WSPA Cow Dance at Glastonbury

WSPA have just returned from Glastonbury Festival to celebrate this spring's turning out of the cows -- have you seen a Cow Dance?

After a winter spent indoors, cows in farms across Europe are let back out into their summer pastures. WSPA are proud to promote the benefits of high welfare, pasture-based dairy farming for cows, farmers, the environment and consumers. Since 2010 WSPA have lobbied against mega-dairies proposals across the UK through the Not in My Cuppa campaign. These mega-dairies would house large numbers of cows indoors with limited or no access to the outside, or ability to express their natural behaviour. When cows are allowed the freedom to roam and graze, they can socialise naturally, enjoy better health, and eat the grass they are supposed to. Grazing on pasture also provides beneficial enrichment on the vitamin and fatty acid content of the cows' milk.

The cows' reaction to returning to pasture should make it clearer than ever to farmers, retailers and consumers alike that pasture-based, high welfare farming is not just a British tradition, but a vital part of the future of dairy and our countryside.

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  Film & Animation

[Roger Brenton]

A wonderfully English scene. Cows belong in fields not sheds. Thank heavens farmers believe this too.

[fog5]

I like how this John the cow man says moosic

[Seeker4Peace]

Our cows in Missouri are free range year round. I love to go visiting them in the field near me.

[RSfucker]

I've never seen a cow dance, and it seems I'm not going to see it today. Video called Cow Dance - where's the DANCE? I support your ideas, but this is a terrible bit of branding.

[Katariina R.]

that makes me happy too!!

[transPlanko]

a really nice part of the world and good to see it in its natural habitat!

[alex welsh]

Are they Ayrshire cattle?

[Paul Challis]

Is it exciting? :)

[natija08]

Only a few, because it means more work for the farmer.

[ladyofhovepark]

Why are all the bones sticking out on the cows backs and sides and all their ribs sticking out? They look horrendously thin. Cows didn't use to look like this at all.