Fair Oaks Farms Adventure Center - America's Heartland

On our travels throughout the heartland we've visited small farms, big farms, and really big farms. But there are some that, in size anyway, simply defy classification.

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[pete359ext]

Its a very cool palce and i would recomend it to anybody if you ever in the area stop and take a look at it.

[tkellough]

@goodoldjeremy

If you do your research, you will find that people died in droves from drinking milk produced at the turn of the century, from undulant fever, bruceollosis, bangs, and cows eating poisinous weeds in pastures and woodlands. Big farms are able to cleanly process the milk, control waste, as evidenced, obtain maximum production techniques, and keep the product healthy. If you are opposed to this.....don't drink milk.

[DragonDriver100]

Nice to see they are starting to consider the feelings of bovines.

[geoffbond]

The wonder of the production line! Henry Ford would be proud. Assembly-line workers can identify perfectly with the sight of factory inmates being milked for the product of their labors.

It's so heart warming to see calves being born - and the mother cow tenderly licking them clean. Don't wonder what happens to the little calves next - after all,the mother's milk is not for them! No, they must die so that humans can drink this stuff that nature designed to build small brains and big horns...

[Operanobility]

@tibertlm Get over yourself. What do you prefer for these cows? A marguerita poolside? What good are these animals for except to do what they are doing here? They are not being hurt or abused. They get plenty to eat and are kept healthy and able to do what cows do.

[meezerlover]

Was there and visited today. I have to admit I was impressed. They seemed to have every angle worked out, from selling male calves, to placing the Heifers until they can produce milk. But somehow it was sad. These cows from birth to death were just "milk producing machines". Having claves every year to keep the milk flowing, and then when their productivity deminises they go on to be part of the "fast food chain". As long as they are treated humanely then I guess there is nothing else to say.

[tibertlm]

Very, very sad life for these imprisoned cows. I think it's just awful.

[mechybird]

but it is MUCH, MUCH better and is a model that should be followed.. until something better is achieved.

[mechybird]

all the flashiness wouldn't be necessary if it were profitable and humane.

[griffithranchnv]

Beautiful farm , well taken care of animals , still the idiots are not happy !

[Ebiczebulanious]

Does Al Gore know about this outrage?