Dairy Herds Slaughtered As Drought Worsens
AUSTRALIA - Dairy cows are being slaughtered in their thousands every week in Victoria's major milk production areas, the Murray and Goulburn Valleys.
15 October 2007
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With fodder prices at a record high, few can afford to buy in feed.
Co-ordinator of the Sponsor A Cow Charity, Bob Holschier, estimates 60 per cent of the cattle being slaughtered at the Tongala abattoir are dairy cows.
"Three and a half thousand dairy cows each week, not monthly or anything, each week three and a half thousand cows are being slaughtered," he says.
Source: ABC Online
