This is a busy street, just outside the Ekka. Which, I now realise, is almost certainly why they are here.
I haven't been into the Ekka this year, or last year. I wonder if the vegans have much of a presence yet? Given the increase in vegan products I've been noticing in supermarkets (Coles brand smoke flavoured tofu, for example), there must be some vegan promotion in there.
Now I'm imagining late night fights there between big-hatted cow cockies and tofu stall holders.
I must go next year and find out...
1 comment:
They have a bit of a point. You really want your non-breeding males to put on weight for two years before killing them. But with modern high-input agriculture they look at all their costs, compute the calves need for milk and grass. And most of the time they decide that killing the calf is the best option. Permaculture, with mobile milking sheds and terraces means you don't have to separate the calves from their mother at the first available opportunity. You don't need to teach them to drink from a bucket or ween them early. Part of the need for early weening goes hand in hand with having to take the cows to the fixed milking shed twice a day. Plus permaculture is a situation of abundance. Not a situation of imported inputs to the farm and having to squeeze out a profit in a sea of costs. So a better system ought to be able to give these males two years of pretty happy life. But we will take their balls off pretty early sadly.
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