerosolised the stench. I looked upon the rows of pens, filled with rows of mother cows, and considered what it would be like for them, to be forced to live with this smell every day. Does the brain eventually learn to block the smell out? Would their lives really be made any better, even if it did? The place... Read more >

Tuesday 6 May 2025 by Harley McDonald-Eckersall (editorial)

Did you know… Australian dairy cows are being factory farmed.  When many Australians think of dairy they imagine contented cows grazing on green grass in wide open paddocks. This idyllic picture has been carefully constructed through decades of marketing campaigns by the Australian dairy industry, and is fiercely guarded by industry peak body, Dairy Australia.  Over the past year, we have revealed the true reality of Australian dairy, through multiple investigations tracking the heartbreaking story of dairy cows. From the separation of newborn calves from their mothers; to the brutal slaughter of week old bobby calves and 4-6 year old... Read more >