1. Products from cattle
2. Factory farming and transport of
living animals
3. Cattle breeds in Austria
4. BSE and the AMA Gütesiegel
5. Different ways of keeping cattle
By Julia, Cathrin, Sarah and Alexandra
Products from the cattle
We use products from cattle every day. For example: cheese, meat, milk,
yogurt, butter, steak, veal.
Some things like shoes are also made out of products from the cattle.
Shoes or bags are made out of leather.
In meat products there are many ingredients. For example: admixtures,
spices for the barbecue or preservatives.
Farming:
Years ago the farmers milked the cattle
by hand but today they use a milking machine.
C ompos ition from the milk
Water
milk sugar
fat
minerals and
vitamins
Factory farming
Pros and cons of the factory farming:
Pros:
We get many important products from the cattle, for
example meat, milk, butter and many others. Only
because of factory farming it is possible that humans
can eat so much meat and milk products every day.
The reason is that there are many farms that are
doing factory farming and it is cheaper, because
more gets produced.
Cons:
The animals get afflicted by diseases. They live in
small cages and don’t have much room. Sometimes
they even can’t move very much. Often there are
also corpses in the cages. The meat, milk, etc. has
more medicines in it. The meat of the free range
farming cattle is not as cheap as the meat and the
milk of the factory farming.
Factory farming
Transport of living animals:
The transport is very stressful for the animals. It’s often
very dark in the transporter and they stand very close to
each other so they don’t have much space. Sometimes
they are standing in transporters for many days.
Life of cattle in factory farming:
Animals in the factory farms don’t have much space and
can’t really move. When the animals in the factory farms
are kept so near to each other that the risk of infections
is very high. If one gets sick or has an infection, it will
spread very fast and many animals get sick. Therefore
there is always a vet nearby.
http://www.animalslavery.net/img/SickCattle.jpg
http://www.all-creatures.org/anex/cattle-trans-01.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1c/Confined-animal-feedingoperation.jpg
http://advocacy.britannica.com/blog/advocacy/wp-content/uploads/vealcalves.jpg
Cattle breeds in Austria
There are many different cattle breeds in Austria. For example:
Charolais – most important breed for meat
Simmentaler – used for meat
Ennstaler Bergschecken – used for farm work
Schwarzbunte – most for milk products
http://images.google.at/imgres?imgurl=http://upload.wik
imedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a6/Simmentaler_Flec
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http://www.hofgutrehbachtal.de/media/Charolais_Rinder/Charolais_Rind.jpg
BSE and the AMA Gütesiegel
The AMA Gütesiegel stands for “AgrarMarkt Austria”. It stands for good quality
from Austria. The cows can walk around and live on the meadow for the whole
summer.
BSE stands for Bovine spongioforme Enzephalopathie.
Humans can‘t catch BSE but can get the disease Creutzfeld-Jakob sickness.
This illness attacks the nerves.
A human being can get it when he eats a lot of beef from a cow with BSE.
www.land-oberoesterreich.gv.at/cps/rde/xber/guetesiegel_ama
Different ways of keeping cattle
There are 4 different ways for keeping cattle.
1) Free-Range. This is the best because they are on the meadow for the
whole summer. In the winter they are inside.
The next is the indoor breeding. There the people try to keep them like in freerange. The cows have enough space and can move around.
One is also the intensive breeding. The cattles are close together in the stable.
When a baby is born the farmers give them so much to eat that when they are
12 weeks old their weight is 200kg.
The fourth is the factory farming. There they have the doctors around them
because this is not healthy. Here the cows can get sick very fast. It’s the worst
for cows. The people aren‘t cleaning the room and don’t feed them. This is
made by the machines.
www.homestoymountview.com/images/Dairy