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...“They went to one farm . . . and this farm just happened to be a bad farm . . . now they’ve made it look like all us dairy farmers abuse our cows, rip ’em away from their calves, without actually stating...
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...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on July 23. ©2022 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...It is a surprising turn from decades past when veggie burgers and tofu were sold in health stores and given virtuous-sounding brand names like Gardenburger or Morningstar Farms....
...Having survived avian influenza and mad cow disease and kept African swine fever out of the country, the US meat industry is no stranger to deadly animal epidemics....
...“It’s like when you want to drink milk — but you not only need to own a whole farm, and learn how to breed dairy cows, and you have to build barns, fences, as well as grow hay, all by yourselves.”...
...Among more affluent and health conscious meat and dairy eaters, there is a craze for traceability — knowing from exactly which farm your cheese or sausages came....
...He also cited customer demand for yoghurt that was non-GMO, which reaches into the supply of grain used for cow feed....
...At Zeeland Farm Services, a grain processor on Michigan’s western flank, farm trucks arrive with an increasingly familiar load: soyabeans free of bioengineering....
...The main design element, Damien Hirst’s formaldehyde-filled tank ‘Cock and Bull’, featuring a cow and a cockerel, reflects the menu....
...Following his arrival in New York City in 1994 to study English, he hankered after country life so he took a job on a farm in upstate New York....
...The company purchased an unused farm in Ogun state, 60km north of Lagos, as part of a $3m investment to build a feed yard, abattoir, processing plant and a freezer room....
...Their sperm is collected, analysed, processed into “straws”, frozen in liquid nitrogen and exported to dairy farms in 43 countries....
...It has 8 per cent of its assets in Americas Petrogas, which has a shale farm-out deal with Exxon, and some 5 per cent in other junior companies, and sees 2012 as “an inflection year for Argentina’s oil and...
...The time of the fat cows, as some Spaniards call it, feels long gone. Economic growth, as measured by gross domestic product, came in at just 0.2 per cent in the second quarter....
...Large-scale farms, with more than 1,000 cows, supply just 7 per cent of the total, compared with nearly half in the US....
...The budget would also seek to reform farm subsidies....
...Tomoe Unuma, who grows rice with her husband on a farm just 2km from the plant and was forced to abandon 40 cows when they were evacuated, sees no chance of consumers buying produce from the area....
...Tidjane Thiam, chief executive, has abandoned his bet-the-farm expansion strategy in favour of the more prosaic, but reassuring, milk-the-(cash)cow one that has served Prudential well....
...One reason may be boredom or stress; playing online farm games is presumably fun and relaxing (as the estimated 56 million social gamers in the US alone would undoubtedly point out)....
...A simple life, alongside the cows and ostriches and hares? But no. I love London; I enjoy my job; I like most of my clients and count two as good friends....
...Mr Rosslenbroich is particularly enthusiastic about agriculture, where he says Aquila has “teams travelling the world looking for farms”, with New Zealand dairy farms a speciality....
...He left school at 14 and borrowed £100 to dig a hole in his parent’s farm to create his first gravel pit....
...Amid Saudi Arabia’s vast desert tracts, Almarai extracts 674m litres of milk a year from about 55,000 mottled, black-and-white Holstein cows, which are kept comfortable in the often sweltering Middle East...
...Mr Wright says: “Saving in cows is normal in many places. This has a higher return, but there is a risk factor involved and people really want straightforward security.”...
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