Goat milk
People are led to believe that Goats' milk comes from happy animals on small rural farms. Well, that's what the industry wants you to believe.
Many people switch from cows' milk to goat milk because they think it's more humane. The irony is that all the problems that exist to produce cows' milk exist in goat farming, too. Mothers and kids are separated after a few days so her milk can be taken. Females are used to replenish the herd, but males can't produce milk - they are either killed at birth or kept for meat
Many people switch from cows' milk to goat milk because they think it's more humane. The irony is that all the problems that exist to produce cows' milk exist in goat farming, too. Mothers and kids are separated after a few days so her milk can be taken. Females are used to replenish the herd, but males can't produce milk - they are either killed at birth or kept for meat
Through a series of ground-breaking undercover investigations Viva! has shone a light on the rapidly expanding goat's dairy industry in the UK -- including farms that supply the UK's biggest supermarkets.
Behind the pastoral image often portrayed their exposé has found potentially illegal and other routine mutilation of baby animals, disease outbreaks, piles of dead carcasses, intensified zero-grazing farming practices and Billy goats increasingly sold for the ethnic food market. It is this intensification that has allowed the industry to surpass the production of 2 million litres a year in Britain for the first time.
In May 2012, Viva! filmed undercover at Upper Enson Farm (Britain's largest grazing goat herd) in Staffordshire, who milk around 1,800 goats for Delamere Dairies -- who supply M&S, Waitrose, The Co-op, Sainsbury's and a number of other major UK retailers. In September/October 2011, Viva! also filmed at Bromes Farm in Somerset, which farms around 1,200 zero-grazed goats and supplies Tesco.
Behind the pastoral image often portrayed their exposé has found potentially illegal and other routine mutilation of baby animals, disease outbreaks, piles of dead carcasses, intensified zero-grazing farming practices and Billy goats increasingly sold for the ethnic food market. It is this intensification that has allowed the industry to surpass the production of 2 million litres a year in Britain for the first time.
In May 2012, Viva! filmed undercover at Upper Enson Farm (Britain's largest grazing goat herd) in Staffordshire, who milk around 1,800 goats for Delamere Dairies -- who supply M&S, Waitrose, The Co-op, Sainsbury's and a number of other major UK retailers. In September/October 2011, Viva! also filmed at Bromes Farm in Somerset, which farms around 1,200 zero-grazed goats and supplies Tesco.